AJ Brown, Tee Higgins among NFL stars reminiscing on Christmas memories as they impact their communities

Core memories are made each twelvemonth during the vacation season, particularly for children anxiously awaiting to spot what mightiness beryllium nether the histrion connected Christmas Day. 

For players successful the NFL, they're inactive successful enactment mode adjacent during the holidays. But that doesn't mean they aren't reminiscing astir their favourite Christmas memories arsenic they bent astir family. 

Raising Cane’s had NFL stars helping interaction children crossed the federation during their sixth yearly vacation motorcycle giveaway, wherever they gave retired implicit 4,000 branded bikes and helmets to charitable younker organizations.

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Tee Higgins flexes with a Boys & Girls Club kid during Raising Cane's event.  (Raising Cane's)

As they saw the joyousness of getting a caller bike, players similar Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown couldn’t assistance reasoning astir 1 of his "peak" puerility memories astatine Christmas erstwhile helium received a large gift.

"Thinking back, getting my PlayStation 2 from my parents was everything for maine astatine the time," Brown told Fox News Digital. "I got NCAA, 1 of those games with the Texas Longhorns connected the cover. It was precise impactful to maine and it stuck to me. It was 1 of those highest moments arsenic a kid that stuck retired to me."

In Cincinnati, Bengals receiver Tee Higgins was each smiles erstwhile helium showed up astatine the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati to spot each the children helium was helping interaction with their caller wheels. Growing up successful Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Higgins went done the Boys & Girls Club, which is wherefore events similar these are truthful peculiar to him personally. 

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And erstwhile it comes to Christmas memories, helium ever thinks astir that 1 acquisition his begetter got him that was a small much almighty than conscionable a motorcycle – literally. 

"My favourite acquisition was my archetypal ungraded motorcycle that my dada had got me. I rode that ungraded motorcycle for similar 10 days straight," Higgins told Fox News Digital.

But Higgins besides remembers the archetypal acceptable of wheels helium got, which was done the Boys & Girls Club. 

Josh Metellus and Andrew Van Ginkel of the Minnesota Vikings airs with a kid astatine Raising Cane's motorcycle giveaway. (Raising Cane's)

"When I was their age, I retrieve my archetypal motorcycle astatine the Boys and Girls Club. That made maine smile, truthful it made maine the happiest lad alive," helium added. 

And sometimes, it's a acquisition arsenic elemental arsenic a hoops that tin marque a large impact. Growing up successful North Miami, Minnesota Vikings linebacker Josh Metellus told his parent however severely helium wanted a caller hoops to enactment connected his crippled extracurricular the location successful hopes of making the mediate schoolhouse team. 

"It’s funny, I recovered a representation of it not excessively agelong agone due to the fact that Netflix was asking for it," Metellus told Fox News Digital. "I got a hoops erstwhile I was a small spot older, possibly mediate school, close earlier precocious school. The information that my ma was consenting — I kept telling her, ‘I privation a caller basketball.’ For her to spell retired of her mode to usage that arsenic my gift, knowing that would marque maine blessed alternatively of conscionable giving maine a artifact oregon thing immoderate mediate schoolhouse kid wanted. All I wanted was a hoops truthful I tin play and effort to marque this mediate schoolhouse hoops team. My mom, similar galore times, showed maine she cared what I thought astir and was consenting to bash immoderate to marque maine happy. That was a truly chill moment.

"I saw the representation with the hoops and I retrieve however blessed I was and however overmuch that stuck with me. I’ve gotten a telephone for Christmas 1 clip and that was truly cool, but the hoops stuck with maine due to the fact that I was going extracurricular and I got to play immediately."

While receiving gifts, particularly those impactful ones, are large this clip of year, it's the tone of giving backmost and helping those successful request that genuinely matters. 

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"I deliberation life’s a batch bigger than shot and america arsenic shot players," Metellus' teammate Andrew Van Ginkel told Fox News Digital. "So, immoderate mode that we tin get backmost successful the assemblage and conscionable beryllium determination for kids that person been done a batch and request that other portion of anticipation that tin assistance them get done these hard times.

"To me, Christmas is each astir giving acknowledgment to our lord Jesus Christ and it means a batch to springiness backmost and bash bully works successful the community. It’s a tiny portion astir who I americium and privation to bash arsenic a idiosyncratic and the interaction I privation to make."

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