XOXO Stabler Foundation
Creating a Safer GameThe XOXO Stabler Foundation is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded by former NFL quarterback Ken Stabler. In 2015, the nonprofit took up a cause that directly affected the foundation’s chairman: sports-related brain trauma.
The foundation’s new initiative XOXO Game Plan for Change is focused on changing the course and culture of contact sports to increase sports safety and reduce brain trauma in athletes. To facilitate change, the XOXO Stabler Foundation funds research on related brain diseases, methods of treatment and prevention, and educational outreach.
Upcoming Events :
Ken Stabler First Annual Gridiron Challenge -Saturday, Aug. 25
Coming up on Saturday, Aug. 25, the inaugural Ken Stabler Annual Gridiron Challenge is being played at Foley High School’s home field, Ivan Jones Stadium, in association with the foundation’s new XOXO Game Plan for Change initiative. With this initiative, the foundation is “focused on changing the course and culture of contact sports to increase sports safety and reduce brain trauma in athletes,” according to their website. “To facilitate change, the XOXO Stabler Foundation funds research on related brain diseases, methods of treatment and prevention, and educational outreach.”
The organization is also working to televise the Aug. 25 game, as they state that Raycom Sports, ESPN, and Fox Sports televise high school games from across the country during that time. Though this hasn’t been confirmed, the organization is looking into making it happen.
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SUPER BOWEL 1 – August 24-25, 2018
On August 24-25, 2018 former NFL players Dennis Brown, Dwight Hicks, Cliff Branch, Tim McKyer, Mervyn Fernandez, Robert Jenkins, Bubba Paris, in addition to TV personalities Mike Shumann and Kevin Seiter and community members Steve Wagstaffe (District Attorney), Lawrence Cappel (Peninsula Health Care District), Kathleen Baty (The Safety Chick) and many more will divide into 2 teams in a battle to score a victory over colon cancer. The teams are:
San Francisco 49ers Team Freddie Solomon
vs.
Oakland Raiders Team Ken “Snake” Stabler
Both Freddie and Ken died of colon cancer in recent years.
The aim of Super Bowel 1 is to help remove the stigma that surrounds colon cancer and to promote screening with any of the currently “guideline recommended” screening tests. Each team member will choose which test they want to have and the team that has the most polyps removed will be the winner of Super Bowel 1. In case of a tie the winner will be decided by a coin toss.
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“He wanted to make a difference in the lives of others in both life and death. At his request, his brain and spinal cord were donated to Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center to support research for degenerative brain disease in athletes.” – Family Statement on Ken Stabler’s passing, July 9, 2015