My Favorite Postcards

National Postcard Week
May 6-12, 2007

The Panacea Cats of Florida

O'Bear really believes he was standing beside coach Urban Meyer when the Gators dumped ice on him after they beat Ohio State for the National Championship!

January 8, 2007
The University of Florida Defeats Ohio State
41 - 14

This unused postcard was made for Bette Mays with the art drawn by Rick Geary.

The back of the postcard reads:

Texans Bette and Elmo Mays have always been football fans.  While living in Ohio they attended many Ohio State football games with Dr. Martha Passe and Professor Michael Passe.  Shirley, daughter # 2 attended Ohio State.
  The Mays moved from Ohio to Florida where they especially cheered for the University of Florida Gators.  Even thought # 4 daughter Suzanne got her degree in Florida at Palm Beach Atlantic University she was pulling for Ohio State, her husbands John's school.
  The cats belonged to the Mays family.  The pug lives in New York with Spencer, Peyton and Phoenix List.

The Walt Disney Company

This metallic postcard is unused and features Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck playing football.  

Green Bay Packers
Lambeau Field
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay packers, is the longest tenured stadium in the National Football League.  Built in 1957, seating capacity as expanded over the years from 32,150 to its current 72,928.  Dedicated as City Stadium on Sept. 29, 1957, the team renamed the facility Lambeau Field following the death of E.L. "Curly" Lambeau, the Packers' founder and first coach.  Lambeau Field was rededicated on Sept. 7, 2003 following a 3 year renovation.  Lambeau Field easily ranks as one of the most recognized venues in all of sports.

An officially licensed product of Lambeau Field

I have two of these cards, one postmarked in 2013 from Wisconsin, the other is unused, but has a Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packers stamp attached.

Air View, Baltimore Stadium, 33rd Street Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland.

This is postmarked in 1944 with a one cent stamp.

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Baltimore Municipal Stadium, was built in 1922 as a football stadium, but became the home to the baseball team The Orioles in Summer 1944.

 Fall in Wisconsin means football fever.  Scores of red-clad fans cheer their beloved Badgers on to victory at Camp Randall stadium in Madison.  Tailgate parties - before and after the game are a traditional way to toast the season.


Wisconsin Department of Development - Tourism
Photo by Gary Knowles

the sender writes:
Hi Brenda
I stumbled on your web link. This card is one of a series by the Wisconsin Division of Tourism from about 1987-1989.  We bound sets in travel guides and then printed extras to give to visitors.

Happy Collecting!
~Gary Knowles (see the name of the photographer above :)

postmarked in 2013 with a USA 32 cent stamp featuring Vince Lumbardi!

Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
Scene of the Annual Football Classic

Each year the Tournament of Roses Association invites the western university whose team has made the most outstanding record during the season.  The university in turn invites its opponent of similar standing from the Big Ten.  The game played on New Year's Day is traditional and has become a national classic.  Over 101,000 football enthusiasts crowd this immense stadium for this famous event.  The Rose Bowl is also the setting for many community events and athletic contests throughout the year.
Of interest to the visitors are the 5,000 beautiful rose bushes, some 157 varieties, that encircle the stadium.

Ektachrome color by Fairchild Aerial Surveys

Curteich postcard, unused

An aerial view of Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL's Tamp Bay Buccaneers and site of Superbowl XXXV.

unused, bought in 2010

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Raymond James Stadium was built primarily to replace the aging Houlihan's Stadium, formerly located adjacent to the property. It is located on the former site of the now–demolished Al Lopez Field. Once completed, the final cost of the stadium was $168.5 million, publicly financed. It was known as Tampa Community Stadium during construction, but the naming rights were bought for $32.5 million for a thirteen–year deal by St. Petersburg-based Raymond James Financial in June 1998. On April 27, 2006 an extension was signed to maintain naming rights through 2015.

The stadium officially opened on September 20, 1998, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Chicago Bears, 27–15.

The largest crowd ever recorded in Raymond James Stadium came on October 9, 2009, with U2’s 360º Tour. More than 72,000 people were in attendance.

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

The "Pride of the Southland" Band gathers to form the "Power T" for the Vols to run through before a Satyrday afternoon game at Neyland Stadium.

Photo: Donna Calonge in 1995

unused, from 2010

(The Word Saturday is spelled wrong on the card)

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The Pride of the Southland Marching Band has been performing at halftime for over one hundred years, but has existed since 1869 when it was founded as part of the Military Department.

It was not until 1961 that Tennessee native W. J. Julian was hired as an associate professor and director of the UT bands. Some of the many traditions established under his direction are the pregame formations.

The Pride's famous pregame show was designed by Julian with exclusive musical arrangements by Warren Clark and Barry McDonald. This six minute and forty-five second show has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. It begins with a "Tennessee Waltz" variation in common time, followed by, starting in the 2007 season, a march version of "Tennessee River", then the "Alma Mater March". The band forms the traditional floating "U" and "T" and marches this across the majority of the field accompanied by "Rocky Top". The pregame show continues to build in excitement as the "Power T" is formed and all the Vols fans are asked to join in the Volunteer Wave and the crowd spells out "V-O-L-S" and chant "Go Vols Go!" Then the Pride of the Southland's Drum Major runs through the middle of this formation. The band then marches across the field until it reaches the opposite end zone. At this point, "Stars and Stripes Forever" is played and the band forms a large "USA" to the visiting sideline, then inverts the form to face the front sideline.

Pregame reaches its most thrilling point with the "Opening of the T" where the football team runs through a block T on to the field and to their sideline. This is one of the most photographed moments in college football and one of the greatest traditions of the "Pride", Tennessee football, and the University of Tennessee.
Although the T formation is used almost exclusively at Tennessee home games in Neyland Stadium, it has been done at other venues, most notably at the 1986 and 1991 Sugar Bowl.

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Here they are running into the 'Power T'

University of Tennessee

The Big Orange make their way onto Neyland Stadium through the famous Power "T".

Photo by Ryan & Shelly Calonge in 2005

This Sunday is
GAME DAY
at Aloma

Wear your team colors!

2010 is the Year of Connect at Aloma! Our Game Day is all about connecting people:
to God
to each other
to His church

Wear your favorite team colors and be ready to get in the game for the Year of Connect.

See you there! GO TEAM!

Pastor Anthony

postmarked in 2010 with a machine stamp

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This is a postcard I received from my church. We did this last year too for Super Bowl Sunday. There were beach balls being passed around, we did the wave, and everything was so much fun! A word about Pastor Anthony George, he is not your typical preacher. He is so anointed from God that even the teenagers love him! You never know what he is going to say next, or what is going to get him on a rant. If you live in Central Florida and looking for something to do on Sunday morning, check out Aloma Baptist Church.

Aloma Baptist Church
1815 State Road 436
Winter Park, Fl 32792
407-671-6851