Free Press sports writers Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez break down the season with their annual holiday gifting for the Detroit Lions. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press
Long before he was the Detroit Lions’ nominee for the NFL’s prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year award, Matthew Stafford was an impressionable kid who spent every Thanksgiving delivering Meals on Wheels with his family.
That experience as a youth taught Stafford the importance of giving back, and it’s something that he and wife, Kelly, do now by adopting families every Christmas.