Photo Credit: Jason Lavengood

The football spirit is in top gear in the city of Indianapolis now. The Super Bowl Village and NFL Experience are officially open and coming around the 1st turn.

First if you’re visiting from out-of-town, WELCOME TO INDIANAPOLIS! Make yourself at home, unless that means sitting on the couch in your underwear, in that case, put some clothes on and come on out to the party.

Check-out that photo! Is that not the best! What better way to tie some of what Indianapolis is known for in with the NFL and the Super Bowl? A car for each team featuring their logo, colors and motif all rockin’ the Indy Car look of speed and craftsmanship.

As I made my way downtown to the City Market this morning I could already feel the energy surrounding the events that are going to be happening over the next week and a half in this wonderful city. As I left the City Market I noticed Monument Circle wasn’t completely blocked off so I headed that direction. I got a little bit of a view of the 30′ XLVI Roman numerals sitting on the Circle facing down Meridian. I also noticed there were a number of the Indy Food Trucks lined up on the northwest quadrant already serving some great food. There will be different rotations of food trucks each day in different shifts. What a great idea and option for football fans walking around the city.

The city is getting some positive press about how everything is going so far. Many people are already saying Indianapolis is going to be a great host city here, here and that we’ll be ready for anything. I’ll be interested in hearing this guy eat some of his words and hopefully issue an apology after the big game, but most of the commenters on his post have already set him straight on some of his inaccurate facts.

The Social Media Command Center has already been helpful to me as they answered my food truck question earlier this afternoon. My son has been begging me to take him to the food trucks, so I wanted to make sure they’d be around next Wednesday when our family will be heading downtown.

If you’re on Facebook or Twitter it’s almost a constant stream of all the fun people are having. If you’re curious, just follow some of these hashtags on Twitter: #SuperBowl46, #SuperBowl, #XLVI, #SuperBowlIndy, #Social46, #SuperIndy, #SB46, #SB2012, #SBVillage, #Super46.

Or you can of course follow some of these great friends and tweeps: @SuperBowl2012, @AroundIndy, @cjtheisen, @seppichdaily, @mooshinindy, @BgKahuna, @ChuckGose, @PeteThePlanner, @roundpeg, @NaptownBuzz and plenty more if you just watch those hashtags and tweets by everyone else.

I headed over to the Rock-Cola Cafe today for lunch to congratulate them, well more accurately to just fill my stomach with some more of their great food. Feel bad for my really close friends at Papa Roux (@PapaRoux) for not making it to the final two sandwiches, but love the support and excitement he’s been bringing to the city and the east side for all of this.

We’ll be seeing you around town I’m sure. Hit us up in the comments and let us know what you think of your experiences so far in the city. Whether your from here, or visiting from out-of-town. Let’s hear it!

My wife helps our friend sell his beyond organic poultry, pork, beef at the Indy Winter Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. The market is located at the City Market in downtown Indianapolis and my wife has struck up a friendship with Cara Dafforn with U-Relish Farm.

U-Relish Farm provides crock pot meals that are perfect for single parents, college students, busy professionals and outdoorsy types and of course just busy families like ours that want to have great food, at a great price that’s delicious and ready with very little effort.

Offering meals-in-a-minute, U-Relish Farm’s promise is simple: Place the package of regionally-sourced ingredients into a crock pot in the morning and when you get home there is a slow cooked meal that is preservative free, nutrient dense and delicious.

U-Relish Farm is among the tenants in the City Market preparing for the SUPER BOWL. U-Relish Farm at the Indianapolis City Market is realization of its vision of becoming a destination for artisan-crafted foods and gourmet retail products. Furthering our local food safety and fostering a global perspective for saving resources.

To that end U-Relish Farm celebrates our out of town guest with some new menu offerings including but not limited to Jerky Rounds, Gluten Free Crackers along with our peas, beans and lentils meals for the crockpot.

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About U-Relish Farm – Opening its first franchise in 2010 at the Winter’s Market of the Original Farmer’s Market at City Market in Indianapolis. U R fulfilled by U-Relish Farm’s  dedication to helping families and individuals manage their money more effectively through the use of a slow cooker. U-Relish Farms progress can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Another Project of Eel River Marketing

U-Relish Farm • Main Market House • 222 East Market Street,
 Indianapolis, IN •46204 • @CaraDafforn • www.u-relish.com

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Click here to view the embedded video.

Tonight he’ll be hosting his 3rd event at Birdy’s Bar and Grill. Check-out this promo video for this 3rd installment!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Tonight’s featured acts include:

• Coping Method
• Jeremy Johnson & The Bleeding Keys
• The American Night
• Eyes on Fire
• The Red Wire
• Grace@Arms

The Indiana Dads Expo itself will take place on May 21 at the Forest Manor Development Center.

It is designed to help men to be more effective fathers, and will last from 9-3 at the Forest Manor Development Center. Admission is $10 prior to the event and $15 the day of the event.

Dads with proof of free and reduced lunch status automatically get a 50% scholarship. Lunch will be provided for all Dads who register prior to the event; every effort will be made to provide lunch for those who sign up the day of the event.

The workshops will last fifty (50) minutes and cover a variety of topics of critical interest to dads.

Photo Credit: Colts.com Fan Cam

As you can kind of see from all the little smiley faces on the photo, you can zoom in and find yourself in the stands and then tag the photo that you were there.

I think this is a very cool idea. I’ve seen similar events, like BlogIndiana, where a large group photo is taken and then shared on Facebook, then attendees are encouraged to tag themselves in the photos. With the functions of Facebook, this allows the photo, and ultimately the event, to be widely promoted on the network. The same can be true of the Colts organization sharing this photo. Hopefully they’ll be doing this for all future games.

Colts owner Jim Irsay has been getting some media attention lately with his activity on Twitter. Also at the Titans game, they gave away a Toyota Prius and $4000 cash to one of his Twitter followers after they correctly guessed the number of footballs that were stuffed into the Prius, a promotion that some may consider genius. Others may think the sometimes incoherent ramblings by Irsay on Twitter are reminiscent of those of Paula Abdul on American Idol’s judging panel. I on the other hand think both individuals are just unique human beings and I enjoy hearing what they have to say most of the time.

Also performing that night will be John Mark McMillan and Three Union. It’s sure to be a great evening with lots of great music.

You can get more information about the concert on the Mission Notes | Christian Music blog.

Tickets are available through Edan Concerts and iTickets.com

For those in the Indianapolis and surrounding areas you can now learn how to answer those questions and give yourself more of the “Protective Thinking” that you need.

Learn what it takes to keep yourself and your family safe.

Escape Plan has partnered with Indy Boot Camps to offer their “Protective Thinking” self defense series for women.

It’s been a couple of months now since Blog Indiana was the big hit in Indianapolis. If you weren’t able to make it to the blogging conference and would like to catch-up on some of the content that was shared, here’s your chance.

Three of the presenters will be sharing their sessions again and that should be of interest to business bloggers and anyone else that might be interested in trying to make profit from their blogging.

Class size is limited so you’ll want to register for the sessions today. You can register for individual events or come to all three.

For more information and details, visit the Irvington Office Center website.

Event Sponsored by:

• Round Peg – Small business marketing 
• Seppichdaily – ghost tweeting services
• Deep Ripples – professional SEO company