TheAdvocate- Thomas Morstead might be taking the torn cartilage in his ribs back to Minneapolis sooner than expected.
Morstead, whose toughness and class in Sunday's playoff loss to the Vikings inspired Minnesota natives to start donating to his charity, pledged on Wednesday to personally deliver a check to Children's Minnesota if this week's donations hit $100,000. What You Give Will Grow, Morstead's foundation, has already pulled in more than $60,000 in donations, most of them from the Minnesota area. A Vikings fan started the movement on Reddit after Morstead punted in obvious pain during the playoff game, then came back out onto the field and shook several Minnesota hands as part of the Saints group that was forced to come back out of the locker room for the NFL-mandated conversion try. Morstead's foundation, What You Give Will Grow, is primarily focused on fighting pediatric cancer. Children's Minnesota is a not-for-profit system that includes two hospitals, 12 primary-care clinics, nine specialty-care sites and six rehabilitation clinics. --------- Look, I'm not usually one to critique the reasoning behind the rapid influx of money into a cause as objectively good as the health of kids, but - solely out curiosity - Huh? What? Why? The Minnesota faithful - who are a less than a week removed from wanting a bounty put on the happiness of all Who Dat's - are now donating tens of thousands of dollars to the charity of the Saints punter because he played through an injury he obtained making a tackle that robbed them of a punt return touchdown? All the sudden Vikings' fans are philanthropists because a member of the opposing team came back out of the tunnel to stand their in physical and emotional agony while they lined up to take thee most celebratory of knee? Again, unbelievably happy that ailing children are the beneficiaries, but - unlike Andy Dalton closing his eyes and throwing the Bills a postseason bone - Thomas Morstead isn't the first fundraising NFL player to show some class while persevering through pain in the last 17 years. That's why I have absolutely no choice but to presume that this is just a combination of midwestern generosity and goodwill mixed with a touch of pity. If literally paying whenever your team pulls a rabbit straight out of their ass is the new fad then I can definitely get on board, seeing as I would gladly have made it rain on the foundation of his choosing if Stefon Diggs' lace had come untied and tripped him into fumbling out of the end zone. However, I just want to be clear that the protocol after experiencing the most unlikely of victory has shifted from buying the bar a round to donating to the riddance of disease amongst our youth. Not only because it's a shockingly positive change for a largely degenerate demographic, but also because it's one that makes a hell of a lot more sense than pledging payments on behalf of a banged up punter for being a good sport.
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