Make sure to wear your gear!
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Wise Owl
Member since 2007
If your out and about casually in Boca try to wear your FAU Gear.
I met a FAU alum in a restaruant who struck up a conversation because of my hat and shirt. I asked if hed been to any games as a student, (He had just graduated) and he said a few. I told him now that hes and Alum he needs to be at every game and should of been while a student. He seemed pretty pumped up and said he was definaetly going to make an effort to attend every game.
I also ran into a man at Publix on Palmettor who had his FAU hat on. We talked a bit about the game and other overheard and chimed in as well.
Another small thing we can do to spread the word in Boca.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick @$$ and I'm out of bubble gum.
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First Flight
Member since 2007
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And on Christmas EVe I was wearing my Bowl shirt around the mall and around 20 people were like YEAAAAHHH FAU!!!!!
This is an awesome feeling
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Wise Owl
Member since 2004
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My FAU hats and shirts have started conversations in Denver and Breckenridge, Colo. But the strangest turned out to be my Colorado plates (FAUOWLS). A guy on a bike pulling one of those little bike trailers with his 2-year-old inside followed me a half-mile up a hill and knocked on my door in Breckenridge. He asked my wife if someone in the house was an FAU grad, so she sent me to the door. The bicyclist was an FAU grad, as well. We became friends. It turns out that he was a cop in Fairplay, Colo., and since has moved up to the Vail PD. He was graduated from FAU in the 1980s, I think.
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VIP DONOR
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grayowl said
It's true in a lot of places.
My FAU hats and shirts have started conversations in Denver and Breckenridge, Colo. But the strangest turned out to be my Colorado plates (FAUOWLS). A guy on a bike pulling one of those little bike trailers with his 2-year-old inside followed me a half-mile up a hill and knocked on my door in Breckenridge. He asked my wife is someone in the house was an FAU grad, so she sent me to the door. The bicyclist was an FAU grad, as well. We became friends. It turns out that he was a cop in Fairplay, Colo., and since has moved up to the Vail PD. He was graduated from FAU in the 1980s, I think.
Nice! I love stories like this. We should try to include these "alumni snapshots" into the Owl Book.
I don't know how many of you would be interested but I'm going to talk to SAA and SGA about starting an "Owls Across America" collage. Basically alumni send in pictures showing how they're representing FAU in other states… maybe you have a picture of yourself wearing an FAU shirt while catching a fish, you have a picture of an FAU flag outside of your house, stuff like that. And under each picture, we write where the picture came from. The picture of the fish, "Denver, CO" and so forth. Not sure where it would go but I'm preferring some spots in the Student Union over the new Alumni Center, which I doubt will get much traffic on a daily basis.
The whole point is that you can look at it, either as a current student or an alumni, and feel like FAU is pretty much everywhere… even if you don't see the FAU license plates in, say, Texas or New Jersey.
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Wise Owl
Member since 2004
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owlcountry said
grayowl said
It's true in a lot of places.
My FAU hats and shirts have started conversations in Denver and Breckenridge, Colo. But the strangest turned out to be my Colorado plates (FAUOWLS). A guy on a bike pulling one of those little bike trailers with his 2-year-old inside followed me a half-mile up a hill and knocked on my door in Breckenridge. He asked my wife is someone in the house was an FAU grad, so she sent me to the door. The bicyclist was an FAU grad, as well. We became friends. It turns out that he was a cop in Fairplay, Colo., and since has moved up to the Vail PD. He was graduated from FAU in the 1980s, I think.
Nice! I love stories like this. We should try to include these "alumni snapshots" into the Owl Book.
I don't know how many of you would be interested but I'm going to talk to SAA and SGA about starting an "Owls Across America" collage. Basically alumni send in pictures showing how they're representing FAU in other states… maybe you have a picture of yourself wearing an FAU shirt while catching a fish, you have a picture of an FAU flag outside of your house, stuff like that. And under each picture, we write where the picture came from. The picture of the fish, "Denver, CO" and so forth. Not sure where it would go but I'm preferring some spots in the Student Union over the new Alumni Center, which I doubt will get much traffic on a daily basis.
The whole point is that you can look at it, either as a current student or an alumni, and feel like FAU is pretty much everywhere… even if you don't see the FAU license plates in, say, Texas or New Jersey.
That is a great idea.
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Make sure to wear your gear!
At the Big 12 championship game this year (the same day FAU beat Troy), I was walking with my FAU football shirt on and an Oklahoma tailgate stopped me and said "Schnellneberger! FAU!". Talk about a great feeling…
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What are the odds of running into an FAU alum? It's about 100000 in 6.6 billion (0.0015%). Just remember, FAU is WORLDWIDE!
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