Eleven well known ex football players, media people involved in sport had been asked to take part in a fund raising bit of fun. Each of them were tasked to raise $10,000 for MND (Motor Neuron disease.
It is an awful debilitating disease and at the moment there is no cure. A former great footballer had MND and he has vowed to spend the rest of his life fighting for money to go into research to either halt or hinder this disease. Warren's brother died from it about eighteen years ago and at the time there was not even a real test for it, they had to test for many other things and when that wasn't the problem the doctors decided that he had MND. From then life expectancy was about four years.
Neil Danaher on the left is the guy who has MND, he will over time lose movement in his limbs and then his vital organs. Luke Darcy on the right was also an ex player now in the media, they are pushing Dermont Breton another ex player and calls some matches. Each eleven people were pushed into an ice pool.
People dug deep into their pockets to give donations, beanies were also sold the same as Neil is wearing. They were hoping for about $50,000 and ended up with 2.16million dollars for the day.
There was a web site that viewers could donate and yes we did make a donation.
The Football grounds supplied the pool and ice etc so there was no cost at all and all 2.16m was going to research.
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