Today marks the sixth annual College Colors Day. A nation-wide event that encourages college fans to dress in their favorite college team colors.

The most spirited day in America gave the folks here a chance to showcase their enthusiasm for their favorite college throughout the day. From T-shirts to tattoos, check out the college spirit at Football Fanatics.

If you haven’t noticed already, we recently expanded the width of our site Football Fanatics. But don’t worry – yes our look has slightly changed, but our commitment of giving you a world-class shopping experience has stayed the same.

So below are both versions: the skinny and the fat one. See if you can list at least three new things that appear in the new and improved wider version (Oh, “It’s wider doesn’t count”). Then tell us your opinion of our new look.

Skinny

Fat

Shop our new platform and see for yourself what improvements we’ve made.

The boys are well into the playoffs – the Conference Semifinals to be exact! Eight teams are left battling for the 2010 NBA Championship title – San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, and Orlando Magic.

The last few days have been big in basketball news. Not only did the Cavs set the tone this weekend, taking the lead against the Celtics, but Lebron was named the league’s MVP. Also, after knocking out Oklahoma City on Friday night, the Lakers went on defeating Utah in game one yesterday.

Tonight the Magic take on the Hawks, and the Suns look to bring the heat against the Spurs.

Who are rooting for? Show your pride, gear up now!

GUEST BLOGGER: Mike M.

Florida Gators star Tim Tebow was in Jacksonville recently to sign autographs for a fundraiser for his foundation dedicated to children.

The event, hosted by Palm Beach Autographs, was held on March 6th 2010 at the Avenues Mall in Jacksonville Florida – home to yours truly and the company for which I work, Football Fanatics.

Anyway, being a Fanatic, I called up my friend Martin Buckley (a rockstar name if ever there was one) who happens to manage the Palm Beach Autographs store AND who happens to be behind the whole shindig.

So I say, “Marty, [no one else calls him that but me] how ’bout a good friend and fellow Gator hookup?”

“What was your name again?” Marty casually replied.

Realizing that this was how he was going to play it, I switched to the professional angle. You see, the Football Fanatics Avenues store is located right across the breezeway from his stellar operation and, as luck would have it, Martin knows our retail staff very well. We even sell some of Palm Beach Autograph’s merchandise on our website.

That – and my offer to give him a copy of my footage if he’d let me shoot the event – enticed him into a more hospitable mood.

Mr. Buckley was exceedingly gracious allowing me a level of access normally only afforded to heads of state and local journalists. Of course, I didn’t actually get to talk to Mr. Tebow. But I did get to film his interview with the local media. I even got my mom and my oldest son in as well by appointing them production assistants.

I also got to hang out and talk to some really great folks. Jacksonville is my adopted hometown and chatting up the good folks of the city at an event like this always makes me remember why I stay here (well…that and my wife refuses to live anywhere else).

“What was Tebow like?” friends asked me afterward. I’d say he’s the real deal – friendly, well-mannered and unfailingly nice and polite. Of course, that comes from spending about two hours a mere three feet from him and not getting to talk to him, but if you’ll settle for a fly-on-the-wall perspective, there it is.

Anyway, enjoy the 10 minute video. You’ll find shots of the signing, interviews and scenes from the event. If you love Tim Tebow, it has most of the complete media interview with him.

Thanks for checking us out and have a great day.

Tim Tebow Autograph Session and Interview

We would like to take the time to congratulate our very own Jennifer S. She managed to recruit 49 new Fanatics Rewards Club members in a friendly, internal contest here at Football Fanatics.

The three month contest allowed us to see the good and bad before rolling out a real recruiting program to our FRC members. Here she is sharing her competitive strategies and feelings toward the name Francis.

Enjoy!

Football Fanatics employees had a surprise visitor today! Jacksonville Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville and two members of The Roar cheerleading squad visited our offices this afternoon for an autograph signing. After the outside signing, Jaxson roller-bladed around the warehouse and offices high-fiving the staff and getting everyone excited about the local team.

Check out the pictures and video!

The Football Fanatics Super Summer Clearance is underway! Take an extra 20% off all sale items. This sale covers gear from our entire site… that’s all teams in all leagues. So whether you’re looking for some back to school tees or cold weather sweatshirts for the upcoming NFL season, we have it all … on sale! Football Fanatics has t-shirts, hats, jerseys, sweatshirts, shorts, watches, accessories, etc. Stock up on team gear while the clearance is still running.

Don’t forget that if you join the Fanatics Rewards Club (which is free) and purchase over $75 worth of merchandise, you will qualify for free shipping! This is absolutely the best time to buy!

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