{"id":19215,"date":"2013-03-01T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19215"},"modified":"2013-03-01T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:33:52","slug":"kickstarter-promotion-win-a-day-with-chris-kluwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/kickstarter-promotion-win-a-day-with-chris-kluwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter promotion: win a day with Chris Kluwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has been in the news a heck of a lot for any non-quarterback. He’s probably the most newsworthy punter in the NFL in the last 25 years or more. A new Kickstarter initiative<\/a> is trying to take advantage of Kluwe’s popularity to raise money for their project:<\/p>\n

Former Chicago Bears’ linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer has designs on launching something called “Overdog.” According to this interview with Hillenmeyer in Forbes<\/em><\/a>, what Overdog is designed to do is connect athletes that like to play video games to … well … other people that like to play video games. <\/p>\n

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Before Overdog can launch, Hillenmeyer wants to raise $100,000 for various aspects of the project. In order to do this, they’ve done what pretty much everyone with a project is doing these days. . .started their own Kickstarter to raise money. Like other Kickstarter drives, there are various levels of pledges you can give, with a higher pledge giving you a higher level of recognition, access, whatever. One of the levels you can pledge at … and there are only four spots available at this level … will give you the following:<\/p>\n