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We Didn’t Win a Flag Football Game, but at Least $36,000 went to Charity
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Shout out to NRG for having us out again for the annual charity flag football game at the Eagles’ Novacare Complex.
The gist is that four media teams compete in a small tournament to see who can send the most money to a non-profit group that includes CHOP, Nemours, Philabundance, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Four great organizations that benefit from NRG’s “Choose to Give” program, which allows customers to support local non-profits through payment of their electric and natural gas bills. Since the program launched in 2017, more than $10 million has been shared with eight non-profit partners in total.
We went 0-2 this year, so a big donut, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying. There was a controversial call in our first game (the ref blew a goal line call) and then our defense fell apart in the second game. Pat Gallen of CBS 3 won MVP. That bastard!
But we had fun and did a mic’d up video. Thanks again to NRG for the invite:
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com