Fantastic gesture by the Jets and there's close to no doubt in my mind this is solely because Chris Johnson is at the helm as opposed to Woody. Chris is extremely likable. We'll see how he handles this important offseason, but on a human level he's been a homerun for this organization.
Good for Chris. Now he needs to commit money to combat NFL inequality and reduce barriers to winning games.
Good for the players and Jets' organization. I'm proud of them. I just wish it had been more than $850k. The players and team kicked in $400k, and Chris (no mention of Woody) gave $250k. Chris and Woody could have easily kicked in at least $.6 million and brought it up to $1 million, but I guess something is better than nothing. Kudos to Beacham and Josh McCown. It sounds like they, along with some other players spearheaded the effort.
I wouldn't exactly call The New York Foundling Hospital a 'social justice' organization. At least it wasn't when I was born. It's world's better now, the social workers are good people in a draining and often thankless job, most are for open records and do wonderful things for displaced children in the system; but it's the agency that handled my sealed/closed records adoption. Let's just say that everything about me was a bald-faced fckn lie, including willfully holding me up in foster care for 7 months - because they could - and lying to my birthmother's face without a twitch of conscience. And WHY they held me up in foster care is even more egregious. Don't even get me started on how they treated my birthfather and his family. Rights, what rights? There weren't any. My relationship with the RCC started out on the wrong foot from day one, including my baptism which I had no choice about, my phony baptismal record, and my fake birth certificate. Read up on them/their history, including the orphan trains. It's not pretty. Just because they were nuns doesn't mean they were nice. Far from it. Lying sacks of shit mostly. And I was born in 1964, not 1864, just for some perspective. EDIT & P.S.: I've mentioned this before, but if anyone on here is doing a sealed records adoption search and needs help, please feel free to PM me. Do NOT waste your $ on a PI. There are a lot of vultures out there. I didn't pay anyone a dime, and this was before the internet. International Soundex and the Genealogy Room at The NY Public Library are your friend.
I’m wondering if there’s some sort of stipulation with donations over 800k because it’s the third donation of that exact amount I’ve read about in the past few days. It certainly sounds better to say you donated one million dollars...
Yeah, in all the time we've known one another the details never came up. And there is still a boatload more of details. You should read about Georgia Tann (from Tennessee). What a rotten bitch. And of course she died before she could be prosecuted. She was in the business of blatantly stealing children from poor (mostly married) women, lying that the baby was stillborn, and re-selling them to the highest bidder on the Black Market, a/ka/a HUMAN TRAFFICKING. She sold over 5,000 children which in today's $ equals roughly $300 million dollars. She got away with it for decades because she was politically connected. Entire families were destroyed because of her, almost all of the records were falsified so all those years later re-unification was in most cases virtually impossible. That wretched woman had so much blood on her hands it's mind-numbing, especially since many children in her shitty adoption agency/home died on her watch. Ugh, and you should read about the atrocities in Ireland. It is now openly considered and acknowledged as a national stain. That being said, The New York Foundling did a lot of beyond shady shit back in the day that they aren't the least bit proud of now, and the shady shit was all done under the guise of religion (what else). I'm not saying all of the nuns were bad (they weren't), but they certainly thought it was OK to lie to people at the very least if they thought it was in the "best interest of the child". I guess somebody died and made them God. Many of the things they did are illegal now with pretty stiff legal consequences. As in jail time consequences. Sometimes progress is good, and yes, things have improved astronimically, but some of the absolutely heartbreaking stories from people I know, mine is a cake walk in comparison. I was a week shy of 8 months old when I was released into my adoptive parents custody, and my adoption was finalized when I was two. The nuns told my distraught teenaged biological mother that I was sent home with a loving family three days after I was born (lol). The real story of why I was holed up in an institutionalized foster home was because the law at the time was that the birthmother had 6 months from the day of birth to change her mind (and of course they didn't tell her that, why would they?). She was so distraught, in fact, that that's why they held me back because what a pickle that would've been, huh? Instead, they held their breath hoping she wouldn't find out that she could in fact retrieve me (which wasn't happening, anyway), and lied to her when she kept hysterically and repeatedly asking if I had been taken home when she was being released from the hospital. In fact, they told her that a family was all lined up for me (another lie) when she was in some awful home for unwed mothers, completely isolated like a leper and cut off from her friends and family because of the shame of it. I was born on Feb. 17th. My relinquishment papers were signed on Aug. 17th, six months to the day. Surprise! Tip of the iceberg as to a pack of lies of all kinds. And like I said, the birthfather had zero rights - and I do mean zero rights. Less than zero, in fact. Again, if anyone needs help, I am a PM away. What was this about again? Keeping Woody the rube away from the Jets forever. Right. Hey, I have an idea. Throw Woody in the Tower of London and disappear him like Edward V and the Duke of York.
The Jets were not one of the teams that had a player protesting, but showed unity before games by locking arms and standing. I know at least once Chris was with them, if not all season. I'm sure this was all part of the Jets working with the players to avoid a mess of a situation like other teams had.
