After the 12-year old boy from Yukon, Oklahoma, handwrote letters to executives of 32 NFL teams, he was shocked and (unhappy) to receive a personal response from the owner of the Carolina Panthers.
When Heather Pope's son Cade was homesick from school the week before Christmas, he was "kind of bored" and " needed something
(take) up his time", so he asked his parents he could write to every professional football team. On December 26, Cade sent 16 letters to the NFC teams. January 5, Cade sent 16 letters to the AFC teams. Cade (write), "My family and I love football. We play football and watch NFL games every weekend. My parents are St. Louis Rams' (fan). My brother is a fan too." His mother Pope said, "With Christmas and different (activity) it took him about three weeks to handwrite all of those letters. "He didn't (real) have one team that he wanted to hear from," she said. "He just wanted to see what kind of response he'd get." Last Thursday, his mother a box from the Panthers. Cade was still at school, but she sent him a photo.
When Cade came home, he opened the package to find a handwritten note Richardson. Pope said Cade was "overjoyed that he got that kind of response".
