Scott Fujita will leave a legacy behind in New Orleans, even if he leaves via free agency.
The Super Bowl starter has decided to donate half of his $82,000 playoff earnings to charity, including roughly $20,000 for coastal restoration in Louisiana.
“This place have given us so much, we feel a responsibility to give
something back, ” Fujita said.
Fujita will also donate to Haiti relief, but the coastal restoration issue is one of paramount importance to the sustainability of New Orleans. Yet Bob Marshall of the New Orleans Times-Picayune notes the threat of wetlands loss doesn’t even get much political attention in the city.
Fujita, for one, is doing his part to change that.
I really admire how many of the NO players give back to the NO community. It’s a shame that things like this take a back seat to all the negative headlines some professional athletes make.
“back seat to all the negative headlines ”
Totally agree. Instead of a “Days Without An Arrest” counter, they should have a “$ Donated by Players” counter but not going to happen I’m sure.
Coastal restoration efforts are a waste of money. Mother Nature giveth and Mother Nature taketh away as she sees fit and ultimately there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Because of that there will always be plenty of wetlands in southern Louisiana. Smartest thing that could be done there is for everybody to move out of the reclaimed swampland that Mother Nature took back with Katrina (with interest) because it will just happen again and again.
I mean it’s a great gesture but he maybe should have donated it to education if he really wanted to make a lasting difference.
its nice to see an athlete donating to a cause on our own soil. so many of these guys are giving there money to haiti or other overseas issues when we have so many problems of our own to take care of.
its nice to see an athlete donating to a cause on our own soil. so many of these guys are giving there money to haiti or other overseas issues when we have so many problems of our own to take care of.
Just a sign he’ll be living close to it!
“Coastal restoration efforts are a waste of money. Mother Nature giveth and Mother Nature taketh away as she sees fit and ultimately there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.”
A large part of the problem with Louisiana’s coast washing away, is because of the efforts to control the Mississippi River. The natural flood plain of the river is pretty much gone.
Quality player, quality man. AND a Cal grad
/Colts fan
Still wish he stayed with the fins!
Class act.
The world could use more of these guys.
He figued out the NO culture..
Gimme Gimme Gimme
@.VoxVeritas
That’s like saying people shouldn’t restore their houses after it gets trashed after a mudslide, or that they shouldn’t rebuild after their property gets destroyed by a wildfire. People just cant leave where they have been embedded in their community for a long time just because “Mother Nature giveth and Mother Nature taketh away”, Nature happens everywhere.
Good man, Scott Fujita
@Vox
You’re a retard….plain and simple!! My guess based on your retarded explanation is that no one should donate to help people in the midwest when they get decimated year in and out by tornadoes or they shouldn’t help the folks in California when year in and out they get decimated by wild fires…I could go on and on but you must live with your mom and play video games all day and talk trash on the net and basically don’t have a clue on life!!
Who Dat! Two Dat!
BELOW EFFIN SEA LEVEL!!!
WHO DAT Moron
@ mike d,
I could not agree with you more. I’m so sick of seeing our government and our people worry more about foreign countries and third world countries more than our own. We have so many problems here at home that we really need to get back to fixing our own country before we worry about countries that don’t affect us. We are trying to fix the world while our country goes to sh**. You see Michelle Obama on every other commercial talking about Haiti. Hey Michelle why don’t you and your husband worry about the poverty, unemployment, and crumbling infrastructure of our own damn country. You weren’t elected to govern Haiti.
And who came to our aid when Katrina hit??????
Nobody. You didn’t see Haitians scrambling over here on tires to come help us.
“You didn’t see Haitians scrambling over here on tires to come help us.”
Really dude? Yeah 3rd world countries should donate time, effort and supplies to one of the greatest countriest on earth. That makes alot of sense.
Hey Retards,
This is a feel good thread about a quality individual. Go bitch in another thread. And you know who you are.
@BigEasy:
You’re absolutely right!
It’s obvious Vox doesn’t like seeing Louisiana, let alone New Orleans, being in the spotlight for something positive when someone in trying to help the region because of the Saints winning the SB and not his team. It shows what type of person he is, clearly someone who isn’t mature and leeches off of his parents.
According to his logic, everyone who lives in California (wildfires and earthquakes), Oklahoma & Kansas (tornadoes), Florida (hurricanes), and the Northeast region (snowstorms) should also move from their homes because of mother nature. Mother nature has an effect on everywhere no matter where you go, you’re going to have bad weather.
But I’m sure the next thing he’s going to say is how Katrina is much worse than tornadoes and wildfires only because of the fact that it happened in New Orleans and he doesn’t like how everyone in the city is happy and joyous because of the Saints despite the trials and tribulations that we went through and were able to overcome and recover.
GET A LIFE DOUCHE!