Colts owner Jim Irsay gives joint-highest donation to Damar Hamlin’s GoFundMe page donating $25,003
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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay makes the highest combined donation of $25,003 to Damar Hamlin’s GoFundMe page as the Bills player’s Toy Drive approaches $7.8 million after his cardiac arrest.
- Jim Irsay has donated over $25k to Damar Hamlin’s GoFundMe page
- He joins others from the NFL such as Robert Kraft and Matthew Stafford as donors.
- Hamlin has shown ‘substantial improvement’ in his health, doctors say
- He has been hospitalized since going into cardiac arrest Monday against the Bengals.
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Colts owner Jim Irsay is the largest joint donor to Damar Hamlin’s GoFundMe page after donating $25,003 Thursday.
Irsay is joined at the top by ‘Sheets Laundry Club,’ while Patriots owner Robert Kraft is the fourth-highest donor at $18,003.
Hamlin’s GoFundMe has now received more than $7.7 million in donations, far more than the $2,500 he set out to raise in 2020.
Jim Irsay donated $25,003, making him the largest joint GoFundMe donor to date.
Irsay and Kraft were among many others who ended their donations with the number three, after Hamlin’s jersey number for the Bills.
The couple are far from the only big names in the NFL community to donate to GoFundMe, which was initially set up in 2020 to support a toy drive sponsored by Hamlin’s Chasing M’s Foundation.
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford donated $12,000, while their coach Sean McVay and Tom Brady donated $10,000 respectively.
Russell and Ciara Wilson also donated $10,000, and the Browns and Texans each donated $10,003.
There have now been 232,500 donations to raise millions for Damar Hamlin’s Toy Drive.
The generosity has even extended to other sports, with Lakers President Jeanie Buss donating $2,503.
Several positive updates on Hamlin’s health were issued Thursday, as doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said he has made “substantial improvement” after going into cardiac arrest during Monday’s game against the Bengals.
βHe is starting to wake up and it appears that his condition and neurological function are intact,β Dr. Timothy Pritts of the UC School of Medicine said in a video news conference.
Hamlin also began contacting doctors in writing on Wednesday, while the Bills said in a statement that he had shown “remarkable improvement” in the past 24 hours.
The page was initially created in 2020 to support a toy drive Hamlin was doing for children.
However, safety remains in a breathing tube and it is unclear when it will be removed.
In an update to the page, Hamlin’s team said they were “simply amazed” by the donations that had come in.
“This fundraiser has become an overnight reminder of the incredible nature of humanity,” they said.
Your actions directly reflect the type of human Damar is.
‘We are hopeful of Damar’s future involvement in disbursing the incredibly generous contributions. We thank you again for his support and look forward to updating you along the way.’