Eagles Christmas Album Has Raised $1.25M So Far
A Philly Special Christmas — the Philadelphia Eagles charity project featuring Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, and Lane Johnson -- has been an unexpected success. Via The Inquirer:
Just as the Eagles earned the NFC’s top seed and are now a victory away from the Super Bowl, A Philly Special Christmas has reached #1 on Billboard’s compilation albums chart.
The $75 green vinyl LP sold out of three pressings. This month, it was announced the project had raised $250,000 for the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, who initially aimed to use the proceeds for a toy drive. They will also be able to fund a summer camp now.
But as impressive as all that is, the quarter-of-a-million figure represents only a fraction of what the album has gone on to raise. Because now that proceeds are in from sales of the third pressing of the LP — which was much larger than the first two — the number has grown to five times that amount.
Just because I hate football as a sport doesn't mean I don't love the Eagles. (It's a Philly thing!) And I just love people who not only care about humanity, but go out of their way to help. (By the way, the album is pretty good.)