Mike Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Morning Big Blue One Year Anniversary! On the same day that rookie camp opens for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, MorningBigBlue.com is pleased to celebrate the one year anniversary of our website launch. We launched on May 28, 2013 in an attempt to meet the demands of our community just in time for the opening of the 2013 season and a year later, we are pleased to say that we have exceeded all expectations we had for this project. The community that you all helped us build has done some awesome things over the past year. We just recently hit 50,000 posts and over 300 registered users. We’ve become one of the most active CFL fan forums out there and now, we’re happy to announce that we are in a position to start giving back. For the 2014 season, we had previously mentioned that we will be continuing on with the contests we held last year. Both the CFL Pick’em Pool and the Lock of the Week contest will return for 2014, but this year we are offering a $50 Bomber Store gift card to the winner of each contest (arrangements for another team's gift certificate for our out of town members can be made). We are also going to be starting a new Weekly Fantasy contest (to replace the yearly fantasy league) which will allow more of our members to participate. There will be a $50 gift card handed out to the winner of this year-long contest as well. More detail on this to come. We are also going to be offering MorningBigBlue.com shirts to the winners of our yearly contests, as well as randomly throughout the season for various other contests we will be holding. Here is a sneak peak at these T-Shirts. To celebrate our one year anniversary, we will also be doing a random draw for a $25 Bomber Store gift card via our Twitter account. Follow @MorningBigBlue and re-tweet our contest when it comes out to receive an entry into the draw, which will conclude on June 6th. In order to encourage our members to participate and contribute to the content that we value so much from all of you, we are also going to award a $25 gift card in a random draw for all of our members who submit training camp reports. Each daily report will gain you one entry to the draw which will be held at the conclusion of training camp. We also have something else to announce that this entire community should be very proud of. When we created this site, we never did it as a means to earn any income or profit off of the stream of money that we received. We had always maintained that once all the bills were paid off, we wanted to make sure all of the money went to something meaningful. Through the ad revenue we generated from all of our web traffic over the past year, we ended up with enough money that we were able to donate a pair of Bomber season tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Winnipeg on behalf of everyone here at MorningBigBlue.com. It isn’t something we ever expected, and you should all give yourselves a pat on the back for contributing to this site and making this possible. If you ever wonder why we push our website to grow or why we’ve believed in trying to carve out a Twitter following over the past year, it is because for every pair of eyes on our website, it increases the opportunities for things like this. We do it because we are huge fans of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and to be able to provide an opportunity for the less fortunate to experience what we enjoy so much is an awesome feeling for us. Thank you to everyone for an awesome first year. - The MorningBigBlue.com Staff **As an aside - Sometimes I worry that by making all the announcements, I'm stealing Rich's thunder because he is truly the man behind getting Morning Big Blue going. Rich has put in a ton of time, effort and I know he paid out of pocket for the initial startup so I just want to say thanks for making all of this possible. Our staff is one cohesive team and we all contribute in our own way, but Rich has gone above and beyond with a number of late nights, early mornings and much more to ensure that this site had a smooth first year.** johnzo, HardCoreBlue, rebusrankin and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOBomberFan Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Exciting stuff! Happy cakeday MBB. Big thanks to everyone who helps make this place better and better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Wow, that is awesome news. Great job guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconNBigBlue Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Awesome news. Happy B'day MBB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzy Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Congrats fellas, keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.A.B. Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Compared to the official bluebombers forum site and that other forum site, the MorningBigBlue.com provides more information and earlier scoops on what's happening on our beloved Blue Bombers team. To Rich, Mike and the whole team, you guys are awesome and more power. Kampai! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noeller Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Donating a pair of seasons is big time...LOVE it! ...And those t-shirts are cool. Definitely need one! Jacquie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair GM Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Awesome job guys. Very happy to be part of the most active, knowledgeable Bomber community! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquie Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Happy Anniversary! Thanks to everyone who makes this site great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearpants Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Congratulations... looking forward to the contests! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPuDS Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Outstanding job guys.. I was skeptical at the start due to being a diehard but this forum not only rapidly blew away expectations but became my new home (to the chagrin of some im sure ) and i think out community here is unbelievably awesome. The donations on behalf of the board was an amazing gesture and all the mods deserve a beer or 6 in their honour. Cant wait for the contests and rocking that smexy t-shirt hopefully at some point! Heres to MBB.com's birthday and many many more! Cheers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_fanaddict Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Mr. Perfect and Chaosmonkey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Dee Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 And those t-shirts are cool. Definitely need one! …and I'm willing to pay for it. Jacquie and Noeller 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noeller Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 ...and I, as well... SPuDS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iso_55 Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 1 year since the "google chrome" thread and then the "important announcement" which lead to a wielding of the mass-banhammer... good times... good memories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
road griller Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 MBB just turned 1. Wow, that's a coincidence. So did I.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan007 Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 MBB just turned 1. Wow, that's a coincidence. So did I.... Dude we're not talking about your IQ. Nice shirts. road griller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOBomberFan Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 We also just hit 1000 topics in the bomber discussion forum. I'm proud to say 4 or 5 are mine, even if they are entirely filled with gifs. Long live the gif day thread Jpan85 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doublezero Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Congrats and thanks! Really enjoying this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBlink Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Great site. Responsive, pretty, and our members are not bad too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iso_55 Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 I've had some testy situations here with Mike at times but I respect the heck out of the guy as he never banned me when we had our spats. At times, I probably deserved it as I was out of line yet I never even was threatened with any kind of punitive action from him or any of the mods here. So, thanks Mike. I appreciate your patience. Hopefully, we can go on from here & get along better. The mod team here does a great job. I've said this once & I'll say it again there is a mod at OB.com that is absolutely killing that place. He's allowed to carry on the way he does. I'm glad he's there & I'm here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Dee Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 …….OK, quick, name the album and group. iso_55 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Khari Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 Great job and hard to believe one already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebusrankin Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Being able to donate a pair of season tickets is very cool and commendable. Hope next year it's 4. Rich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now