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Chris Visser
Tribute-to-Heroes’ Flag Football Challenge
Hall-of-Fame Gator Jack Youngblood Joins Mike Alstott, Brad Culpepper & NFL Alumni in a ‘Tribute-to-Heroes’ Flag Football Challenge versus the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team
It’s wounded amputee team, with Wisconsin native, vs. ex-NFL players
By Meg Jones of the Journal Sentinel
Sure, Jeremy Stengel loves the camaraderie of flag football.
But when he and the rest of the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team take the field against a group of former NFL players this week, it’s game on.
All played football in high school; all lost limbs in Iraq or Afghanistan; all continue to stoke their competitive fires through the amputee football team.
Stengel and a few others from Wisconsin, along with wounded warriors from around the country, are flying to New Jersey on Tuesday for Wednesday’s game at an indoor arena in West Orange against the NFL alumni and 9-11 first responders. The game will be televised on ESPN.
Stengel played against former Green Bay Packers in a flag football game at St. Norbert College last August and in November traveled to Washington, D.C., to play against Washington Redskins alumni.
Sports’ Real Heroes
Byline: MMQB – Andy DeGory
We elevate athletes to absurd heights. But then you’re confronted with a group of people like the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team, and you realize who really deserves the accolades we all-too-casually toss around. Forget… Continue reading
Thousands on hand for inspiring Wounded Warriors game
By Kevin Kernan – New York Post
Take notice, take a stand and take heart.
That is the lesson after spending Wednesday night with real heroes, men who happened to be playing a football game in New Jersey, four days before Super Bowl XLVIII.
Inside Essex County’s Richard J. Codey Arena, ex-Giants receiver Phil McConkey looked around the turf field at the Wounded Warrior Amputee football team.
More than a Game
Redskins game team captain – BJ Ganem
Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team Captain to Appear on David Letterman
New York, NY – Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team Captain, BJ Ganem will appear as a featured guest on The David Letterman show on Mon., Jan., 27 2014, prior to Super Bowl XLVIII to call national attention the WWAFT’s upcoming flag football challenge against the FDNY 9/11 First Responders and NFL Alumni.
Charity Flag Football Game Set For Superbowl Week in Essex County
Punts for a Purpose
Fox 5 – Baltimore
On Friday, Koch met retired Marine Corporal Jeremy Stengel; “Jeremey is a real life hero and the things that he has done and accomplished there in Iraq in war, to be able to read his story… Continue reading
PUNTS FOR A PURPOSE
Byline: www.army.mil
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 18, 2013) — It wasn’t smash-mouth football, but there were moments when the game spilled into a rumble and tumble filled with laughs and friendly bantering between the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team… Continue reading