Daily Dawg Tags: Browns get it when it comes to community service
By Thomas Moore
The Cleveland Browns may not do much winning on the field, but that hasn’t stopped them from working hard to make a difference in the community.
During his talk on Wednesday to The Cleveland Press Club, executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown made an interesting point about life in the current-day NFL.
The media, Brown pointed out, would rather highlight the one or two players on a team that are causing trouble off the field than the dozens of players who are devoting part of their free time to giving back to the community.
One example of the work that the players do around Cleveland came on Tuesday, when a group visited University Hospitals’ Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital as part of the club’s First and Ten volunteering campaign.
The players included Demario Davis, Christian Kirksey, Cam Johnson, Cody Parkey, Ricardo Louis and Shon Coleman, who overcame cancer while playing at Auburn and took time to speak one-on-one with Josh Herron, who was diagnosed with leukemia, according to the team’s website.
The team website also notes that the club’s First and Ten program makes the Browns “the only NFL club to promote a long-term volunteering program that unifies the team and its entire fan base, with the goal of impacting every individual’s city across the globe, as well as the franchise’s local community.”
It may a small thing, and it may not matter to many fans, but it is nice to see that the Browns get it when it comes to community service.
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NFL news:
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Setting up every QB battle: Who’s leading, which rookies could start (ESPN)
"It’s May, and if you don’t know who your team’s starting quarterback is … well, it could be a while before you do. With OTAs about to get underway, minicamps still a month away and oodles of time before training camp, NFL teams that have quarterback questions aren’t in a hurry to get them answered. These teams will spend as much time as they can between now and September making sure they get this just right. Because if you get your quarterback wrong, not much else about your season matters."
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