As of Sunday afternoon, 2,500 individual donations have been received, totaling more than $ 75,000.
Thousands of fans celebrate the first AFC Championship Game Buffalo Bills since the 1993 season, in a unique way: by donating tens of thousands of dollars to charity that is the American quarterback Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson, supported during his college career in Louisville.
Shortly after Buffalo’s 17-3 victory over the Ravens Saturday night, a match Jackson left during the second half to get into concussion protocol, momentum was generated among Bills fans to support their I support Jackson by donating to Louisville’s’ Blessings in a Backpack ‘.
“It started around 11:30 PM that our box overflowed with donations from Bills fans for Lamar. It has been 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-school children around the world. America that would otherwise go hungry.
According to Grizzle, As of Sunday afternoon, 2,500 individual donations have been received, totaling more than $ 75,000.
This isn’t the first time that Bills fans, affectionately known as the ‘Bills Mafia’, have come together with a charity heart.
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 to Oishei Children’s Hospital earlier this season after it was announced that the quarterback’s grandmother Josh Allen has died.
Grizzle described in one word what has happened since Saturday night: “Unbelievable.”
“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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