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As a Pro Bowl punter for the Buffalo Bills, Brian Moorman will be all over the place this holiday season — from Kansas City this weekend to Atlanta the Sunday after Christmas.
His presence, however, will be felt throughout the local community all this month.
The proceeds from sales of hats specially designed and autographed by Moorman are in, and they benefit the local Angels Among Us group to the tune of $3,500. Moorman, a former football and track standout at Pittsburg State University, visited the Pittsburg Jock’s Nitch in early September to sign and sell the hats.
Angels Among Us is a charity group that supports local cancer patients and their families in Crawford and Cherokee counties. Its founder and coordinator, Diana Polston, said the money raised by the hat sales will go toward the organization’s annual Christmas giving.
“This is wonderful,” she said. “All of this will go toward cancer patients for Christmas.”
A total of 144 hats were sold in September, both at Jock’s Nitch and at Gorilla Village on the PSU campus.
Polston said corporate sponsors donated money to pay for the costs of the hats, leaving every dime from sales for Angels Among Us.
“It was so great that we sold all of the hats and even more great that all of the proceeds went to Angels Among Us,” Polston said.
Moorman told The Morning Sun in September that the idea to sell the hats started when New Era, a Buffalo-based apparel company, started work on a hat and T-shirt combination for he and four teammates.
“I always wanted to do something for charity, and I thought this would be perfect,” Moorman said. “Pittsburg is like my second home and it was important for (my wife) Amber and I to do something to give back to the community.”
As a Pro Bowl punter for the Buffalo Bills, Brian Moorman will be all over the place this holiday season — from Kansas City this weekend to Atlanta the Sunday after Christmas.
His presence, however, will be felt throughout the local community all this month.
The proceeds from sales of hats specially designed and autographed by Moorman are in, and they benefit the local Angels Among Us group to the tune of $3,500. Moorman, a former football and track standout at Pittsburg State University, visited the Pittsburg Jock’s Nitch in early September to sign and sell the hats.
Angels Among Us is a charity group that supports local cancer patients and their families in Crawford and Cherokee counties. Its founder and coordinator, Diana Polston, said the money raised by the hat sales will go toward the organization’s annual Christmas giving.
“This is wonderful,” she said. “All of this will go toward cancer patients for Christmas.”
A total of 144 hats were sold in September, both at Jock’s Nitch and at Gorilla Village on the PSU campus.
Polston said corporate sponsors donated money to pay for the costs of the hats, leaving every dime from sales for Angels Among Us.
“It was so great that we sold all of the hats and even more great that all of the proceeds went to Angels Among Us,” Polston said.
Moorman told The Morning Sun in September that the idea to sell the hats started when New Era, a Buffalo-based apparel company, started work on a hat and T-shirt combination for he and four teammates.
“I always wanted to do something for charity, and I thought this would be perfect,” Moorman said. “Pittsburg is like my second home and it was important for (my wife) Amber and I to do something to give back to the community.”
