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Supplying the News. Bringing you the Latest at Texas Iron & Metal and in Industry-Related News. February 2012 Steel for the Touchdown! Are you ready for Super Bowl 2012? So is your team at Texas Iron & Metal! In honor of the big championship game, we're taking a look back at how one of America's favorite games began. Football dates to the mid-19th century, when it was a disorganized, mob-style game played at colleges and prep schools. Inspired by a combination of rugby and soccer, masses of players rushed an inflatable ball to a goal area — by any means necessary. In the 1880s, Walter Camp, the Yale football team captain and 'Father of American Football,' made significant rule changes that shaped modern football, including reducing the number of players per team to 11, creating the quarterback position and making touchdowns and field goals worth six and three points each. Games also became much safer after the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) legalized the forward pass — now recognized as the most important rule change in the development of modern football. The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920, and by the 1930s, football was a national phenomenon with the NFL enjoying rapid growth. In 1968, the championship game with its rival, the smaller American Football League, became known as the Super Bowl. The two leagues merged in 1970 to create one NFL with 26 teams to compete for a Super Bowl win. And steel has been an important player in the game the whole way. Read below to find out how! What's your business's game plan for 2012? Make Texas Iron & Metal your MVP when you need new and surplus steel or other metals. You want it, we've got it. Now that's supply on demand! Scoring with Steel • The name of the Pittsburgh Steelers is a tribute to the steel industry • The Pittsburgh Steelers logo is based on the Steelmark logo belonging to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), whose colors represent the benefits of steel: yellow (lightens work), orange (brightens leisure) and blue (widens the world) • Goalposts are made from a combination of steel and aluminum • Helmet faceguards are made from carbon steel Super Bowl XLVI Sunday, February 5 New York Giants vs. New England Patriots Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana 5:30 p.m. CT NBC
Let's Rodeo! Saddle up! It's almost time for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo! Here are some fun facts about how this popular Houston event — and the largest rodeo in the world — rides on steel: • The two massive steel supertrusses that support Reliant Stadium's retractable roof are 84 feet tall, 12 feet wide and weigh 3,750 tons — that's the structural steel equivalent of a 20-story building and the weight of 1,000 cars • The Houston METRO Light Rail line, a main source of transportation to the rodeo, contains 7.5 miles of steel rail • Steel fencing provides pens for the livestock • Thrills offered by the rodeo's carnival rides are supported by steel, including the La Grand Wheel — the largest portable ferris wheel in the Western hemisphere • From the famous rotating stage to the sounds of steel guitars, steel makes the rodeo entertainment possible Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo 2012 February 28 – March 18 Lasso in FREE Rodeo Tickets! Texas Iron and Metal wants to send you to a concert! When you place your next order at our warehouse, sign up to be entered into a raffle to win two free tickets to the rodeo! We will have three drawings — one per week leading up to the rodeo.
A Surplus of Giving Still Need a New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping? Join Texas Iron & Metal in our goal to give more to our community in 2012! Last month, we introduced our new company resolution. If you donate to any of Texas Iron & Metal's preferred charities, we'll match your contribution! You may email or bring your receipt or acknowledgement letter to us in person, or reference 'Texas Iron & Metal' if you donate online. To learn more about these organizations or to donate online, visit: https://aishelhouseorg.clhosting.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/540797/jewish/Donate/lang/en http://www.razoo.com/story/Nechama-Jewish-Disaster-Response-1 https://www.chailifeline.org/donate.php Saving You Green. We're featuring sheet piling and other great deals on our specials page. Head over to our website to check them out! http://www.texasironandmetal.com/specials/index.html
Mind over Matter Metal. Be the first to correctly answer our trivia question and win a FREE T-shirt. Good luck! How many times has a Texas football team played in the Super Bowl? [Click Here] to submit your answer.
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