Here’s a great gesture: the New Orleans Saints won their appeal for steep financial penalties after the NFL alleged that defensive end Cameron Jordan faked an injury in their late-season game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year. Among the fines was a $100,000 hit for head coach Dennis Allen — whose wife Allison gave him the idea to donate that money to charity anyway.
Allen shared their story with NewOrleansSaints.com’s John DeShazier: “It all started when we got the fine letters from the league. We said, ‘We shouldn’t be fined for this, we didn’t do anything wrong.’ And then, it got Alisson and I to thinking, ‘Well, we win this appeal, let’s take that money that we would have given the league and let’s do something good with that money.'”
Second Harvest Food Bank is active in 23 parishes across South Louisiana, estimating that they serve 32 million meals each year to more than 210,000 people. The Allens’ donation is going to do a lot to support their efforts.
