After many years of saying he wanted to do it and never quite making it out to Tempe, Sports Illustrated NFL writer Peter King is finally taking part in Pat's Run later this month. And with it comes a little something extra the night before.
(It's all right within his column that also has King too thinking Carson Palmer-to-Arizona will happen, which makes sense to me in some way, shape or form.)
King will be hosting a super-sized Tweetup Friday night, April 19th, at Tom's Tavern downtown. King has hosted a handful of Tweetups before (for the Twitter non-initiated, a Tweetup is a gathering set up with Twitter followers), most notably at the Scouting combine in Indianapolis the past few years. King wanted to do a Tweetup to somehow benefit the Pat Tillman Foundation if he was going to come out and run the race. The Cardinals are helping him do that.
King's goal is to raise enough money to fund a Tillman Foundation scholarship. Tickets for the event are $40 -- space is limited to 250 people -- but it has an impressive lineup of Tweetup events:
-- Food: Happy hour & carb-loading (pasta) stations -- Two drink tickets — redeemable for house wine & draft beer (other drink options available for purchase w proceeds benefiting Pat Tillman Foundation) -- Football discussion/Q&A moderated by King with Cardinals President Michael Bidwill, new GM Steve Keim and new head coach Bruce Arians -- Cardinals cheerleaders & Big Red to attend plus cameos from Cardinals players (Who exactly is still TBD) -- Auction items/raffles to benefit the Pat Tillman Foundation.
The Tweetup will be from 5-7 p.m. Got to get to bed early for the 7 a.m. race, right? (I'll be running. Will you?)
Tickets go on sale this morning via phone (602) 379-0102 and at both Cardinals box office locations in Tempe and Glendale, with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to the Pat Tillman Foundation. With phone orders through April 6th, tickets can be mailed out. After that, tickets must be picked up at a box office prior to 3 p.m. on April 19th.
If you want to follow Peter on Twitter, he's at @SI_PeterKing. You can follow me at @cardschatter, and the team account is @AzCardinals. And if you want to take part in this Tweetup -- whether you are on Twitter or not, if you are running in Pat's Run or not, make the call. http://blog.azcardinals.com/2013/04/01/tweetup-with-peter-king-the-cardinals-and-pats-run/kingtweetuse/
