Archive for March, 2010
Media Day a Success!
Offensive Drive
Roanoke Rampage Fire and Police Football Team’s 2010 Media Day/Scrimmage was a HUGE Success!
The team started the day with individual and team pictures and then the team split into Offensive vs. Defensive Scrimmage. Offensive in maroon and Defensive in white. Today was our first test to prepare for our opening home game April 3, 2010 against Carolina Commanders! The Offense and Defense have some work to do but overall just walking on the field today in full uniform was a WIN! Today, one of players was injured with a dislocated elbow, he was transported by Salem Fire-EMS to CRMH but is now at home doing well!
Special thanks to Retired Lieutenant Mike Overacker, Roanoke Fire-EMS for his exceptional photography work. He captured our team at their best. Thanks Mike!
Additional pictures are posted on our facebook fan page: Roanoke Rampage Fire and Police Football Team!
Media Day
Roanoke Rampage Fire and Police football Media day will start tomorrow at 9am.
All players are Required to be there.
9.00 to 9.30 Team Business meeting
9.30 to 10.00 Hand out Game uniforms
10.00 to 10.45 Team Pictures, Talk with any media
11.00 till 12.30 Scrimmage and team Practice.
Rampage Wives and Significant Others
Saturday’s scrimmage is to insure that things are going smoothly…that being said…Marci will need the wives/significant others to help with various projects from selling tickets, shirts, media guides, 50/50 tickets and more. She will be at Saturday’s scrimmage so make sure your wife or significant other gets with her if they are interested in helping at the 4/3 game….if possible have them send an email to her at toddnmarci1@juno.com
Look forward to seeing everyone Saturday,
Todd
Media Day
Roanoke Rampage Fire and Police Football teams Media day will be here soon. I need some help!!! I will be out of town till Thursday the 18 th. I need some players to make some contacts this week. All media will need to be at Salem Stadium at 9.30. ALL FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND STAFF NEED TO BE THERE BY 9AM! Thanks Todd
Please post who can do what.
Contact :
Vinton News Paper
Salem News Paper
Blacksburg News paper
Virginia Tech Student paper?
Public access channel
any other media that i have forgot??
I have Emailed the following:
Roanoke times
Wsls 10
wdbj 7
Virginia fire news.
Football’s for practice were left at station 6, if someone can get them to practice on monday. Thanks See you at the end of the week ,Todd.
Airline
All talks with the airlines have failed! Allegiant Air in 1 week has doubled their quote for airline tickets. Delta is more than that with connecting flights and getting into Orlando late at night, and limited seats per flight. After talking to some travel experts, I have found out that Allegiant is full of hidden cost and have had 170 complaints to the BBB in the last 3 months. At this point, I am not sure what to do. The league requires us to fly to one game in our probationary year. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at the end of the rope here!!!
WHO WOULD THOUGHT PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR CHARITY WOULD BE SO HARD!!!!!!
Football Practice
Football practice is on for tonight. It may be a short and wet one,but we will practice. Practice at washington park at 6pm Todd
Rampage Playbook
Offensive and defensive playbook e-mailed tonight. If you did not get it please let me know. STUDY UP!!!
Rampage Charity!
The Roanoke Rampage Fire and police Football team will be playing football for charity. This years charity will be Steps 4 Billy. We were able to have lunch with Billy’s Sister Alice Obenchain-Leeson today to work out the details. All proceeds made at the gate will be donated to this noble cause!!
William E. (Billy) Obenchain, Jr. was a devoted Christian, husband, father, “pops”, son, brother, firefighter, and committed friend to many. Also, he was a career firefighter, who retired from the Roanoke City Fire Department in Roanoke, VA in 2007, and he faithfully served the Town of Vinton, VA as councilman for 16+ years, having been vice mayor for several years. Every single day for 9 years, he endured a rare form of lymphoma – Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (e.g., CTCL) – that has no known cure. After a long, determined fight against the disease, Billy left us for his Eternal Home in Heaven on December 23, 2009.
During his illness, he was under the watchful eye and stellar care of one of the premier specialists in this disease, Dr. Elise Olsen of Duke Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Rosenoff of Blue Ridge Cancer Center in Roanoke Virginia. Billy also traveled, at the request of Merck Pharmaceuticals, to help scientists, researchers and others involved in drug creation to understand the plight of the CTCL patient.
It was through the grace of Our God, and the wonderful work of his doctors that he lived and loved for 9 years.
Simply, Steps 4 Billy was created in August 2009 because CTCL is so rare, by comparison to the incidence of other forms of lymphoma. Few people know about the disease. Few know of the terrible toll the disease has on those affected. Few know what it’s like to watch someone suffer with this disease. Sure, there are pockets of people, all over the internet, all over the world, who know about the disease. But compared to other more common cancers, this disease is mostly unknown. As a result, this disease gets comparatively less research funding, and less coverage in the media.
The vision for Steps 4 Billy is that it will grow into a full blown, non-profit organization, with numerous annual activities dedicated to: 1) educating citizens and organizations in the Greater Roanoke Valley and Commonwealth of Virginia about CTCL, and
2) raising funds for CTCL research, treatment and patient care.
The Duke CTCL Fund
C/O Dr. Elise Olsen
(Steps 4 Billy)
Box 3294 DUMC
Durham, NC 27710
All donations are tax deductible and all contributions go directly to support Cutaneous Lymphoma research and patient care activities under Dr. Olsen’s direction.
Safety Sponsor
ARRINGTON SPORTS & AWARDS
140 Franklin St
Rocky Mount, Va 24151
(540)489-1200
The Roanoke Rampage Fire and Police Football team would like to thank Arrington Sports and Awards for their Safety Sponsorship. Call John and Sue for all your Engraving, Trophies, Plaques ,Embroidery and Screen printing needs! Johnny Arrington is a 1st Lt with the Roanoke Fire -EMS department assigned to Ladder 2 B-Shift. Special thanks to Brad Harris for obtaining this sponsor.
Football Practice Tonight
Football Practice at Washington park football field at 6pm. We will be in Full pads and will be working on offensive plays and kicking game. See Ya on the Field!!!
