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Jason Keidel: Real Giants, Veterans On Display For Wounded Warrior Project Benefit CBS New York – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY
For every foolish football player who likens himself to a soldier, there are ten men who get the difference. Many of them were in the room Monday night – blue warriors helping true warriors.
David Tyree, who made the greatest catch in Super Bowl history, spent a moment at the podium and then retreated to a table to sign cards to be sent to soldiers overseas. Nearly a dozen former players were in attendance to promote the charity at Macy’s in Manhattan. Tyree, still obscenely fit, looks like he could make the same play today.
While he spoke to the room, Tyree mentioned Greg Gadson, who served as the de facto captain of the Giants during their title run in 2007. A Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Gadson lost both of his legs when an IED detonated near him in Iraq.
I asked Tyree if the NFL, or any professional sport, does enough to help the troops. “No,” he said flatly, and pondered the pampered world of celebrity. “You almost never come out of your bubble,” he said. “It’s a false sense of reality. All your life you’re told how great you are. But stuff on the field is fleeting. Nights like tonight give me a chance to fill the soul of another human being.”