Former NFL Pro Bowler and MLB All-Star Bo Jackson was among the donors who helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in May's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
"I don't know if it's because I'm getting old," Jackson told Jim Vertuno of The Associated Press. "It's just not right for parents to bury their kids. It's just not right.
"I know every family there probably works their butts off just to do what they do. ... The last thing they needed was to shell out thousands of dollars for something that never should have happened.