The NFL isn’t coming to Philadelphia in two weeks just to make young men rich and snarl traffic around the Ben Franklin Parkway.
The league said it wants to help, too.
Along with fanfare on the parkway and high-stakes draft picks, the NFL said it will be coordinating hospital visits, flag football clinics and funding, partnerships with the Special Olympics and hosting special honorees, including the family of an Army lieutenant from Logan who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011.
The league, according to a news release, will cut the ribbon on draft week April 25 with Mayor Jim Kenney, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski and Anna Isaacson, the league’s senior VP of social responsibility at Starr Garden Playground, at 6th and Lombard streets.