Wolves and Ducks, Living Together

In the wild, wolves eat ducks (I think...I may have missed that part of the National Geographic special).  But in this case, our Wolf is an honorary Duck, since both his parents went to the beautiful University of Oregon.  And because of his honorary duckiness, the great community over at Addicted to Quack (ATQ) has put together a little fundraiser on Wyatt's behalf.

ATQ is a blog I frequent for Duck news, college sports commentary, and conversation with a fantastic community of Oregon alums, students, future students, and fans.  When they heard about Wyatt's condition, many of them offered their prayers and best wishes.  Then they went above and beyond.

One of them, Will (axemen23), knowing Oregon football coach Chip Kelly loves to support causes like this, emailed Coach Kelly (pictured here in all his visored glory - no he's not really that mean, that's just his "I don't deal in hypotheticals" stare), told him our story, and asked if he might be willing to help.  Coach Kelly was more than happy to oblige and signed a visor and a football.  Will, with the help of Dave, Matt, and Quinn (other illustrious members of ATQ), then put these items up for sale on eBay, with the proceeds going to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, an organization that funds research and provides a community for those affected by OI (by the way, my screen name over at ATQ is Gorbachav5, so Wyatt is known as "Little Gorby," just so you know who they're referring to).

UPDATE: The items have been taken off of eBay for some reason.  I'm trying to figure out why that is.  Once they're back up, I'll let you know and update the links.  Sorry about that.

UPDATE 2: Okay, the items are relisted and the links below should work again.  Apparently because so many cool people in Oregon want to help the OI Foundation (and want sweet Chip Kelly autographed football stuff), eBay thought that there was a shilling scam.  They know what's going on now, so that shouldn't happen again.  Resume your bidding!

Here is the link to the visor: Chip Kelly signed visor

Here is the link to the football: Chip Kelly signed football

UPDATE 3: Quinn over at ATQ donated a Mike Bellotti-signed football for the auction.  For those who don't know, Bellotti was the previous football coach at Oregon.

If you're interested in some sweet Oregon memorabilia for your collection, or if you're just interested in aiding a great cause for people affected by OI (or maybe a little of both!), go to those links and place your bids!

Thanks to all the guys at ATQ who put this together.  You guys are awesome!  Your support and encouragement has been very touching to me and Julia.  Wolf shows you guys his version of Blue Steel in gratitude.

Thanks also to Coach Kelly, who took a few minutes out of a busy practice schedule to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.  Oregon football is in good hands.

Go Wolf!  And go Ducks!