Making an impact<\/p>\n
When the Bills returned for the start of the offseason workouts in mid-April, one of Sean McDermott’s initiatives was for the team to find new ways to reach the Western New York community.<\/p>\n
Because of the influx of new arrivals \u2014 many of whom had never been to Buffalo before \u2014 the Bills HC saw it as an important part of this year’s journey to get the entire team (including coaches) to come together for a day of community impact.<\/p>\n
During one of their OTA days, the Bills split up into groups and went to surprise 12 local schools with activities ranging from garden planting, gymnasium games, Q&A sessions and more.<\/p>\n
McDermott said the day was about “giving our players an opportunity to get out in the community in local schools to take their helmets off and let these students see them and make that connection.”<\/p>\n
“We gonna lift this community, we gonna be here for the community,” Dawkins said that day.<\/p>\n
Buffalo also supported local high school girls flag football teams Bishop Kearney and Clarence during their playoffs earlier this summer. Bishop Kearney won the first-ever Division 2 New York State Championship and Clarence won the regional championship for Division 1.<\/p>\n
The Bills personally invited both schools out to attend a Minicamp practice and then surprised them with a state champs jersey.<\/p>\n
“Seeing a close practice and seeing all the facilities, it was just amazing,” said Greta Brezenski, Bishop Kearney’s QB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making an impact When the Bills returned for the start of the offseason workouts in mid-April, one of…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3687,959,310,10074],"class_list":["post-19710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-features","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-golf","tag-training-camp","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@fogolf\/117502401843472591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}