The Miami Dolphins will celebrate the NFL’s annual My Cause My Cleats initiative during Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints as more than 40 Dolphins players and coaches will wear customized cleats in support of causes spanning from youth education, mental health awareness, cancer research, foster care, homelessness and more.
One of those players is offensive lineman Daniel Brunskill, who will be supporting the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, the NFL’s largest fundraiser event hosted annually by the Miami Dolphins with the mission to improve people’s lives through financial support for innovative cancer research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Like many others around the world, Brunskill has been closely affected by cancer.
“I’ve had family members that are dealing with cancer,” Brunskill said. “I have an uncle that just got another cancer diagnosis. He’s recently beat a few, and now he’s got another one that the challenge is in front of him. It’s something that’s been dealt with in my family a few times, and it’s always been big to be able to help that in your community and just keep supporting that because there’s a lot of people in this world that are dealing with that.”
That’s how Brunskill met Johari, a seven-year-old patient at Alex’s Place, the clinic for childhood cancer at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Johari is the artist behind the cleats Brunskill will wear during Sunday’s game. This week, she made a surprise visit to the Baptist Health Training Complex to present Brunskill with the cleats.
