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HOW JOSHUA PERRY IS USING HIS OHIO STATE PLATFORM IN THE MOST SIMPLE, MEANINGFUL WAY
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!’"
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