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Bears RB Matt Forte gives laptops to entire inner-city Chicago football tea
Bears RB Matt Forte gives laptops to entire inner-city Chicago football team
By Cameron Smith | Prep Rally – 11 hours ago
This is the season for giving. Yet, for NFL star Matt Forte, the giving started earlier this season and culminated with incredibly gracious gifts for a high school football team from an underprivileged section of Chicago.
As first reported by Fox Sports Chicago, and followed upon by MaxPreps, Forte's mentorship of the Chicago (Ill.) Tilden Career School football team carried throughout the 2012 season, beginning with the star running back spending a full day with the Tilden players, following them through classes and eventually attending their practice to work with the players.
Yet, while Forte's initial foray into mentoring the 16-member Tilden squad was a sponsored act of charity -- he appeared on behalf of Duracell's "Trust Your Power" program -- the running back didn't stop there. Instead, he maintained communication with the coaching staff at Tilden and eventually hosted the team for a lunch in downtown Chicago and surprised the entire team by giving them each their own laptops.
"Being from a privileged high school, we had computers and were able to use them," Forte told Fox. "It's only right that, if these kids don't have that type of medium to use and stuff, that I give it back so they can use it.
"It will be good to see their faces again and let them know I'm not going to just come around one time and leave."
Forte's generous act of charity hasn't gone overlooked, but it still deserves praise in a time when professional athletes are routinely lampooned for poor decision-making but often overlooked when they do contribute to society.
The players at Tilden may never reach the success Forte has had on the field, but they won't forget what he did for them anytime soon, either.
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they can always pawn the laptops for the top of the line strap.
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It is great to see a Matt was willing to give what he has to these player, wish more players all over the NFL would do the same. HS kids play the game because they love the game and not for the millions they hope to get from the sport, if they make it to college. For a most of these kids college is the only thing they hope to get out of playing HS sports. The computers will help them a great deal to hopefully move on to college.
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There not having to use vigina yet so they should be fine. Oh and to clear one thing up Cups are far more important to these kids the jockstraps.
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soulman 
Great! They need jockstraps and he gives them computers. How are they gonna cover their nuts with those?
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Originally Posted by
soulman Great! They need jockstraps and he gives them computers. How are they gonna cover their nuts with those?
You thinking they are going to go up against the STP? (Suh Testicle Poke)
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Love me some Matt Forte....
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Classy move by Matt Forte.
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Originally Posted by
JJ-30 There not having to use vigina yet so they should be fine. Oh and to clear one thing up Cups are far more important to these kids the jockstraps.
Don't they throw those in with the straps if you're a football player. The ones with the little snap pouch in front like I always wore when I was catching?
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap. 
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
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The ones we use at the HS I coach at the jockstraps have the pouch like your talking about but the cups come separate defferent sizes for different sizes.
Originally Posted by
soulman Don't they throw those in with the straps if you're a football player. The ones with the little snap pouch in front like I always wore when I was catching?
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