One day I was food shopping at the Stop and Shop in Foxborough and a pretty white haired woman in her late 60s smiled at me as we were in the checkout line. So we started talking. She told me that she had been battling through cancer treatments and that one of her coping mechanisms was to sew blankets for fellow cancer patients. She said that she received very warm and loving support from one of the Patriots -- whom she was now missing because he had been traded. Just as I was asking her who the player was -- she said Chandler Jones.
She raved about how Chandler Jones helped her promote her cause and how he used to call her from time to time to see how she was doing. She was lamenting the fact that he was no longer in Foxborough because she had knitted a special blanket for Tom Brady's mother and didn't know how to send it to her. She was so sweet. I told her that if she brought the blanket with a note for Robert Kraft to Gillette Stadium -- that the security guards would pass it along to him and that he would likely pass it along to TB. Not sure if this happened, but I must say the way this venerable and kind woman spoke about Chandler Jones was very heart-warming.
