VenRoo

Tracking the venues you've visited – Poster of the NFL Stadiums on a Map of the United States

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Interview with Quest For 31

VenRoo – Tracking the venues you’ve visited.  This is our tag line for our posters of stadiums on a map of the U.S., where you can display and track the stadiums you’ve visited.  We created the poster for ourselves, as we started traveling with a group of friends to a different NFL stadium each year.  As we started to grow and promote our business through blogs, social media, and our website, we started to meet new people around the country who loved to see various stadiums too.

 

One person, in particular, was Hans Steiniger and his Quest for 31 – One Man’s Crusade to Attend an NFL Game in all 31 Stadiums in the National Football League.  What a great combination; we have a poster to track your NFL stadium travels, and Hans is on a crusade to see them all and experience the game from the perspective of the home team.  We have since communicated through email and discussed various travels and tips and Hans has been very helpful in spreading the word about our poster.

 

Hans Steiniger with the Venroo Poster

We recently spoke with Hans to get more information on his ‘crusade’.  He first attended games in Buffalo, as a Bills fan and moved to the Detroit area.  While in Detroit he made it to a few Lions and Browns games and then traveled to Tampa to visit some family.  While in Tampa he realized that the stadiums and games were a great opportunity to experience the various locations and thought it would be cool to see all 31 NFL stadiums.

 

Hans made it to all 31 stadiums, in only four years, while wearing a jersey from each home team, and saw a little over 50 games.  He made some great friends along the way and always tried to find the ‘spot’ at the game where the locals hung out.  He said he would even get calls from people asking when he was coming back to their stadium.

 

After experiencing all those games and stadiums, you get a good feel for various traits that make a stadium stand out.  It was hard for Hans to pick out his single favorite stadium, but he did like: Quest Field (Seattle)– for its design (and 12th man noise) and awesome food varieties at the concessions;  Lambeau (Green Bay) for its all around classic feel; Cowboys Stadium (Dallas/Arlington) for just being over the top on everything; and you can’t beat the pirate ship at Raymond James Stadium (Tampa).  If you ever go to Minnesota you should buy a hollowed-out horn as a ‘glass’ to drink your beer.

 

With his quest for the 31 NFL stadiums complete, Hans continues to visit stadiums and maintain relationships with people he’s met on his quest.  He’ll pull out one the team jerseys from a foot locker, where they’re safely stored, and hit the road for another fun weekend.  Of course his favorite jersey is a Bills #31 with the name “Quest For” on the back.

 

Hans isn’t stopping with the NFL.  He’s started other quests for NHL and NBA and even has a Sports Themed Wedding Invitation website, which is real cool.  So, be sure to look out for Hans at your next tailgate and stop by his websites to catchup on his travels

http://www.questfor31.com/

http://www.sportsthemedweddings.com/

Venroo Stadium Poster is great for making pool picks

Most die-hard fans know their teams and opponents and can easily decide the winners of the games for their weekly office pools. But what do you do if you’re in the pool for fun and don’t know much about the teams? You can make your picks based on the team colors or the mascots. Or, better yet, you can refer to your Venroo Stadium Map Poster. Our kids love to look at the poster to see where the teams are playing and how far they have to travel to their opponent’s stadium. They also like to base their pick on how cool the stadium is.

What great family fun… teaching kids the concept of odds and a little geography at the same time. Good Luck in your pools.

Draft Day – 2011

With the NFL Schedule released last week and the NFL Draft this week, how can you not be excited for the 2011 season?

To celebrate, VenRoo is offering a reduced price and free shipping on its Pro Football stadium map poster, for a limited time.  This makes a great gift for any football fan and is a great conversation piece in any rec room, man cave, office, or garage.  Fans of all ages love looking at the locations of the stadiums and seeing where they want to go, or just where their favorite team is going to play.

Visit the new Venroo website and get a poster for yourself or a friend.  Save more when you buy multiple posters.

Green Bay – Plan ahead and act fast

Green Bay has got to be the best overall venue we’ve experienced. From the town, the people, the stadium, and the bars and restaurants, we had a blast everywhere we went. The area around the stadium is compact, and filled with plenty of hotels and restaurants. We stayed at the Tundra Lodge in a couple of their “suite” rooms. They had a great breakfast and bar right in the hotel, and it was within walking distance of the stadium and other bars.

Lambeau field is open to the public during the week, which we visited on Saturday. They have several places to eat and drink, along with a museum if you want to take in some Packer culture.

At first we didn’t know if we wanted to tailgate at the stadium during the game or find a bar, but we quickly learned from the local restaurants, on Saturday, that several offer pre-game specials. These specials included food and all you can drink for a flat rate. We had a blast at Favre’s (yes Brett Favre’s restaurant), the morning of the game. We went in mid September and experienced a bonus heat wave, with nearly 80 degree temperatures, so it was plenty warm during the day (we probably won’t be so lucky the next time we go).

Green Bay

Lambeau Field Seats

The stadium is awesome, even with bleacher seating. It’s not like your typical bowl stadium with lower and upper bowls that take you, what seem like, thousands of feet in the air. This stadium is much lower to the ground, so you have a great experience anywhere you sit.

We knew we wanted to go to Green Bay, before the NFL schedule was released. We also knew the tickets and hotels sell out fast. So, the day the schedule came out, we had two groups of guys working the phones. One group started calling the hotels, while the other worked the ticket brokers. Within 10 minutes we had 8 tickets, in the same row, and two awesome rooms at the Tundra Lodge. We probably got these within a few minutes of selling out the tickets and hotels for the entire season. So, if you know you’re going to Green Bay for the first time, be prepared for some extra time and expense, unless you plan ahead and act fast.

 

Which football stadiums are shown on the poster

There are a lot of stadiums within the professional football and many have been replaced by newer ones over the years.  Which stadiums are shown on the VenRoo poster for professional football?  The current poster for 2010, displays the current stadiums, as of the 2010-2011 season.  New York is new for the year, Indianapolis was new in 2008 and others were replaced several years back.

The concept of VenRoo, is tracking where you’ve been, so we decided to include the current stadiums.  You can still show a date on the stadium even though you haven’t been to a newer one.  Unless you want to track the actual stadium, which is just fine too.  We may offer stickers, in the future, of all the older stadiums, if you want to see the image of those past stadiums.

Customizing your VenRoo poster

Tracking your visits

The venues on the VenRoo poster are inside a colorful ring, with a lighter shade on the bottom quarter of the ring.  You can use this lighter area to write anything you want about the venue.  Use it to write the date of the first time you visited, such as Sept 2005 or 9-24-2006.  Add the score of the game or the opponent played.  Be creative, add your on personal style.  Track the number of times you’ve been, wins or losses, or if it was a good or not so good venue.

What is VenRoo?

VenRoo is all about tracking the various venues you’ve visited.  Just as a kangaroo hops from one place to the next, you visit a variety of venues.  Venues could be stadiums, arenas, sporting events, amusement parks, concerts, or anything else that you visit.

People like to keep track of the places they’ve been and we are trying to make it fun and interesting to present those travels in a geographical format.

So, with the combination of Venue and Kangaroo, VenRoo was born.

The Tracks

Tracking the Venues you’ve visited.

What are the graphics below the tag line?  Those are the tracks of a kangaroo.  As the kangaroo hops from place to place, they drag their tail along the sand, causing the solid line between the foot prints.

VenRoo Poster

The VenRoo poster is full size (24 x 36).   Each stadium is surrounded by a color ring representing the teams colors.  A lighter shade of color is on the bottom of each ring to allow you to write anything you want.  Use it to write the date of your first visit, the opponent, or the score.  Add additional dots, or lines, to track how many times you’ve been to the stadium.