Starting Sunday at noon, 2,500 individual donations were received, totaling over $ 75,000.
Thousands of fans celebrate the first AFC championship game Buffalo Bills starting in the 1993 season, in a unique way: by donating tens of thousands of dollars to a charity that the Los Angeles quarterback Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson, supported during his university career in Louisville.
Shortly after Buffalo won 17-3 Saturday night over the Ravens, a game Jackson left in the second half to enter the concussion protocol, an impulse was generated among Bills fans to show their support. Jackson donating to Louisville’s “Blessings in a Backpack.”
“It started around 23:30 that our box started to overflow with donations from Bills fans for Lamar. It was overwhelming, in a good way, ”said Nikki Grizzle of“ Blessings in a Backpack, ”whose mission is to mobilize communities, people and resources to provide weekend food for first graders around the world. America that would otherwise be hungry.
According to Grizzle, From Sunday at noon, 2,500 individual donations were received, totaling over $ 75,000.
It’s not the first time Bills fans, affectionately known as “Bills Mafia”, have come together with a charitable heart.
At the end of the regular season 2017, when the defender Andy Dalton led to Cincinnati Bengals in a win that helped Bills qualify for the playoffs, they did something similar for Dalton.
Bills fans also donated tens of thousands of dollars earlier this season to Oishei Children’s Hospital after it was announced that the defender’s grandmother Josh Allen he died.
Grizzle described what happened Saturday night in one word: “Incredible.”
– And keep coming.
Lamar Jackson made time to sign autographs for a group of Bills and Ravens fans after the playoff game 🙌
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