Orlando Touchdown Club
Members and friends, now that it's mid August, let's all try extra hard to be safe! And let's hope and pray we'll be done with this terrible pandemic sooner than later. Not only do we want a return to normalcy, we hope and expect to have a football season and all the other sports we love to follow.
Because of the pandemic, our club has had to adjust and make some changes. Our NEW opening night will be Monday, Sept. 14! This will be the first of SEVEN dinner meetings for the season. To lead us off, we will welcome the former head coach of Illinois and Western MIchigan, Bill Cubit. Coach Cubit, a proud graduate of the Univ. of Delaware, has been an assistant at UCF under the legendary Lou Saban, Florida under Galen Hall, Western Mich, Akron, Stanford, Missouri and Rutgers before he became Western MIchigan's long time and successful head coach.
Bill Cubit has TONS of stories to tell! It will be fun to have him with us.
As of today, here is our 2020 season lineup:
Sept. 14 Bill Cubit, longtime head and asst college coach
Sept. 28 Shane Matthews, former UF and NFL QB
Oct. 12 Matt Baker, college FB writer, Tampa Bay Times
Oct. 26 Andy Staples of The Athletic and XM radio Channel 84
Nov. 9 Tom Luginbill of ESPN Tom's first time with us!
Dec. 7 Charles Davis, CBS Sports NFL commentator
Feb. 1 Tony Barnhart of Sports Illustrated
While we don't know "if" there will be a National Championship game or not, we have asked our good friend, Tony Barnhart, to be our last speaker of the year on Mon, Feb. 1. We think it will be terrific to have an end of the year season review (or a preview of spring FB) with Tony and bring everyone together one last time. With that said, let's all keep our fingers crossed for a full, fun and terrific 2020 season!
Many people have already signed up and paid for the 2020 season. Please don't stop sending me your checks! Address info is below. Now that Sept. 14 is getting closer, we'd like everyone's membership payment mailed in OR feel free to bring it with you the night of our event. But please tell us you're coming!
Please send all checks - payable to the Orlando TD Club to:
Gig Sineni
601 Chatas Ct.
Lake Mary, FL 32746
Good news; for 2020, there will be NO rate increase! Our membership fee remains at $325 and any Junior members under 40 pay $275. Our guest fees remain the same too; just $50 per meeting and $25 for those under the age of 18.
As an added bonus for all of our members; for every NEW MEMBER you bring in the door, YOU get $50 off your own yearly membership. There is NO limit! Please feel free to invite 1, 2, 3 or more new people to this great and fun college FB club of our's!
We have already had Steve Spurrier (twice), Lee Corso, (numerous times in the past) Stan Van Gundy, (once before) Lou Holtz and
Bobby Bowden. Who knows "who" the next great personality will be that we bring to Orlando?
Besides a wonderful guest speaker at every dinner meeting, we give you THREE terrific personalities each night in MIke Bianchi,
Marc Daniels and Steve Gunter!
- Mike Bianchi, our MC, is not only the top sports columnist for The
Orlando Sentinel, he's the host of his own daily radio show on "96.9
The Game." And lucky for us, Mike gives us his own college FB commentary at every meeting.
- Marc Daniels, the wonderful radio voice of the UCF Knights and also
a mid morning host with "96.9 The Game," delivers a fabulous UCF
report at every meeting that excites our growing UCF membership.
- Lastly, Steve Gunter, the terrific host and owner of the Tap Room, always provides a great welcome and a funny SEC
video before each meeting.
Along with Mike, Marc and Steve, no dinner meeting can be complete without a terrific history lesson and prayer from the club historian, the honorable, Thomas Tart.
While we are not sure of the start of high school football this season, our club has always honored great young men with "player of the week awards." Depending on what happens with football in Orange and Seminole County, we would like to do this again in 2020.
Our location for all TD Club dinner meetings is the Historic Dubsdread Ballroom, next door to The Tap Room, just off Par St. and I-4.
WHO is your favorite college team? Whoever it is, you'll have plenty of company! All Gators, Knights, 'Noles, Irish, Crimson Tide, Vols, 'Canes, Nittany Lions, Dawgs, Tigers, Wolverines and even Buckeyes are welcome at our club.
For more info on membership, any questions or comments OR you would like to help us attract a new speaker, please contact Gig Sineni at: GLSineni@gmail.com.
We will see you on Monday, Sept. 14!
Because of the pandemic, our club has had to adjust and make some changes. Our NEW opening night will be Monday, Sept. 14! This will be the first of SEVEN dinner meetings for the season. To lead us off, we will welcome the former head coach of Illinois and Western MIchigan, Bill Cubit. Coach Cubit, a proud graduate of the Univ. of Delaware, has been an assistant at UCF under the legendary Lou Saban, Florida under Galen Hall, Western Mich, Akron, Stanford, Missouri and Rutgers before he became Western MIchigan's long time and successful head coach.
Bill Cubit has TONS of stories to tell! It will be fun to have him with us.
As of today, here is our 2020 season lineup:
Sept. 14 Bill Cubit, longtime head and asst college coach
Sept. 28 Shane Matthews, former UF and NFL QB
Oct. 12 Matt Baker, college FB writer, Tampa Bay Times
Oct. 26 Andy Staples of The Athletic and XM radio Channel 84
Nov. 9 Tom Luginbill of ESPN Tom's first time with us!
Dec. 7 Charles Davis, CBS Sports NFL commentator
Feb. 1 Tony Barnhart of Sports Illustrated
While we don't know "if" there will be a National Championship game or not, we have asked our good friend, Tony Barnhart, to be our last speaker of the year on Mon, Feb. 1. We think it will be terrific to have an end of the year season review (or a preview of spring FB) with Tony and bring everyone together one last time. With that said, let's all keep our fingers crossed for a full, fun and terrific 2020 season!
Many people have already signed up and paid for the 2020 season. Please don't stop sending me your checks! Address info is below. Now that Sept. 14 is getting closer, we'd like everyone's membership payment mailed in OR feel free to bring it with you the night of our event. But please tell us you're coming!
Please send all checks - payable to the Orlando TD Club to:
Gig Sineni
601 Chatas Ct.
Lake Mary, FL 32746
Good news; for 2020, there will be NO rate increase! Our membership fee remains at $325 and any Junior members under 40 pay $275. Our guest fees remain the same too; just $50 per meeting and $25 for those under the age of 18.
As an added bonus for all of our members; for every NEW MEMBER you bring in the door, YOU get $50 off your own yearly membership. There is NO limit! Please feel free to invite 1, 2, 3 or more new people to this great and fun college FB club of our's!
We have already had Steve Spurrier (twice), Lee Corso, (numerous times in the past) Stan Van Gundy, (once before) Lou Holtz and
Bobby Bowden. Who knows "who" the next great personality will be that we bring to Orlando?
Besides a wonderful guest speaker at every dinner meeting, we give you THREE terrific personalities each night in MIke Bianchi,
Marc Daniels and Steve Gunter!
- Mike Bianchi, our MC, is not only the top sports columnist for The
Orlando Sentinel, he's the host of his own daily radio show on "96.9
The Game." And lucky for us, Mike gives us his own college FB commentary at every meeting.
- Marc Daniels, the wonderful radio voice of the UCF Knights and also
a mid morning host with "96.9 The Game," delivers a fabulous UCF
report at every meeting that excites our growing UCF membership.
- Lastly, Steve Gunter, the terrific host and owner of the Tap Room, always provides a great welcome and a funny SEC
video before each meeting.
Along with Mike, Marc and Steve, no dinner meeting can be complete without a terrific history lesson and prayer from the club historian, the honorable, Thomas Tart.
While we are not sure of the start of high school football this season, our club has always honored great young men with "player of the week awards." Depending on what happens with football in Orange and Seminole County, we would like to do this again in 2020.
Our location for all TD Club dinner meetings is the Historic Dubsdread Ballroom, next door to The Tap Room, just off Par St. and I-4.
WHO is your favorite college team? Whoever it is, you'll have plenty of company! All Gators, Knights, 'Noles, Irish, Crimson Tide, Vols, 'Canes, Nittany Lions, Dawgs, Tigers, Wolverines and even Buckeyes are welcome at our club.
For more info on membership, any questions or comments OR you would like to help us attract a new speaker, please contact Gig Sineni at: GLSineni@gmail.com.
We will see you on Monday, Sept. 14!
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All dinner meetings are held inside the "Historic Dubsdread Ballroom," next to The Tap Room restaurant. With a full staff of wonderful people and great food at every meeting, THIS is the place to be!
549 W Par Street Orlando, FL 32804 (407) 650-0100 Meeting schedule: 5:00 PM Check in and cocktails. 5:45 Welcome from Gig Sineni, Steve Gunter and Thomas Tart 6:00 Dinner. 6:20 Meeting begins. We'll be done by 8:00! |