Free 2024 Angler's Almanac

Free 2024 Angler’s Almanac

Here's a free 2024 Angler's Almanac for all you fisherpeople out there in the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic region! This fishing magazine is packed with 200+ pages of stories, tackle, and techniques to help you catch more fish this year. I'll even throw in my own free tip: phishers like to send “to good to be true” messages to steal your credentials, so be sure to verify they're legit before sending them your personal or credit card information.

Wait…I believe I'm thinking of the wrong fish here…

This is an annual freebie they've offered for over 7 years now and its nice to see it return in 2024!


Free Kids Youth Hockey

Free Kids Youth Hockey on Feb 24, 2024

Registration is now open for the next National Kids Try Hockey Event!

On Saturday, February 24, kids ages 4 to 9 get to try hockey for free at over 450 USA Hockey locations in celebration of National Hockey Week! Participating locations will have limited equipment available to use, so you won't stress over building a homemade pair of ice skates using butcher knives and duct tape.

As a kid, I swore I hated sports and would never play them. My parents nevertheless signed me up for baseball against my extremely vocal protests and adamant promises that I'd simply sit down and never try. 30 years later, I'm a massive baseball fan and couldn't be more thankful they ignored me! Who knows, maybe your kid is the next Wayne Gretzky and will only discover their love for the game thanks to this freebie.


Free Racing Hero Card

Free Racing Hero Cards

Did you know we can get free racing Hero Cards from a bunch of NASCAR drivers? At least I think they're racers. Half of these names sound made up, but I'm told they're actual drivers!

Hero cards are unique sports collectibles. They're custom-printed cards designed to promote a race team, primary drivers, and their sponsors. They're also bigger than a baseball card, as NASCAR hero cards typically come in either 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 sizes.

Many of the free hero cards I found below come either from the racing team themselves or one of their sponsors. If you're into racing or collecting cool new memorabilia, check out all the freebies below to get started!

Entries with NEW! were recently added in 2024.

Zachary Tinkle has to be my favorite name. But he's no Dick Trickle!

Know of any free hero cards that I missed? Please let me know in the comments!

Previously Offered Hero Cards

These free cards were previously offered in past years. Sometimes they manufacture more than they give away each season, so you can still request one a year later if you enjoy collecting them. I'll try to leave the links up as long as the signup form is active, but if the name has a strikethrough line then it's no longer available.

  • Brad Keselowski
  • Brendan Gaughan
  • Carl Long Veedverks
  • Chris Buescher
  • Clint Bowyer
  • Connor Mosack
  • Fastenal Racing Crew – Looks to come with a free members only decal as well.
  • Harrison Butler – This is for his 2022 card.
  • Hudson Bulger
  • John Force
  • Kevin & Keelan – This is for their 2022 card.
  • Kercie Jung
  • Logan Misuraca
  • Matt Snider
  • Michael Annett via TMC Trans Racing
  • Procore Racing Crew
  • Quin Houff
  • Ryan Blaney – Digital only
  • Ryan Newman – Needs a SASE
  • Tricky…the mascot? Or maybe there's a furry NASCAR driver out there?! 🤣
  • Zac Taylor

Kids Bowl Free all Summer

Kids Bowl Free All Summer

It's about that time for the return of the favorite kids bowl free all summer deal in 2023! Sign up and your children will get two free games of bowling every day this summer. That's valued at over $500.

Not a bad deal if you ask me. Though to be fair nobody asked me. I guess that's what I get for being single, living alone, and working from home.

Too bad I still don't live at home, because my family are pretty big bowlers. Oh, we don't take the actual bowling part too seriously. We're more of a “who wants another round of nachos and beer?” type enthusiasts! 😀


Free mlb.tv streaming account

Free MLB.tv Subscription for T-Mobile Customers

Oh man, I AM HYPED! Y'all may remember T-Mobile has offered free MLB.tv subscriptions since 2016. This $150 value freebie allows baseball fans to stream, watch, and listen to every out-of-market baseball game throughout the season, which is great when you're a Seattle Mariners fan living on the east coast.

Well, I'm thrilled to announce the offer has returned for 2024! If you or anyone you know loves baseball, be sure to share this freebie since Sprint & T-Mobile customers can sign up for a free mlb.tv subscription between March 26 and April 2.

Save and redeem in the T-Mobile Tuesdays app between March 26, 2024, at 5:00 a.m. ET and April 2, 2024, 4:59 a.m. ET to receive a free subscription to MLB.TV for the entire 2024 season. Limited-time offer, subject to change. Only for T-Mobile, Sprint and Metro by T-Mobile customers on qualifying plans who have T-Mobile Tuesdays.

You must redeem this offer between March 26 and April 2!. Here's how:

  1. Open the T-Mobile Tuesday app or head to T-Mobile's MLB promo page on your mobile device so you download the app from there.
  2. Sign into your T-Mobile account, then click “Save”
  3. Select offer from “My Stuff” and tap the “Reddem” button
  4. Log in or register at MLB.tv with your T-Mobile phone number
  5. That's it! Your free subscription will now run through February 2024.

I was pleasantly surprised to see both contract plans as well as customers on their no contract, month-to-month plan qualify for this free mlb.tv subscription.

Man, a free mlb.tv subscription is music to my ears. It's been well documented that I'm a glutton for punishment. There's no other explanation for why I'm still a hardcore Seattle Mariners fan after the past two decades. 2021 ended in a heartbreaker – we came THIS CLOSE to finally making the playoffs and finally breaking their streak of the longest active postseason drought in all pro American sports. Oh well, with this freebie, I'll be able to watch Seattle extend their misery another year. Just like my dating life!

OH BABY, THERE'S A GREAT REASON TO BE A MARINERS FAN NOW! The drought is over and glorious success is ahead of us 😀


Free Sports Kids Club

Free Professional Sports Kids Clubs

Since the dawn of HIF, major sports teams and their affiliates have offered free kids clubs. These offers are continually changing, but this week I compiled all of them into the post below! I'll continue updating this post going forward as new kids kits are released or updated.

So what do you get with a free kids club? Well, that depends on the team! The most common freebie are fan badges, lanyards, and draw string backpacks. However, some teams offer free tickets to games! How cool is that?!

Paid kids clubs are sadly more plentiful. While some are insanely expensive, I noticed quite a few in the $20-$30 range that came with nice swag and multiple tickets to games. Depending on your family plans to attend game, some of these look to be decent offers where you can save some money with the little ones.

Finally, I've included all the dud teams as well, who offer no free or paid kids club. I've also included instructions on where to look for possible new clubs, since these change with each sports new season!

As always, please share in the comments if you find any new or altered sports kids clubs!

Free Baseball Kids Clubs ⚾

Professional MLB teams are tied for the most free kids clubs (9) out of 30 teams. That's 30% of teams offering offering freebies! They also lead the way in paid kids clubs at 18, leaving only 3 professional baseball teams offering no kids club whatsoever.

  • Arizona Diamondbacks
  • Fans ages 15 and younger are eligible for this free club. In addition to a membership card, you win prizes for each game you attend. Kids also received one free Sunday ticket at Chase Field during 2019! While the free tickets didn't happen in 2020 since there were no fans at the stadium, it's safe to guess they'll return in 2021.

  • Atlanta Braves
  • This free club is for Braves fans ages 14 and under. They get a free Braves passport and lanyard, opportunity to earn prizes for attending Braves home games, and ongoing invitations to exclusive, Kids Club only events. There's also a paid, upgraded club available with more perks.

  • Boston Red Sox
  • Kids get a free lanyard & member card, plus one free ticket per member (up to four members) with the purchase of an adult ticket!

  • Chicago White Six
  • I first wrote about the free White Sox kids club back in 2009 and I love to see they're still going strong! This year, kids get a free personalized ID badge. These give to access a new prize each month at the Kids Club Prize Redemption Kiosk.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers
  • The Jr. Dodgers kids club is free, but it doesn't really say what you'll get. But if you're a true blue fan, it doesn't matter – free is free!

  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • The Bucaroos Kids Club is exclusively for Pirates fans 14 & younger. Along with the paid upgrade option, the free club gets you a free Chick-fil-A sandwich or nuggets and a free Pirates ticket voucher! This is the first kids club I've come across that offers free food!

  • San Diego Padres
  • The Compadres Kids is for kids 14 and younger. You earn prizes for attending games, but the site also mentions earning points to redeem for rewards and experiences. Compadres Kids also get access to events like Kids Sunday Signings, Kids Run the Bases and Catch on the Field.

  • Seattle Mariners
  • The Mariners toyed with a paid-only kids club in 2020-2022, but as of 2023 it's back to being free for all! Sign up to get a free Mariners Kids Club Hat, official kids club badge and lanyard, and even 1 free Mariners ticket!

  • Tampa Bay Rays
  • Their free plan includes special ticket offers, a free Rays Rookies patch, exclusive experiences and events, and a coupon for the Rays Bay Republic team store.

  • Washington Nationals
  • The Jr. Nats Rookie Membership is available for all fans ages 4-12. It comes with a membership card and lanyard, plus meet and greet opportunities. There's also a paid, upgraded club available with more perks.

Paid Baseball Kids Clubs

No Kids Club Available

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any sort of kids club at all for these final teams. Maybe we should tweet at them and ask why?! If you get a response, be sure to tweet at @heyitsfree and let us know!

Free Basketball Kids Clubs 🏀

They say basketball is the most global American sport. Well, the NBA is doing a good job of exporting freebies! Professional basketball teams have overtaken their baseball counterparts for the most free kids clubs, offering 13 free clubs, up from 9 last year. However, they only have 4 paid clubs, leaving a whopping 13, or 43%, of teams with no kids clubs at all!

Now, for the bad news. The NBA season is currently suspended because of the pandemic! As such, many of the following free kids clubs might be closed for registration. However, they offered a free program for 2019-2020 and in most cases are still taking applications.

Paid Basketball Kids Clubs

No Kids Club Available

Again, these teams decided not to offer a kids club for some reason. Feel free to inquire on Twitter as to why. If you get a response, be sure to tweet at @heyitsfree and let us know!

Free Football Kids Clubs 🏈

The NFL must have gotten the message! While last year they only had 4 free clubs in the league, it's now up to 8 free kids clubs out of 32 teams! That means 25% of the league offers a free kids fan club.

Another 8 (25%) look to have paid clubs for 2020. That leaves 14 (44%!) of teams with no kids club to speak of. Smart business?

Paid Football Kids Clubs

No Kids Club Available

Choose Your Adventure: You have a multi-billion dollar industry rife with long-term safety issues. Do you A: invest in both safety and the next generation of fans by offering kids clubs or B: Ignore kids altogether. If you're the following teams, you picked B!

Ask what's the deal to each team's Twitter. Tag us @heyitsfree and we'll help get an answer!

Free Hockey Kids Clubs 🏒

Uh oh, hockey. Professional hockey teams barely eked out victory over football last year, but have fallen to last place this year. They remain at 5 teams out of 31 (16%) providing free kids clubs for their young fans. That's the lowest percentage of all the major US sports.

Of the remaining clubs, 11 (35%) are paid and 14 (45%) have zilch.

Hockey has a very similar schedule to basketball. Like the NBA, the NHL is also entering their playoffs at time of publication. We should have more info on the 2019-2020 kids clubs later this year.

Paid Hockey Kids Clubs

No Kids Club Available

What the puck?! You know the deal by now. Hit us up @heyitsfree if you need help holding their feet to the ice!

Free Minor League Baseball Kids Clubs

Don't ask how I found all these free minor league baseball kids clubs! When I started looking, my expectations were rather low. I was pleasantly to find seven great free clubs! If you live near any of these towns, be sure to check them out.

Another idea is to search for your favorite college sports teams kids clubs! There are thousands of colleges across the country and some of them are bound to have some awesome free programs! If you find any, please don't be shy and share in the comments!

If you know of any free clubs, kits, or caboodles I missed, please share!


Free Game of Bowling

Free Bowling

2021 Update: Unfortunately, this free game of bowling offer has expired. However, the annual kids bowl free during summer deal is back!

GoBowling and Pepsi are offering coupons good for a free game of bowling through 1/31/18. They're worth up to $6, don't include shoe rental, and must be redeemed between 8:30am to 5:30pm.

I guess my main question is who in the world is bowling before 8am?!

You can search for participating locations here.

“Fun” sidenote, I first published this offer in 2005. If this freebie was a human, it'd almost be a teenager and that blows my little mind.


Olympic Village Freebies & Amenities

Top Olympic Freebies – Paris 2024 Edition!

Whoa, the Olympics kind of snuck up on me this time around! For anybody new to the games, you might not realize that most Olympics athletes stay in what's called the Olympic Village.

And do you know what they have there? Freebies upon freebies upon glorious freebies.

So while you and I have zero access to them, I thought it might be cool to list some of the awesome freebies that the world's finest athletes are enjoying right now at the Paris 2024 Olympic games and beyond!

Note: I originally published this for the Beijing 2008 games, but I've updated it with new information and links every two years since!

Free Food

Free food in Olympic cafeteria for athletes

You'd think that elite athletes would eat nothing but healthy food during their training and for the most part, you'd be correct. However, since it takes a ton of work to make it to the Olympics, most athletes tend to take a break once they're finished competing and enjoy the finer aspects of dining. As Dutch rower Michiel Bartman put it:

The most fun thing I remember from the Olympic Village was the food court. It was huge, almost the size of two football fields, and great. So many choices of different and delicious food; you could try every night something else. McDonald’s is one of International Olympic Committee sponsors and were prominently placed in the food court as well.

Irish rugby player Harry McNulty shows a bit more of the cafeteria option in Tokyo 2021 when he took us on a tour in this video.

Of course, there's more than just junk food and candy. The Village has a ginormous cafeteria stocked with every food imaginable: fresh fruits, veggies, meat, breads, drinks, and everything else imaginable. If they don't have what you want, chances are one of the dozens of chefs cooking will be able to whip it up for you. As a matter of fact, I tried to apply for a spot as one of the chefs, but was told that my peanut butter & jelly sandwich specialty was already covered by somebody else.

The athletes don't have to worry about tainted food, either. After fears that commonly used pesticides and growth hormones might seep into the foods and trigger false positives during Olympic drug testing, China set up hundreds of organic farms to specifically grow food for the Olympians. However, they even went one step further and set up a tracking system for every single food item. So if a track star from Uganda thinks his carrots taste a little funny, it'll be no trouble tracking their history to see where they were grown and who handled them.

A quick side note: guess how many apples were eaten in the Beijing 2008 cafeteria? An estimated one million. Or to put it another way, they ate about 936,000 bananas, which is enough to circle the Olympic marathon route more than three times.

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