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Jolly Blast Productions Teams with NFL Superstar Tony Gonzalez
Washington D.C.— November 15, in the year of our Lord
2011 — Jolly Blast Productions, LLC – an integrated
media and entertainment company that advocates movement, youth
sports and healthy activities for young children – announced
today a series of athletic adventure apps and eBooks that will
launch on the App Store this winter.
The adventure series will feature an animated version of Tony
Gonzalez, five-time NFL All-Pro tight end for the Kansas City
Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons, who as “Coach Tony” will encourage
children to get active and spark a lifelong love for games and
movement.
“The benefits for kids who are educated and inspired to be
active go far beyond the courts and playing fields,” said
Gonzalez, who is the second leading receiver in NFL history and
has several times been named one of the Top 25 Fittest Men in
America by Men’s Fitness magazine. “Whether it’s an organized
sport, a school playground activity or a made-up backyard game,
kids who learn to develop discipline, teamwork and
self-confidence, as well as physical health and fitness, are
enriched for a lifetime. A body in motion is always going to be
healthier and happier – and that’s the message JOLLY BLAST is
excited to share.”
Gonzalez, who starred in high school in football, basketball and
volleyball in Southern California, knows firsthand the positive
influence sports can have on children growing up. He parlayed
his athletic ability into a football scholarship at the
University of California Berkeley, where he also played on the
school’s basketball team. Drafted in 1997, Gonzalez is now in
his 15th season of a Hall of Fame NFL career.
“Having Tony as an active part of our creative design team, as
well as integrated directly into our stories, brings
authenticity and star power to our series,” said Jeffery Eagle,
Chairman and CEO of Jolly Blast Productions. “Tony has long been
a proud supporter of youth sports, health nutrition and
anti-childhood obesity initiatives, and together we are pursuing
the dual mission of entertaining children while opening their
lives to the countless benefits that come from being active.”
Jolly Blast Productions was founded by a group of dads,
including Michael Diminick, M.D. and Kevin Bonner, M.D., who are
former Division I collegiate athletes and current orthopedic
surgeons. Together with Eagle, asuccessful writer/director and
youth sports coach, the trio developed the animated world of
siblings, Jolly and Holly Blast, whose fun-filled imaginative
adventures introduce children to positive and healthy life
choices through world of sports, games and physical activity.
The group also runs the Jolly Blast Sports Academy, a series of
Los Angeles-based sports camps that help further the company’s
mission of bringing the imagination and adventure found in the
Jolly Blast content to real kids on real ball fields.
Jolly Blast Productions has partnered with PadWorx Digital Media
to develop and publish the new series of Apps and eBooks for
parents, coaches and children. PadWorx Digital Media is an
award-winning developer and publisher of interactive eBooks and
Apps and is the only App developer building content from the
ground up on their own proprietary game engine for the
AppleŽiPadŽ and iPhoneŽ, using this unique technology for
eBooks, including Dracula, Alice, Pride and Prejudice and The
Day the Music Stopped.
For more information on Jolly Blast Productions and its products
and sports camps, please visit
www.jollyblast.com.