When Pat O’Donnell temporarily moved into Mason Crosby’s basement after signing with the Green Bay Packers in March, the punter and kicker bonded over more than just laughs from spoofing the bunk beds scene from "Step Brothers" on social media.
They also discovered a common cause.
It was Crosby who introduced O’Donnell to the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation’s 50th annual Lombardi Golf Classic in June at North Hill Country Club in Menomonee Falls. Crosby has been involved with the charity golf outing since his rookie season in Green Bay in 2007.
O’Donnell, who spent his first eight seasons with the Chicago Bears, learned through that event Lombardi had died of colon cancer in 1970 at age 57.