The United States Postal Service, with the help of Tony Hawk, Barrett Christy, Matt Hoffman, and the stylin' Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown, used the X Games to introduce their newest postage stamp series to the world on June 25, 1999.

The Extreme Stamp Series features images of skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, and inline. Well, three out of four ain't bad. The four new stamps will be available in post offices around the

Barrett Christy and Tony Hawk with really a really big version of the new stamps.

country next week, but for now the only place you can get them if right here at the X Games. Stamp collectors were waiting in line to get a set of the stamps that are cancelled today with the X Games logo. "This is a pretty big deal to stamp collectors," ESPN's Chris Fowler said. "There are some people who have come from all over the country to get these stamps. We have some stamp freaks here."

ESPN's Chris Fowler took a moment to speak with each of the athletes. He asked Tony Hawk who he thought was on the stamp. "Well, it looks a lot like Andy Macdonald to me," he said.

A guy from the US Postal Service said that to get on a stamp in the old days you had to be a dead president. Now, he said, the post office was trying to create stamps that people could identify with.