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Apologies for yet another departure from the subject of football, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who donated to my Fight Gone Bad effort to support wounded veterans and prostate cancer research. In the last 24 hours, KSK readers donated over $2000 to FGB IV, bringing my tally to over $4000 and guaranteeing you, the reader, four humiliating pictures of me looking ill while throwing a medicine ball or struggling to get 75 pounds overhead for the fortieth time.

Anyway, our most generous donations yesterday came from readers Ace Bandito of James W. Brown Animations and Mark Curtis. Mark deferred on the prize, so Ace is the proud owner of a pair of Oakley Gascans. And if you don’t think they’re cool, check out how awesome that dog looks. Congratulations to Ace, and thank you again to everyone who donated.

One final thing. The person who made the third-highest donation wrote something that impressed me even more than his generous gift, and I wanted to share it with you because he’s KSK’s de facto Nice Human being of the Week:

If my donation is in fact big enough to win the Oakleys, I ask that you keep my name anonymous on the site.  Being lauded for my “charitable magnanimity and general physical attractiveness” sounds pretty damn good  but this donation isn’t about me so I would appreciate you keeping me anonymous (and I’m not trying to sound presumptuous because here’s to hoping that someone else donates more than I do).  All that I ask is that you give a shout out to The Vikes and ND Football in some way if possible.  Not too much to ask, though I’m sure you’ll get some shit for anything regarding ND.  Thanks, and good luck at FGB.

No, it certainly isn’t too much to ask. See below.

You know, I very occasionally go to business meetings or blog-centric parties where people are always lauding blogs for their voices and praising the few of us professional bloggers while using words like “tastemakers” and “trailblazers,” and it always feels completely false, because I always keep blogs’ influence in perspective. The percentage of the American population that knows this site is preposterously small. Most of the people I’ve met in my life have no idea what I do or how I’m able to make a living off of it. Day-to-day life out in the real world makes the importance of a blog feel pretty small.

But then we ask you to help out for a cause, and you give us $4000 in the heart of a recession. It is absolutely humbling, and on behalf of Athletes for a Cure and the Wounded Warrior Project, I thank you for your support. I look forward to puking for you.

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