Buffalo Rumblings
Buffalo Bills fans have made a name for themselves with countless donations to worthy causes. Do something great for the community like Josh Allen? Donate in your name to celebrate you. Trash-talk us on your radio show? Donate in your name to humble you. Injured rival? Donate in your name out of respect.
What if you could donate something more valuable than money? Well you, can! And if you read the headline this entire paragraph wasn’t necessary, but here we are.
The Bills and blood donations go back a long way. The Bills currently (and mostly silently) partner with ConnectLife to encourage local fans to give the gift of life. If you couldn’t tell, I’m trying to appeal to your desire to do good things on this planet and blood donations do a lot of good.
Lifesaving transfusions after accidents, during surgery, and more. Per their website, blood collected from ConnectLife accounts for over 75% of the local blood supply. Their site that I keep linking over and over has information about the blood donation process, uses and a whole lot more.
If appealing to your natural good instincts, which I’m sure you have because you’re an awesome person who can spare a little blood, didn’t work, then let’s circle back to that Bills partnership I hinted at. For Bills Mafia, there’s even more reason to donate blood with ConnectLife. At least THREE reasons in fact.
I’m sure ConnectLife won’t mind that I borrowed this image from the email they sent me to promote this campaign. Any donor giving blood in September and October will get the pictured Bills/ConnectLife branded phone wallet, which is pretty cool. As the graphic also notes, you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a pair of tickets to a Bills home game.
Still not enough reason? Here’s one more big reason to donate blood sooner rather than later. If you donate enough blood between now and the end of the year, you’re entered into another raffle for a suite for 16 people in the final regular-season home game at the current Highmark Stadium.
To be eligible for this, you’ll need to donate whole blood twice, one double red cell donation, or four plasma donations. Does that sound tough? It’s not. If you’re eligible to do a double red donation, one trip to a ConnectLife collection center and you’re in the raffle!
For whole blood and plasma donors, you still have time. Whole blood donations can be given every 56 days. That means if you donate at any time before November 5, you’ll be able to get a second donation in. For plasma, you can donate every 14 days. If my math is right, you have enough time to get in EIGHT plasma donations in that time span. Yes, I’m so excited about getting you to give blood that I’m doing math to help you out.
And I’m not just the Buffalo Rumblings Blood Donation Fan...
