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[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

Weak is when someone changes the conversation because his proof isn’t good enough. Burden of proof isn’t on me it’s on you. I read and watched the news all off season and didn’t see any examples of what you claim. You gave two links and only one for an active player. If reality supports your claim you’d have more links of NFL players active in ‘The Cause’ during the last 9 months. Clearly, it doesn’t.

Being active in the community isn't something that is usually on the news. People don't want that stuff on their news. Sure, they all say they want to see good news reported, but it's a lie. People turn in for the bad news. That's why that stuff leads the newscast, that's why major crime and disaster stories lead the news for days and weeks on end. Because if it's all good news, people don't bother to tune in. Anyway, here's a few local stories from the off-season:

• Dontari Poe, Atlanta Falcons Poe has his own foundation that does outreach in his hometown of Memphis as well as places he's played football: Atlanta, KC, and San Francisco.
• Lorenzo Alexander, Buffalo Bills Alexander took 57 Buffalo area kids shopping for school supplies.
• Christian Kirksey, Cleveland Browns Kirksey works with a football camp in his hometown.
• Virgil Green, Denver Broncos Green works with the United Way to get out in the community working with local schools and children
• Malcolm Jenkins & Torrey Smith, Philadelphia Eagles They've worked with former NFL player Anquan Boldin and led trips to meet with Congress, the Philadelphia mayor, and raised money for youth football organizations in Texas, among other things.

So that's about 15-20 minutes of me looking around. I'm not going to do research all day for you, but this is the tip of the iceberg. There are stories from players on every NFL team if you take the time to find them. These guys are out in their communities, are working with children, the police, and politicians, are donating money to help with hurricane cleanup, they are doing a lot.