Online Sports Community ArmchairGM Seeks to Turn Super Bowl Sunday into Charitable Fund Raiser

New York, NY (PRWeb) February 2, 2007 -- Users of Wikia's popular online sports community, ArmchairGM, have joined forces in an attempt to turn Super Bowl Sunday into a charitable fundraiser. ArmchairGM users will be live-blogging Super Bowl XLI this weekend, providing their thoughts and commentary on everything from the actual game, to the half-time show to the commercials and more.

ArmchairGM user "Manny Stiles" has issued the following challenge to football fans:

"I want to have as many users pledge to join me in the First (Will-Be-) Annual Comment for Charity Event hosted by the ArmchairGM Community. It's easy to join: For every comment posted on the site during Sunday, pledge to donate $.01 to a local charity of your choice.

*You choose the charity
*Send the final value = (your pledge) x (Total Number of Comments on Sunday) to the charity at your leisure
*Take credit:
--Personally and get tax credits,
--Give anonymously (you can even wear a question mark bag over your head),
--Or give on behalf of ArmchairGM.com!
*Feel good afterwards."

Anyone looking to join in the fun or seeking more information, please visit: http://www.armchairgm.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Dr._Commento's_Armchair-wide_Super_Sunday_Challenge .

About Wikia, Inc.
Since Wikia's launch in November 2004, over 400,000 articles on 2,000 topics have been created and edited by over 65,000 registered users in 45 languages. Currently, Wikia hosts several sports-focused sites such as, the Cycling Wikia, the NFL Wikia, and the NASCAR Wikia.

Wikia enables groups to share information, news, stories, media and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley launched Wikia in 2004 to provide community-based wikis inspired by the model of Wikipedia -- the free, open source encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales.

Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content. Authors retain their own copyrights and allow others to freely reuse their content under a variety of GNU and Creative Commons Licenses, allowing widespread distribution of knowledge and ideas.

About ArmchairGM
Started in March of 2006 by a group of four New York sports fanatics, ArmchairGM has grown to nearly 55,000 pages of user-generated content on all-things sports. The site currently offers a sports encyclopedia and dictionary, sports travel guides, "Ask the Chair" Q&A board, a sports blog index, the ability for users to submit and vote on the day's most popular sports stories, and much more.

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