It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for Raiders fans, with trades and free-agent signings galore, featuring the unpredictable, amazing acquisition of wide receiver Davante Adams.
So there’s been a lot of Raiders fan-to-player love within the world of social media. Raiders WR Bryan Edwards took to Twitter on Friday to test his own standing with Raider Nation by doing something I’ve never seen before — asking his fans if they’d help him pay for a jersey-number change.
First of all, a bit of backstory. Here’s Edwards’ tweet from a short time ago, declaring he wants to switch from No. 89 to No. 3.
Seems simple enough. But when Edwards got the ball rolling with the NFL, he realized it takes more than a whim to change jersey numbers as a professional athlete. It takes cold hard cash.
That’s when he turned to his fans. What’s $43,000 amongst friends, right?
That’s kinda wild. It’s my impression that the majority of GoFundMe accounts are for people with very real…