Cover Story: Former Bills tight end gathers sports luminaries on golf course to raise funds for his foundation’s work with spinal cord research
Everett throws a tee party
by David Briggs -- News Sports Reporter
Jerome Bettis lofted his putter and pointed a few feet right of a hole some 20 feet away on the sloping practice green at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg.
“I should be aiming way over there,” he told his friend.
Then, as the retired Pittsburgh Steelers running back struck the ball, Kevin Everett tilted his head and tried to will his buddy’s ball home.
“I see it, I see it, I see it,” Everett said, laughing.
Everett, the former Bills tight end who suffered a spinal cord injury last September that initially left him paralyzed, was unable to play in the inaugural Kevin Everett Golf Classic on Monday.
But those lessons from Bettis, former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly and the other sports stars golfing in the fundraiser for spinal cord research were not lost on him.
“Later on down the line, hopefully one year I’ll be able to be out there,” Everett said.
Everett throws a tee party
by David Briggs -- News Sports Reporter
Jerome Bettis lofted his putter and pointed a few feet right of a hole some 20 feet away on the sloping practice green at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg.
“I should be aiming way over there,” he told his friend.
Then, as the retired Pittsburgh Steelers running back struck the ball, Kevin Everett tilted his head and tried to will his buddy’s ball home.
“I see it, I see it, I see it,” Everett said, laughing.
Everett, the former Bills tight end who suffered a spinal cord injury last September that initially left him paralyzed, was unable to play in the inaugural Kevin Everett Golf Classic on Monday.
But those lessons from Bettis, former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly and the other sports stars golfing in the fundraiser for spinal cord research were not lost on him.
“Later on down the line, hopefully one year I’ll be able to be out there,” Everett said.
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