Published 6/26/2009
by Lloyd Vance
at Bleacher Report - NFL
Within the pro football community, competition and outworking your opponent are usually the norm including within the media. It seems 365 days a year football media types are competing for scoops, news, and inside information.
But there are times when differences and allegiances are put aside to bring the football world closer together. No I am not talking about the over-glamorized Super Bowl week festivities that serve as the unofficial NFL convention each year.
The perfect setting for all walks of professional football to meld recently was in West Orange, NJ of all places on the evening of Thursday May 18th.
In an event at Mayfair Farms organized by veteran NFL Senior Writer Peter King over $150,000 dollars was raised in efforts to help support pro football writers’ grandfather Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman in his battle to recover from three strokes. As many of you know Dr. Z is a Hall of Fame football writer of over three decades, who brought the ...
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