All Eyes on Oregon for a Big Drive and a Huge Game
Where can you catch a big push for “The We Give Blood Drive” and one of the biggest college football games of the season this week?
It’s all going down in Eugene, Ore.
On Wednesday, Oct. 9, Abbott will host a blood drive from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Gerlinger Annex on the University of Oregon campus (students: sign up at bloodworksNW.org/UO).
Then, on Saturday, Oregon hosts Ohio State for a titanic football clash between two of the top-ranked teams in the nation.
Ducks vs. Bucks — “O” my! If this week doesn’t get your blood pumping, we don’t know what will. As always, go to bigten.org/abbott to get in the game.
What is ‘The We Give Blood Drive’? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
Big Red is absolutely rolling: Nebraska has zoomed up to the top of our leaderboard in the first week of “The We Give Blood Drive.”
For everyone else trying to catch up, here’s a guide to this blockbuster competition.
Opening Drive: Tom Brady Helps Abbott Get Things Started
We can’t put it any better than seven-time Super Bowl champ, Michigan alumnus and “The We Give Blood Drive” ambassador Tom Brady:
Blood donation “is a cause that truly matters for so many reasons. The one that struck me was that every donation can save up to three lives,” Brady said.
That fact is central to Abbott’s “The We Give Blood Drive” with the Big Ten Conference. Brady joined Abbott Chairman and CEO Robert Ford and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti at Thursday’s kickoff news conference in Rosemont, Ill., saying he simply couldn’t turn down the opportunity to inspire students, alumni and fans to give blood and help turn the tide against one of the largest blood shortages in a generation.
“There’s so many amazing people who give back to the community because we have the opportunity to do that,” the retired star quarterback said. “And my parents instilled in me that we should pay it forward.”
Said Ford: “We knew as a leader in diagnostics and testing we had to do something powerful to draw in donors. What better way to inspire people to donate than tapping into rivalries between Big Ten schools and offering up a friendly competition.”
And now, that competition is underway. Go to bigten.org/abbott to get in the game.
A New Race for First Place: ‘The We Give Blood Drive’
This December, the Big Ten Conference will award more than a football champion. Get ready to witness the crowning of “The We Give Blood Drive” champion.
Abbott and the Big Ten Conference partnered to launch “The We Give Blood Drive” on Thursday, opening up a conference-wide competition to encourage blood donations and help save lives by building out the U.S. blood supply for generations to come.
It will all lead up to the 2024 Discover Big Ten Football Championship Game on December 7 in Indianapolis. We’ll award the school responsible for the most donations with $1 million to advance student or community health.
Get all the details at https://bigten.org/abbott and find out how you can help carry your team to victory and make a generational impact. Game on!
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