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Retired NFL Players Team Up In Bristol To Fight Hunger

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Tom Sofield
Members from Magellan, BCOC, and the NFL Alumni’s Philadelphia Chapter pose for a photo inside the HELP Center in Bristol.

In an effort to end hunger, a group of ex-NFL players convened in Bristol Borough on Saturday, December 10.

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Fred Baxter, Irving Fryar, and Justin Renfrow were among the former NFL players who attended the ceremony with Lee Woodall, head of the Philadelphia Chapter of the NFL Alumni Association. Young people in attendance participated in football drills led by the retired players.

The Team Up Against Hunger Food Drive was held by the Bucks County Opportunity Council at the HELP Center in Bristol Borough in association with the Bucks County Behavioral Health and Developmental Programs, the NFL Alumni Association’s Philadelphia Chapter, and Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania.

Over 530 pounds of food were collected during the two-hour event.

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The Team Up Against Hunger Food Drive continued through Friday.

The collected food will be distributed across a network of more than 70 food pantries in the area.

Irving Fryar, Fred Baxter, Lee Woodall and Justin Renfrow pose with BCOC staff and community members outside the HELP Center in Bristol.
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Baxter played with the New York Jets, Chicago Bears, and New England Patriots, while Fryar played with the New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Washington D.C. football team. Renfrow was a member of the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Buffalo Bills, the Calgary Stampeders, BC Lions, and Edmonton Eskimos, and Woodall played with the San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers, and Denver Broncos.

For more information on how to help the Bucks County Opportunity Council and their efforts to fight poverty, click here.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.