Timeline of Company Events
1989:
Spud Alford Invents the Game after Seeing Some Kids on TV Playing the Old School
Paper Football.
Appears on The 700 Club in Virginia Beach, & Shows Prototype for 60 Seconds (Sells
out the Very next Day).
Worked as a Trust Officer with Columbus Bank & Trust, Total System Services,
Synovus Financial Corporation™, AFLAC™, & a Special Investigator for the Federal
Government.
1991:
Abandoned the idea.
2004:
Spud Wakes up in the Middle of the Night with Finger Football® on His Mind.
Formed LLC in Georgia July 20.
Worked on Designs & Play Value of the Game, All Part-Time While Working as a Federal
Investigator Full-Time.
2005:
Still Full-Time as a FED. Worked Mainly on the PPM & Business Plan.
2006:
Received First Few Investments of More Than $100,000 & Leaves Job as an
Investigator.
Created First Prototype.
Attended First Sports Show.
Approached Brett Favre & Secured His Endorsement.
Secured NFL™ License.
Secured Four Collegiate Licenses.
Four Months in the Marketplace, Sold More than 12,000 Games.
1,357 of Those Sales Came from One Kiosk in Columbus, Georgia. - Nov. & Dec. Only.
2007:
Started Building Mom & Pop Stores as Customers
Invented Finger Golf, Baseball, & Soccer.
Added a Few More Collegiate Licenses as well as the PGA Tour™ License.
Made the Decision to Not Pursue the Retail Sector except for Mall Kiosks.
Offered the Game to Independent Kiosk Owners Nationwide - 34 Accepted the Offer;
Sold over 23,000 Games in Nov. & Dec. Only; Finished Year with 25,000+ Game Sales.
Baseball Game Was Named Toy of the Year by Disney’s™ Family Fun Magazine.
Home Shopping Network™ Purchases 500 Finger Football® Games & Sells out in 4.5
Minutes on National TV.
2008:
Sold Approximately 16,000-Plus Games Nationwide through Small Retail Outlets,
Internet, Catalogues, including Dick’s™, Sport’s Authority™, Amazon™, & Others.
CNN™ Films Christmas Tournament in Columbus & Airs the Story on Super Bowl
Sunday.
Coors Light™ Purchases 857 Games with Their Private Label & Gave to Distributors
Nationwide.
2009:
Target™ Takes ZELOSPORT® as a Test Product. Sold out of Our Games in the
Gainesville, Florida, Store Twice.
Email Blasts Proved to Be a Great Sales Venue.
Internet Sales up Several Hundred Percent.
Mom & Pop’s Now Top More Than 700 Stores Nationwide.
HLN™ Does a Small Business Success Story.
Amazon™ Sells Hundreds of Games During the Christmas Season.
Pepsi Purchases 250 Games & Uses Them as Displays in Publix Stores to Promote
Their Relationship as a 2009 Super Bowl Sponsor.
Sales Top 23,000 Games.
Developed a “Gift to a Soldier” Campaign That Moves over 300 Games to Soldiers
Abroad.
Both Football & Soccer Games Win National Awards.
Discontinue NFL™ License & Surrender Some Smaller Collegiate Licenses Not
Performing.
Invented Basketball & Hockey games (Not yet Released to the Public); Both the NHL™
& NBA™
Expressed Interest in Licensing Games.
Approached by NASCAR™ to Create a Racing Game.
Early 2010:
Tim White in Texas Begins Working Full-Time at Establishing Our Games as an
Alternative to Teaching Grade School Kids Math & Other Subjects.
Pursued a 16 City Tournament Schedule throughout the South.
Negotiated a Deal with Simon Properties to Hold Tourneys in Their Malls; the 9/11
Event Will Be Held at Fort Hood, Texas (for Soldiers & Their Kids).
Developed a Wide Scale Gift to a Soldier Campaign for 2010; Goal to Move 4,000
Games to Soldiers Overseas.
iPhone™ Football Game Developed & Has Sold in More Than 60 Countries.
iPhone Soccer Game to Be Released Prior to the World Cup; Sales & Downloads Top
95,000 & Growing.
With the Help of Texas State Commissioner Tim White & Nationally Acclaimed Author
Jill Connor Browne, ZELOSPORT® Now Has 50 Private Label Games on a New Aircraft
Carrier Named after George HW Bush.
Phase Two
July 2010:
Began Recruiting for Commissioners for the Introduction of the NFFL™ Nationwide.
Championship Held Here on the Saturday before the Super Bowl Weekend.
ZELOSPORT® to Introduce a Line of NFFL & Finger Football® T-Shirts.
Sales Will Grow Worldwide with the Introduction of the World Cup Soccer & Hockey
Game.
An 18-hole Finger Golf course is being designed and manufactured in which each hole
will be on a table by itself.
Company Toured the Country from February through June Holding Finger Golf Events
under the Name of the PFG Tour™.
A discussion of a Possible Co-Branding Opportunity or Partnership around
ZELOSPORT®’s Soon to Be Completed Finger Racing Game.
2011:
ZELOSPORT™ Signs National Sponsorship Deal with White Castle Hamburger™ Chain
WC Finger Football® Tournaments held in Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago,
Indianapolis, Detroit, Columbus, Georgia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville,
Newark, & New York City.
Slider Bowl National Championship Was Held in Indianapolis 5 Days before the Super
Bowl.
NBC™ Films the Entire Event and Airs the Story Online at NBC News with Brian
Williams.
6,000 People Watched a Live Stream of the Tournament Nationwide, & Story Made the
Lead Page of Yahoo™ & Read by More than 55,000.
iPhone Games Are Now at 400,000 & Counting in Downloads Worldwide.
Deals closed with ToysRUs™, S&S™ Catalog, a 200-Store Chain in Maine, a 14-Store
Chain in Canada, as well as a Potential Partnership with One of South America’s
Leading Toy and Game Distributors.
AAU Showed Interest in Partnering with ZELOSPORT® in a Nationwide Tournament
Using Their Resources & Contacts.
Holds Second Season in 16 Cities across the South with the Launch of the PFG Tour in
the Spring.
2012:
National Finger Football League & National Championship Held in Indianapolis,
Indiana, with 16 Finalists Competing for the $2500 Prize
ZELOSPORT® Now Has Seven Sports Games Ready for Order - Finger Football®, Soccer,
Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Basketball, & Racing.
iPhone™ Downloads Now Exceed 600,000 Worldwide.