After Eagles defensive end Chris Long got a Twitter shout-out Friday morning from former President Barack Obama for donating his entire 2017 salary to charity, I asked him how it ranked with, say, his strip sacks of Jared Goff or Derek Carr.
“It’s different,’’ he said with a smile. “It’s cool. It’s an honor that that would fly across one of our former presidents’ radar.
“That’s the whole point of trying to do good things in the community: Spreading positivity. It’s an honor to be mentioned.’’
In September, after his hometown of Charlottesville, Va., drew unwanted national attention when white surpremacists and neo-Nazis held a march there that turned violent, Long and his wife, Megan, announced that he would donate his first six game checks to fund a pair of scholarships to his alma mater, St.