A Survivor at Every Stadium: Minnesota Vikings

Minneapolis, MN. Lung cancer survivor Linda Wortman, and her husband Jerry , will represent Team Draft at the Minnesota Vikings vs. Washington Redskins prime time Thursday Night Football game. Linda Wortman has been on mission to the change for the face of the lung cancer. After hitting 5 years of survival, LInda committed to running a 5K in every state in the US to bring awareness to the disease. To date she has run a 5K race in over 40 states.

Team Draft’s goals are to create a unique experience for participating survivors and to raise awareness on a local, national, and international level by using each game and each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. In 2012, Team Draft marked the occasion by launching our inaugural Survivor at Every Stadium initiative on CNN during a nationally-televised prime time special focusing on lung cancer and our National Campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer.

Leveraging our connections with the NFL, its teams and players and our relationships with many of the top cancer centers in the country, we arranged to have lung cancer survivors attend games at NFL stadiums across the country during the last two months of the 2012-2013 season. By the time the initiative concluded at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, more than 30 lung cancer survivors representing 30 cancer centers and nearly every NFL team had participated. Given the overwhelming success of our Survivor at EveryStadium initiative, we have expanded it beyond the NFL to the NBA, the NHL and MLS—and this year, London, UK! As part of our National Campaign, this celebration of survivorship raises lung cancer awareness, gives hope to those battling the disease, and shines a light on the important work being done at cancer research and treatment centers around the country.

Special thanks to the Minnesota Vikings, Mayo Clinic, and Vikings coach George Stewart for joining forces with Team Draft to make this experience possible.

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