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Former Patriots player is there for cancer patients

With the holidays past us for another 11 months, some people have neatly packed away their charitable spirits with the lights and ornaments.

Not so Joe and Jen Andruzzi, the former New England Patriots guard and his wife. The couple — he a giant of a man at 6 foot 3 inches and around 300 pounds at his playing weight , she tall and elegant — say they will be giving gifts year-round, as they have for more than four years through the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, the nonprofit they founded in 2008 to help families of cancer patients pay their day-to-day bills.

Comments

Joe Andruzzi is a very special guy. Hats off to him!

Bravo to Joe for GIVING BACK & MAKING A DIFFERENCE! A special guy who really cares and example to us all....

Absolutely wonderful article.   The world needs more people like Joe and Jen Andruzzi, and I am speechless reading about their story, and their generosity not only with finances, but with their time and caring.   What's not to love?

Andruzzi = good people