The Ramblin' Reck needs your financial support -- The Road to Miami Begins!
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 22, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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Dear Ramblin' Reck fans, friends, and family members,
After almost a month of waiting, I finally heard good news yesterday regarding the Orange Bowl. The Ramblin' Reck will be leading the team onto the field on January 5th! You can have the opportunity to be a part of making history happen! When the Reck first arrived on campus in 1961, it mainly traveled long distances by freight train. This was because there were strong relationships between the train companies and the administration and the Ramblin' Reck Club at the time. As times change, so do transportation modes. Today, the Reck travels by covered trailer and it is pulled by rental truck. The successful 2009 football season has proven to be costly for the finances of the Ramblin' Reck. As many of you know already, the Ramblin' Reck makes its money solely from appearances. It receives no money from the Athletic or Alumni Associations and is maintained on behalf of the student body solely by the Ramblin' Reck Club who is also responsible for making sure the Reck gets to where it needs to be. The Reck needed to be in Tampa for our first outright ACC Championship since 1990, and the Reck must be in Miami for our first Orange Bowl appearance since 1967 and our first BCS bowl game ever. We need your financial support to help get it there.
Transporting the Ramblin' Reck is costly. Currently, the Driver must find a rental truck big enough to tow the Reck in its trailer. The Class of 1984 generously donated the funds to purchase a truck that can tow the trailered Reck properly, but it is not scheduled to arrive on campus until later this spring. The cost to rent a truck for the Orange Bowl is $1,000 plus gas, an amount that will take a significant chunk out of the Reck's finances. We are asking you to help get the Ramblin' Reck, our mascot, to Miami and to the Orange Bowl. It has been years since the car has made trips of great distance to fulfill its duty of leading the team onto the field, and the account has not been properly prepared for such a venture.
We are asking for your donations, every little bit will help alleviate the burden of transporting the Ramblin' Reck. You may wonder what you will get for your donation. For every $25 you give to the Ramblin' Reck, you will have your name entered in a drawing to have a day with the Ramblin' Reck. Your prize will include a private tour for two around campus and a provided picnic on one of Georgia Tech's lawns . I have discussed this with the 2010 Rambln' Reck Driver, and he assures me that he will work closely with the winner to make this a memorable afternoon on campus!
The deadline for the drawing is December 31. If you're sending a check, it must be postmarked by that date. (although, we'll accept your donations of any amount before or after that date!)
There are two ways you can give money to help get the Ramblin' Reck to Miami. The first is through PayPal. Simply send a transfer to RamblinWreckDriver@gmail.com (or click here) and your money will go directly to the account created by the Ramblin' Reck Club for the Ramblin' Reck. The second method is through check. Please make checks payable to: Ramblin' Reck Club and send to: Ramblin' Reck Driver, 329912 Georgia Tech Station, Atlanta, GA 30332. Your checks will go directly to the 2010 Ramblin' Reck Driver where they will be deposited directly into the account for the Ramblin' Reck.
Many of you who read this site know me professionally and personally. The Ramblin' Reck is a piece of Georgia Tech history which I have given my all to protect and secure this full year of 2009. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to e-mail directly. My full name is Winfield Tufts. I am a 5th year ISyE major who will graduate from Georgia Tech in May. You shouldn't have any trouble finding out who I am now.
Please forward this information on to alumni, message boards and all Georgia Tech Fans!
Sincerely,
Winfield Tufts, 2009 Ramblin' Reck Driver
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From your favorite Nole. Go kick some ass for the ACC.
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." - General George S. Patton
Go Jackets!
The game wouldn’t be the same without the Reck. I still don’t know if I can make it to the game but I’d gladly give up some of my travel funds to get our beloved mascot there. Good luck collecting the donations!
Also, NoleCC: You are officially the most awesome FSU fan I’ve ever come across!
by Yellow Jackette on Dec 22, 2009 8:27 AM EST reply actions
any cheerleaders ever fallen off while it blasts onto the field?
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Dec 22, 2009 9:42 AM EST reply actions
Give and give now. This is our time on the big stage, so step up. I'm proud to give, wish I could give more (like a fully loaded Freightliner in Old Gold and White with a custom trailer, 105 inch plasma, keg cooler, and BBQ Pit)
It would be as big a crock as the ACC Championship at the Gator Bowl if they didn’t let the Reck on the field.
If it was U(sic)GA VIII (or whatever “Super Bowl number” they give him} they’d let him lick his privates at the 50 yard line and all the U(sic)GA fans would scream,
“….I wish I could do that….”
to which their tailgate buddies would say
“…That Dog would BITE YOU…”
Compliments to a great U(sic)GA Journalism Graduate and AJC writer, Lewis Grizzard-we miss you Lewis, even if you went to the wrong school -you ONLY wore sock when you had to see the Dean or go to a funeral.
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Dec 22, 2009 11:32 AM EST reply actions
You should tie some empty Budwieser cans to the rear bumper.
Add a touch of class to the jalopy.
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Dec 22, 2009 12:49 PM EST reply actions
Classiest 80 Year Old Mascot in College Football
Who needs beer cans when we have 6 to 9 pretty ladies hanging on for dear life in short skirts. Better now than when The Hammer (Henry Ford and Edsel) designed the car.
Smokey-Firearms are great on the sidelines (see WV), but if I hear Rocky Top one more time I’m sticking an ice pick in my ear…
U(sic)GA-A/C doghouse with lucite door. Licks his privates. Lundquist and Danielson have to fill time while he grooms the jewels.
Ralphie-Frat boys trying NOT to get run down by a GIRL Bison?
Bevo-Does he ever move outside of that fence?
Mike the Tiger-OK you got me there. Just let him roam around before the game.
NCSU Wolfpack-see Mike the Tiger. Eat what you kill.
? the Tiger at Clemson-Lots of pretty girls RUB THE ROCK, but still a foam Tiger.
War Eagle-Auburn or Georgia Southern-now that’s classy…
Bama-I expect to see an elephant (not Cody) or some sort of Wave (and I hate the Wave). What is that thing that Corso wears on Gameday, and elephant head?
MSU- Cowbells rung by pretty ladies in short skirts, even their Mommas look good.
Gators-Tim TeBooHoo must be their mascot from here on out.
Demon Deacons, Cavaliers, Ramses (sp?), Cornhusker Boy, Blue Devil, Hairy Dog? Any human in a foam outfit (except Buzz who invented the art) reminds me of Letterman’s Velcro wall or inflatable Sumo Wrestling. Disturbing.
Renegade-now that’s cool. I want a flaming spear! When they had the ACC Championship in Jacksonville (worst football game I’ve ever paid to see-nothing but field goals), they couldn’t send Renegade, so they sent a Cheerleader. She won-EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING.
VA Tech-A Turkey?
USC-THE BEST bumper sticker “I’m A Cock Donor”. or “USC, their TROJANS can’t hold our COCKS”. Cockabooses are cool and so is 2001, but until they put two gamecocks with razors in a pit pre-game at the 50 I’m not putting them in CLASSY MASCOT land.
Who am I missing?
By the way, you can rent the Reck for a wedding and I bet they’d let you tie beer cans and boots to the bumper.
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Dec 23, 2009 8:52 PM EST up reply actions
If I'm flying from Texas...
for the game, you’d better believe I want to see the Reck while I’m in Miami. Donation sent.
It's a car
drive it, it won’t cost that much
by ChryslerKinnick on Dec 22, 2009 4:30 PM EST reply actions
it'd probably
take 2 days to get there, too.
You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.
Bottom picture
That pic of the wreck on the bottom is awesome. The file is really small off here though. Is it possible to get the original file sent to me?
Donation sent
Is there a way to earmark funds for booze and/or titty bars?
A bullhorn, a bottle of whiskey and a dream. GobblerCountry.com
by furrer4heisman on Dec 23, 2009 12:32 PM EST reply actions
No, but
I can give you my Pay Pal account name and you can make titty bar donations there… I’ll be sure that everyone shares in the fun.
hahaha
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 24, 2009 12:38 AM EST up reply actions
Why ask for money just to get it to Urnge bowl?
Did you ask your competition to rebuild it when it was wrecked?
We wouldnt' take money from our competition to handle the rebuild.
That would be like the Seilers (and I really like the Seilers) asking me to hold the stud and the bitch while they procreated U(sic) the IIIX. Fans do what we do for our school, and unless in extremis (Bobby Bowden putting Crosses on the Helmets of the WV players post Marshall crash) we don’t ask for help from others. That thing in "WE ARE MARSHALL still gets me-as does the whole movie.
We the fans who “Drink our Whisky clear” have jobs, Many of us own big portfolios and run companies, and I think we can come up with $2,000 on our own to get OUR MASCOT properly transported to Miami for National Coverage and a rally point for our fans.
If you would like to give “Little E”, we would be glad to have your money, and I’d assume that you may not be a GT fan (don’t know for sure), but if you gave (or even if you didn’t) we’d be glad to share our hospitality with you in Miami since we only have 3 or 4 more days of College Football before the whole world crashes until Signing Day, Spring Games, and 1st kickoff.
Bienvenido a Miami
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Dec 27, 2009 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
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