NFC Championship Game - A Survivor at Every Stadium: Carolina Panthers

January 24, 2016


NFC Championship Game - A Survivor at Every Stadium: Carolina Panthers
NFC Championship Game - A Survivor at Every Stadium: Carolina Panthers
NFC Championship Game - A Survivor at Every Stadium: Carolina Panthers

Charlotte, NC. PANTHERS WIN! Lung cancer survivor-advocates Deniece (Edwina) Edgeworth and Neil Caesar represented Team Draft at the NFC Championship game. The survivors watched the Carolina Panthers dominate the  Arizona Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium to advance to Super Bowl 50. #KeepPounding #Tacklinglungcancer #ASurvivoratEveryStadium #SuperBowl50

What an amazing gift from the Draft Family Foundation!  I was invited by Chris Draft to represent Team Draft at the NFC Championship game on Sunday in Charlotte! I'm a 17 year lung cancer survivor, part of the Lung Cancer Survivors Group and Dan Powell Warriors fundraising in Greenville SC, and am so  thankful for the great work Team Draft does to raise awareness and financial support for the fight to vanquish lung cancer. I look forward to hanging with Chris, meeting other survivors, and watching my Panthers secure their ticket to Superbowl 50! Thank you Chris, and Go Team Draft! ~ Neil Ceasar

Both Deniece and Neil are supporters of Team Draft's Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. Deniece set up and individual fundrasing page and Neil is supporting Dan Powell's Warriors.

All of the participants will be able to continue raising funds until the Super Bowl, February 7, 2016.

The Teams that raise over $1,000 can designate a beneficiary for 50% of their funds raised.

Deniece is raising for the Levine Cancer Institute and Dan Powell's Warriors support the Upstate Lung Cancer Support Group at St. Francis Cancer Center in Greenville, SC.

Team Draft was founded by NFL veteran Linebacker Chris Draft and his late wife Keasha, an engineer and Clemson graduate who died of lung cancer at the age of 38.

“Super Bowl and Pro Bowl week are a fitting time to spotlight the crusade to change the face of lung cancer. The level of commitment, drive and passion required to make it this far parallels the efforts required to get lung cancer research to the next level,” said Chris Draft who co-founded Team Draft with his late wife Keasha to change the face of lung cancer.

Keasha and Chris Draft had attended the Super Bowl the year of her diagnosis, fulfilling one of her lifelong dreams. The memory of that Super Bowl trip served as part of the inspiration for The Super Bowl Challenge. “It takes a team to tackle lung cancer, and the Super Bowl Challenge has expanded this amazing team. Keasha’s legacy of hope lives on through the Super Bowl Challenge team and we are grateful to all who have contributed and continue to contribute to lung cancer awareness, research, treatment and patient advocacy efforts, and “said Draft.  “We are excited to have the opportunity to take this year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners and their stories to the Super Bowl the Pro-Bowl and the Taste of the NFL.”