Do you want to meet New Found Glory? If so, read on.
We are happy to be one of the sponsors of this weekend's Radio 104.5 Winter Jam at the Piazza at Schmidt's (North 2nd Street and Germantown Avenue) here in Philadelphia. It's a free outdoor festival featuring the Winter X Games on the jumbotron, a Miller Lite Beer Garden, giveaways and a free concert by New Found Glory.
We are sponsoring an after party at North Bowl (909 N. 2nd Street) where there will be an exclusive meet and greet with New Found Glory. The Winter Jam takes place this Saturday from 12:00 - 5:00 with the meet and greet happening from 5:30 - 7:30.
For a chance to win a pass for you and a friend to attend the party at North Bowl, please email us at admin@mitchellandness.com and include the words NEW FOUND GLORY in the subject line of your email. We will take entries until 4:30 PM today when we will pick the winner at random. We will contact the winner by 5:00 this afternoon. The winner must present a valid ID at the Radio 104.5 tent between 12:00 - 5:00 on Saturday.
For more info on the Winter Jam click here.
Good luck!
The NBA Back Screen Tee
The first of our 2012 NBA apparel styles has hit and is now available at mitchellandness.com.
Each team has garment washed and heathered cotton/poly body with white sleeve insets on the arm. All team logos are non-distressed screenprints allowing the team colors to jump off the garment. This tee is only available in NBA and quanitites are limited so be sure to grab yours before they are gone!
The Locker Room Twill Jacket is one the first styles to arrive for Spring 2012! This style is available in MLB & NHL teams.
This is a tailored piece that is 100% cotton twill body and full lined with patch pockets with side entry & button flap.
Foam fingers. Don't deny it, you love them. And you love the added enjoyment they bring as you wave them in support of your team one second, then harmlessly hit your friends over the head with them the next. Who was the inventor of this cushy oversized hand? In 1978, a high school teacher named Geral Fauss taught Industrial Arts at Cypress Fairbanks ISD in Cypress, Texas. It seemed his love for sports, design, and illustration merged together nicely with his desire to support his school's football team. Fauss invented the 'Number 1' finger to help raise funds for his Industrial Arts club and as a project his class could produce themselves. He made 400 fingers for his school's football team's championship game. All 400 sold out. The first prototype of the 'Number 1' finger was made of plywood and is pictured in the above photo with Fauss.
Fauss decided to test-market his product at the 1978 Cotton Bowl between Texas and Notre Dame. He made (by hand) hundreds of heavy Masonite "Texas #1" hands and lugged them to the Cotton Bowl. In less than thirty minutes after he arrived to the game, they were all sold. His idea was an instant success! Fauss and a few employees began working out of his father's abandoned sheet-metal factory and pretty soon Spirit Hand Novelties, Inc. was born. If Fauss was going to mass produce these fingers, the one obstacle he had to overcome was the weight of the wooden fingers. Fauss experimented with other lighter weight materials such as Styrofoam, however, he quickly learned that although Styrofoam was lightweight, it was too fragile. The 'foam' fingers were eventually made of polyurethane foam in 1979.
Photo below shows early 'Number 1' prototypes of foam hands, ca.1979.
we were happy to have a visit from former Philadelphia Eagle, NFL coach and current ESPN analyst Herman Edwards. He's a legend around here because of this.
He was nice enough to sign one of his jerseys and a football for us to display in the store.
Thanks for stopping by Herm, and thanks for the great Eagles memories.