Positivity: Football hero leaps to aiding cancer survivors
Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET May 11, 2007
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Kym Lindau is a breast cancer survivor who finds comfort in simple pleasures. Leroy Butler is a Super Bowl champion best known for the Lambeau Leap.
So what would bring these two together?
“I love waking up every morning and saying I can make a difference,” Butler says. He’s making that difference off the field with the Leroy Butler Foundation for Breast Cancer.
During his 12 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Leroy Butler delighted and inspired hundreds of thousands of fans — for home games, nearly 73,000 would fill the seats at Lambeau Field. But it was one female fan, wearing not the Packers green and gold, but pink, who ultimately inspired Butler.“I saw this young lady with a pink ribbon on her jersey and I said ‘what’s that ribbon about?’ and she said, ‘Well, it’s about breast cancer,’” Butler says.
It was something Butler knew little about, but it soon became his call to action.
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