Monday September 22nd - Big DUCK Week

IT'S A BIG WEEK HERE AT DUCK FIABETES CENTRAL! Two big events this week and one of them has me nervous as all get out. On Wednesday afternoon, the ADA will be hosting a Kick Off Event at the American Airlines Center. We are taking some core members down to the event, as I've been asked to speak about our methods of fund raising and about DUCK Fiabetes in general. NERVOUS... but I'll make sure there is some video from the event so you can all continue to laugh at our expense.

Sunday is the big DUCK SPLASH 2008 at Grapevine Mills Mall. We still have 15 tickets left to sell, so I'm getting a little nervous. I need this to sell out in hopes that we'll raise the maximium amount for the charity. If anybody out there is still thinking about attending... I'd really appreciate you letting me know today! (See earlier blogs for invite information).

Thanks... keep waddling.

September 13th - Official DUCK SPLASH 2008 Flyer

Don't forget that this event is coming up in just 2 weeks! I know that this event will conflict with a 3:30 Cowboys game... which is unfortunately unavoidable. I requested Jerry ask for a change in the game time but got no response from my email.

So, to make up for this scheduling trouble, Jeff has graciously offered to TIVO the game for us, and show the game after the event on the big 62" TV. We'll cook out some hot dogs and cheeseburgers during the game in order to ease your pain.

September 7th - OUTING ANNOUNCEMENT - Duck Riders in Grapevine

As many of you are undoubtedly getting ready for this afternoon's Cowboys game, I wanted to take a quick second and make inform everybody about our newest DUCK Fiabetes Outing.

What:
Grapevine's Amphibious Duck Tours
A tour around Grapevine and Lake Grapevine in a WWII Amphibious vehicle

When:
Sunday September 28th @ 4:00 pm

Where:
Grapevine Mills

Cost:
Members: $15.00
Non-Members: $18.00
(Tickets are usually $21.00 + tax)

Tickets:
There are currently 25 tickets available.
You can contact me, or any team member about tickets for more information.
Please pay with either cash or check. Contact me if you wish to pay via credit card.
Make checks out to: American Diabetes Association with "Step Out / Duck Fiabetes" on memo.

We are going to use this as a means to raise as much money as we can for the DUCK Fiabetes team, so I'm hoping that everybody on our team will (1) choose to attend and (2) get one or two non-members to come along with us.

It's my hope that every one of our team members will decide to come along, as I would also like to use this opportunity to get a couple team photo's for the website. I've also notified some local media outlets that we are going to be having this event, as well as the local ADA and I'm hoping that we can get alot of attention for our cause.

Don't forget to get your tee shirts and sell tee shirts to all the people planning on coming. How fantastic would it be to have a full boat of yellow shirts for the event!

I'll keep a note on the website up to date with the number of tickets available at that time.

September 2nd - The Gordon Keith Show Video

Well... for those of you that didn't stay up all night Saturday sitting by WFAA Channel 8 patiently waiting for the football game to get done, then the news to wrap up, and then uncomfortably watching "Entertainment Tonight" just to get to this 5 minute (?) clip of me at the Gordon Keith show... here you go.

I'm waiting for Jeff to get a clip together of the brief introduction Gordon gave us and the shot of all 6 of us in the audience which I'll post next.

August 28th - DUCK Fiabetes Does Gordon Keith

by Brad Koettel - Team Captain of DUCK Fiabetes


Tonight was out first big outing, and most of you won't even know about it until Saturday. As we mentioned earlier... we went down to the weekly taping of The Gordon Keith show, and we decided to make a little "Team Event" out of it. So we jumped in the car, drove past the Cowboys final pre-season game, turned off the Democratic National Convention, and headed down to see Gordon Keith entertain us for an hour or so.

For more pictures... you can click on the slideshow on the right or just click here!

Everybody really enjoyed the show, but we are all curious if it wasn't because of the $5 you call it tequila margaritas we had before the show. Now I know the show is funny, but if Gordon sent everybody in there for a drink before the show - maybe all the audiences would be as rowdy as we were. (yes you heard it right - $5 you call it margs. Patron Margs = $5. Cabo Wabo Margs = $5. If I would have know that earlier - we would have been there earlier!)

The show was really great fun. We saw a preview of the RedNeck Tenors performance, as well as a funny clip of Gordon on the "Red Carpet." His young crushes bit was pretty funny too. As fans of the Ticket and the Gordon Keith Show, we've been looking for a good reason to go see the taping live, and enjoyed ourselves so much that we might even go again (if they'll still have us)

I like to think it was my exuberant personality over the fact that we were the only ones in the studio audience, but surprisingly enough as the Team Captain I was chosen as "Audience Member of the Week!" (I like to think Gordon was drawn to my personality and good looks...) I got to sit with Gordon and kill a segment making sand art and getting to say just enough about the DUCK Fiabetes cause to hopefully drive some attention to our team!

So I wanted to officially thank Gordon Keith and his producer Kerri Navarro for having us to the show. We really appreciate the opportunity and we had a blast. We'll get the word out about this weeks show (and the fact that it'll be 1/2 hour late) and I'm sure help you sell lost of Miller High Life. Thanks again...