Pettigrew, Other NFL Players Work with GM for Kids
This is an excerpt from an article by Tech Center News, printed January 23, 2012.
DETROIT – GMC, together with the NFL, completed its second annual Monday Night Football Tour, with NFL cities reaping the benefits of more than 300 volunteers who built playgrounds as part of United Way’s nationwide effort to get 1.9 million more kids active and healthy by 2018.
Playgrounds were completed in Dallas, Tampa Bay, Detroit, New York City, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans and Seattle. Volunteers, including NFL players like Detroit Lions’ tight end Brandon Pettigrew, contributed more than 1,000 hours of labor.