• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

LB Joshua Perry (National Champion, BTN CFB Analyst)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-ohio-state-platform-change-life?source=email
HOW JOSHUA PERRY IS USING HIS OHIO STATE PLATFORM IN THE MOST SIMPLE, MEANINGFUL WAY

36191_h.jpg


Joshua Perry took out his iPhone and sent a handful of his closest teammates a group text. He asked them to drop everything for a little kid they’ve never met.

“I just need 30 seconds,” the Ohio State junior linebacker said. “Whatever you’re doing; make me a video clip.”

That’s it. That’s all. Thirty seconds for a leukemia-stricken boy 1,000 miles away. Thirty seconds for a family yearning to make another sobering trip to the hospital a little less sterile.

Thirty seconds to help a stomach ache pang less. Thirty seconds to throw together a grainy cell phone video.

Thirty seconds to briefly make something as wicked as cancer a little less devastating.

“He just wants to hear from some Buckeyes and it’ll make his day,” Perry said. “We got a lot of good guys and they dropped what they were doing immediately in order to make a message.”

Thirty seconds for the smallest and simplest of tokens.

But it’s hard to measure how much it meant.

Fourteen hours away in an emergency room in Orlando, a flood of videos started pouring into Jeremy Chambers’ phone.

One by one, he sent them to his 4-year-old son Joshua — a beaming, vibrant and sick little boy — who, thanks to his father’s Perrysburg, Ohio, roots, has fallen in love with Ohio State.

“I would forward them from my phone to Joshua’s iPad and he’d get a message and it would pop and he’d say 'It’s another Buckeye!’” Chambers said.

“The way we did it by sending them over to his iPad one at a time he was like ‘Oh another one and another one!’"

Contd......
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
Just realized this never made it's way here:

http://www.thisweeknews.com/content...isabled-athletes-embrace-chance-to-learn.html

SPECIAL SKILLS FOOTBALL INVITATIONAL
Disabled athletes embrace chance to learn
By FRANK DiRENNA Wednesday July 16, 2014 8:59 AM

...

For Buckeyes linebacker Joshua Perry, the clinic was special since his family has been affected by developmental disabilities. Perry's brother, Jahred, is a former participant in Special Olympics through the Delaware County chapter.

"I have a lot of experience doing events like this, so anytime we can get a group of guys to come out it's a good thing to do," Perry said. "My little brother used to participate in Special Olympics up in Delaware County, so this is near and dear to me. I just love being out here and getting to pay forward a little bit.

"They just love being out here. They love the competition and it's great because they're big Ohio State fans, so they love meeting Buckeyes."

...
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top