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The Eagles Gave a 15-Year-Old with Leukemia a One-Day Contract
By Jim Adair
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This morning on the Today Show, there was a segment about the Ronald McDonald House and one of the attendees of the Ronald McDonald Camp, Colin Delaney. Colin is a 15-year-old former middle-school fullback who is battling leukemia and is a die-hard Eagles fan. As you can see in the video below, Colin and a few friends were able to play a game of flag football with LeSean McCoy and Nick Foles (who seems to lead Colin a bit too far on a route but he makes the catch anyway), before Howie Roseman invited him to sit behind the Eagles bench on Sunday night and signed him to a one-day contract.
Howie gave Delaney a jersey with the #1 on the back and his own name (sadly not a Parkey jersey), and it’s always great to see the Eagles — or any sports team — who are in a position of power, to use that power to do cool things like this.
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Kyle: And of course NBC timed this for the Friday before the Eagles-Giants SNF game, also on NBC.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.