As of noon Sunday, 2,500 individual donations have been received, for a total of more than $ 75,000
Thousands of fans celebrate the first AFC Championship Game for Buffalo Bills since the 1993 season, in a unique way: giving tens of thousands of dollars to a charity that the field marshal of the Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson, Supported during his college career in Louisville.
Shortly after Buffalo’s 17-3 victory Saturday night over the Ravens, a game Jackson left in the second half to enter the concussion protocol, a boost was generated among fans of Bills to show his support for Jackson by donating to the ‘Blessings in a Backpack’ in Louisville.
“It started around 11:30 pm when our box office started to overflow — with donations from Bills for Lamar fans. It’s been overwhelming, in a good way,” said Nikki Grizzle of ‘Blessings in a Backpack ‘, the mission is to mobilize communities, people and resources to provide food on weekends to first graders across the United States who would otherwise go hungry.
According to Grizzle, as of noon on Sunday, 2,500 individual donations have been received, for a total of more than $ 75,000.
This isn’t the first time Bills fans, affectionately known as ‘Mafia Bills’, have come together with a charitable choir.
At the end of the 2017 regular season, when the quarterback Andy Dalton led to Cincinnati Bengals to a win that helped the Bills qualify for the playoffs, they did something similar for Dalton.
Bills fans also donated tens of thousands of dollars earlier this campaign to Oishei Children’s Hospital after it was announced that the field marshal’s grandmother Josh Allen he was dead.
Grizzle described what has happened since Saturday night, in one word: “Amazing.”
“And they keep coming.”
Lamar Jackson took the time to sign autographs for a group of Bills and Ravens fans after the playoff game 🙌
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