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Josh Allen and fans of the Buffalo Bills catch now raised $500,000 for the Oishei Kid’s Sanatorium in reminiscence of Allen’s grandmother, Patricia Allen.
The quarterback tweeted his diagram to donate $17,000 himself on Friday night to enlighten the total to half of a million bucks.
Bills fans started sending in donations of $17—representing Allen’s No. 17 jersey—to the clinical institution after the demise of his grandmother grew to alter into public final week following the group’s victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
“Words can no longer actually describe how I actually feel, how my family feels,” Allen informed newshounds Wednesday. “Each time I call my fogeys and let them know the fresh number, they very most attention-grabbing originate bawling staunch by again. And to hang that individuals care and that lots staunch is coming out of a tricky field, it skill the field to myself, it skill the field to my family.”
The Bills Mafia beforehand helped elevate $250,000 for the charity of then Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton in 2018 after the QB’s heroics against the Baltimore Ravens in their season finale helped Buffalo valid a playoff berth for the first time in 17 years.
