SaraKIMktg Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Help Kings Island kick cancer. You will make an impact. You might win a new car! Kings Island Kicks Cancer is a new park initiative this year. Beginning July 25 - August 24, you can purchase a soccer ball for only $5 or get 5 soccer balls for $20 and kick them into the fountain for your chance to win a 2015 Honda Fit, courtesy of our good friends at Performance Kings Honda. Net proceeds benefit Melanoma Know More, The Dragonfly Foundation and Pink Ribbon Girls. Share a photo of you getting ready to kick your soccer ball into the fountain on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #KIKicksCancer for your chance to win a behind the scenes tour of our maintenance shops this winter. You must follow us on one of the three social platforms listed to be eligible. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Sounds like a fun campaign supporting some fantastic organizations!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I love the little duckies, but I can see them upping the theme for variety. I never played for the prize, it's to get a shirt for my mom. but that maintenance tour really caught my eye. I'll be there kickin'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malem Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 It looks like some great causes are benefiting this year. I am curious about the soccer balls: what happens when guests kick them too hard? As part of this campaign, KI is looking for at least 184 heads to shave on Friday, August 1 to raise awareness and break a world record: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4baeaa23a13-kings Greg Sheid registered to have his head shaved, according to his Twitter account. Presumably Don will join in on the fun as well? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Don already has a shaved head most of the time. How about waxed eyebrows? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 It looks like some great causes are benefiting this year. I am curious about the soccer balls: what happens when guests kick them too hard? As part of this campaign, KI is looking for at least 184 heads to shave on Friday, August 1 to raise awareness and break a world record: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4baeaa23a13-kings Greg Sheid registered to have his head shaved, according to his Twitter account. Presumably Don will join in on the fun as well? There was a target for the duckies, I would suspect they would try to coral the soccer balls likewise. The only people I can think of that would purposely kick a soccer ball into a crowd, or "misdirect" a soccer ball by kicking so hard to cause mayhem, wouldn't be the type to lay down donation money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 What happens when a well-meaning person attempts to kick the ball, only to display a complete lack of soccer skills by accidentally glancing it off the side of his foot and sending it sideways into the crowd? Some people just suck at kicking balls. jcgoble3, one of those "some people" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Best soccer idea ever 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 What happens when a well-meaning person attempts to kick the ball, only to display a complete lack of soccer skills by accidentally glancing it off the side of his foot and sending it sideways into the crowd? Some people just suck at kicking balls. jcgoble3, one of those "some people" You run the same risk with throwing a ball.See Mark Mallory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Melanoma Know More I get it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball. Clearly former Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory is not "almost anyone" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 A short, gentle toss can be easily controlled by almost anyone. A kick, even a gentle one, requires pinpoint accuracy when foot meets ball, or else the ball will fly sideways. And a small error at the contact point results in a large error in the path of the ball. You do have a point. I'm just going to throw mine. Whatta they gonna do? Flag me? edited to add on July 23: Looks like they have a lot of net and astroturf for the area where you kick it into the fountain, from a picture on FB; They are ready for clumsy sportsmen. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdf21972 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I am gonna Kick some Balls ! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My friend and I did the $5 donation of Friday. The only way my kick could have been worse is if it had hit me in the face when it bounced back. It was pretty bad. My friend however made it in the goal. He won a free appetizer at Bonefish. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I shanked my kick into the netting on the right side. Just another reason why soccer is purely a spectator sport for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I'd laugh so hard if a soccer ball crossed the fountains and onto the midway Also if someone gets them IN the fountains..they deserve a prize IMO lol 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Lizard Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Oh gosh, there's a goal too? I am getting all my school gym class anxiety up over this promotion. I want to participate, but I am really bad at sports. I hope they'll be ok if I just toss mine in by hand. If not, I'll probably just donate money and leave it at that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Oh gosh, there's a goal too? I am getting all my school gym class anxiety up over this promotion. I want to participate, but I am really bad at sports. I hope they'll be ok if I just toss mine in by hand. If not, I'll probably just donate money and leave it at that.Don't fret. They have a pretty decent setup that forces the ball into the fountain. Even toddlers were tapping the ball and it was rolling into the fountain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Way to make me feel better about my kick.... : ( 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Way to make me feel better about my kick.... : ( I'm afraid to ask: what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I kicked it and it went off the side of my foot hit one of the metal bars on the fencing and flew back in my direction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Oops. Did you try again, and if so, how did that work out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 No it rolled back down into the fountain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoraX Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Ape - I think you are awesome. I hope you get a "kick" out of this down the road when you think back about it. Maybe there will be a story for you to share with your son as he gets older and gets to kick the ball himself. It would be nothing shy of awesome if he kicked the ball just like you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I think it's hilarious. I was cracking up when it happened. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 LOL, APE... You did it for a good cause, and that's what matters. It also ended up in the fountain ultimately, so that's done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APE Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I may donate another $5 for the wife and I each and we both get to do it. She wasn't there Friday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 We Donated $60 on Saturday and got to kick 15 Soccer Balls into the fountain. And plan on doing more. It goes for a great cause! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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