We are famous! (CFF/football)

December 29, 2000

We were contacted by a friend at the South Bay chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis

Foundation earlier this week because of an event that was to happen today.

The first Bowl by the Bay is happening this Sunday, a football game between

Fresno State and the Air Force Academy. The game organizers picked CFF as

their charity of choice, and so they had Ricky and Andy and some other kids

with CF and their siblings come to their press conference/party this morning.

They gave away TONS of stuffed animals, hats, watches, team programs,

t-shirts, pennants, you name it! The boys got TONS of stuff and because

Ricky was having a conversation with one of the star Fresno players, Tim,

#51, who is apparently one of the star players, tons of pictures and video

were taken of the boys. We also got 6 really good tickets to the game!

I was actually interviewed by a guy from Fresno's Fox channel 26, and the

interview will appear on their 10 o'clock news tonight. If anyone out there

among our friends is from Fresno, or knows someone from there, could you tape

the interview for us? It sure would be great. Please let me know! I think

we might also be on the national Fox Sports Channel, so if anyone's able to

see the coverage on there, we might be featured on there, and a tape would be

great. Thank you so much!

We were overwhelmed with the generosity of these teams and organizers. The

football players were so sweet with the boys. We got lots of pictures

(Polaroid, taken by one of the organizer guys, and regular, which I took

myself) which we'll put up on the family web page soon -- look for them.

This was a terrific event and I just wish more of the CF community could have

been there to enjoy it!

Becky Whicker

beckerbuns@... or letscurecf@...

mom of Ricky (11/26/95) with CF and Andy (3/18/98) no CF

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