There’s a silver lining to the gut-wrenching events during Monday Night Football. In that case, it might be this: two years ago, when he was a rookie, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin started a GoFundMe page to raise 25 hundred bucks to buy toys for needy kids in his hometown near Pittsburgh. On Monday night, thousands of people who searched for the story found that page. And since then, they’ve donated more than five million dollars. Hamlin’s foundation says the money will be used for more than just toys.
In 2020, at the end of his final year at Pitt, Damar Hamlin organized a toy drive for kids in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa. This is the young man who went down on the field tonight in Cincinnati. He is a man; not a number on a jersey. Prayers for Damar. pic.twitter.com/mSa80YklRK
— Keith O’Brien (@KeithOB) January 3, 2023
Football is family ❤️ pic.twitter.com/bGbCMGCIWG
— NFL (@NFL) January 3, 2023