Chiefs’ fans honor Josh Allen with donations to local Buffalo hospital
The Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen lost in heartbreaking fashion on Sunday night to the Kansas City Chiefs. Even after taking the lead twice in the final two minutes, Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes would lead his team back on both occasions and tie the game up in the closing seconds. The Chiefs would get the ball first in overtime and Mahomes would lead his team on a touchdown drive to win the game.
Since that game, the Kansas City Chiefs fans have taken a page out of BillsMafia playbook and have made donations of $13 to Oishei Children’s Hospital and on Wednesday morning the hospital tweeted that donations were over $178,000.
The donation amount is reflective of 13 seconds, which is how much time was left in regulation as the Kansas City Chiefs took the field. The Chiefs would pick up 44 yards on that drive before Harrison Butker made a 48-yard field goal to send it to overtime.
Josh Allen closely connected to the Oisehei Children’s Hospital
This is not the first time that Oisehei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo has been the beneficiary of donations in honor of Josh Allen. Last year, Josh Allen’s grandmother passed away shortly before the Buffalo Bills were set to play the Seattle Seahawks.
Allen would go on to play in the game, and the Bills would win 44-34. After the game, fans found out about Allen’s loss and began making donations to the hospital in the amount of $17 dollars, in honor of Allen’s jersey number.
Those donations would end up amounting to over $1 million dollars in roughly a month. This past November, the hospital unveiled that there was now a wing of the hospital dedicated to his grandmother called the Patricia Allen Pediatric Recovery Wing.
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