SI.com has recognized Je’Rod Cherry as the “Good Guy of the Week.” Je’Rod, you’ll recall, is a member of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Macedonia, Ohio. He was at Momentum, the annual Brethren youth conference, when he felt moved to give up his prized Super Bowl ring to help feed starving children around the world. To read more about his story, click here.
Je’Rod Cherry, former defensive back, New England. Cherry, who played for New England, Philadelphia and New Orleans in a nine-year NFL career, is raffling his 2001 Patriots Super Bowl ring on Nov. 27 to raise money for children’s charities around the world. “I was moved by some pictures I saw of a child in Africa on his deathbed, and in the background waiting was a vulture, in essence, to consume him,” said Cherry, who lives in Ohio now. “What I saw there moved me to say, ‘What can I do to make a difference?’ What can I give sacrificially from myself to show I do have care and concern about this child’s predicament as well as other organizations that help people across the world?”
Cherry says he cherishes the ring, and played football 21 years to get to the pinnacle of the profession. “But using this ring to help children who are starving … and who have no hope will be a greater feeling than what I felt the day I actually won the ring.”
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