Going the Extra Mile or Two
Greetings from Lift Up America!
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Three Colorado Buffalo players, Austin Bisnow, Chris Perri, and Demetrius Sumler, helped an elderly gentleman (left) at the Independence Bowl Food Distribution in Shreveport, LA.
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Fairgrounds Field , LA -- December 27, 2007
Athletes are often praised for giving 110% in the game. At the Lift Up America Independence Bowl Food Distribution, several Colorado Buffalo football players really did go the extra mile or two. Player participation in the food distribution was voluntary, but the ENTIRE team showed up to help!
"I want to relay one story of an elderly gentleman from one of the surrounding communities who arrived by himself looking for assistance. He lived two miles from the site and had heard that food was being distributed. Three Colorado players took matters into their own hands and offered to carry the boxes two miles back to his home and began the trek. Shreveport Police intervened and offered to load the food into a vehicle and transport him home. With a police escort, the players loaded the food in a Bowl courtesy-vehicle and were escorted by Shreveport Police back to the gentlemen’s home. The players carried the boxes into the man’s home for him."
- Joe Darwin, 2007 Independence Bowl Chairman
When we work together we really can lift up America - a mile or two at a time.
For more on Lift Up America, please visit www.liftupamerica.org.
Yours for helping Lift Up America,
Dave Hannah
Chairman of LUA
Photo Gallery
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A crowd gathered at Fairgrounds Field for the first annual Independence Bowl Food Distribution.
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Spencer Tillman, CBS Sports broadcaster (at podium) welcomed the Colorado Buffalo football team and others to the distribution. The Buffs were preparing to meet the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2007 PetroSun Independence Bowl.
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Dave Hannah, Chairman & CEO of Lift Up America, shared the vision of bringing hope and meeting needs in cities all over America.
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The Colorado Buffalos' great teamwork helped make quick work of these hunger relief efforts in the Shreveport area.
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Over 25 local charitable agencies were able to stock up on much-need protein for the winter months.
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Tyson Foods donated a truck load of over 30,000 pounds of chicken to help fight hunger in the area. Local agencies were grateful to receive these ten pound boxes of chicken.
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