'Devastated' Packers Kid To Get New Bike from Seattle's Voxx Coffee

[big_dog]

New bike might make those Packers-fan tears go away
Posted by Bob Payne

A video showing a 6-year-old Green Packers fan crying after the team’s loss to the Seahawks on Sunday has been a hit on YouTube. Now it looks like things might be looking up for the little guy.

A particularly sad moment in the video is when the boy sees Michael Bennett of the Seahawks riding around the stadium on a Seattle Police bike: “And look now they have a bicycle!” the boy exclaims amid tears.

“Once I saw it I was like ‘I gotta do something for that kid,'” says Michael Uetz, co-owner of Voxx Coffee in Seattle. He contacted the boy’s mother via messaging on YouTube, confirmed that he didn’t already have a bike, and arranged to have a shiny new one shipped to the family tomorrow, he said Tuesday.

All Uetz asked for in return is that the boy’s mother post a video of the youngster riding the new bike. “It’s exciting to do something like that for someone,” Uetz said.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/seahawks/2015/01/20/daily-hawks-fan-buzz-chilly-celebration-awesome-t-shirt-flag-retires/

[big_dog]

7. as a lifelong cubs fan myself , this young man is learning a valuable lesson in life...

mom: but we've always got next year! kid: but it takes SOOOOO long

[Scuba]

9. You're a Cubs fan? You should be getting a Ferrari.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. ROFL

[mythology]

2. That's a good deed

Although why would the kid's parents put the initial video on youtube? That just seems mean of them.

[big_dog]

6. Mama's already on TMZ

Kierra Yarbrough did her 6-year-old son a huge favor by posting a video of him bawling his eyes out over the Packers loss -- instead of embarrassing him ... she helped him get a new bicycle!

The adorable video shows little Xavier crying a river after Green Bay's devastating defeat to the Seattle Seahawks -- and when he spotted a Seattle player riding around the field on a bicycle ... he really lost it.

Kierra was on "TMZ Live" Tuesday ... explaining why she put her son's tears on front street -- possibly opening him up to schoolyard taunting -- and it involves none other than Aaron Rodgers.

But the video's already worked a different kind of miracle -- Kierra says a local Seattle coffee shop saw the video and reached out to offer Xavier a bike of his own. Not as cool as a trip to the Super Bowl, but it will do.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/category/tmzsports/2/#ixzz3PVDzoNgG

[Capt. Obvious]

10. Fairly common

[LibertyLover]

13. Oh that poor whippet -

You can tell that the dog is upset that his human is upset. Lovely dog! I dearly want another whippet, they are lovely dogs. As for the Pats fan, cry me a river.

[Capt. Obvious]

14. Are you all out of tears?

I know Harbaugh is.

[HappyMe]

15. Yeah, not the same thing

as a cute little kid crying.

I do feel bad for the dog.

[glasshouses]

3. Time to take the tree down

[hack89]

4. Is it February yet? Nt

[countryjake]

5. That is heartbreaking and awesome, all in one story.

I feel bad for all the Packers' fans, considering the sheer adrenalin that Hawks' fans have been feeling, even still, all this week. I haven't a doubt that most of Green Bay had that very same adrenalin pumping thru them during most of the game on Sunday, only to have such a crushing defeat come in the final minutes. Hard, very hard to take.

That poor little boy, I'm so glad that he's getting a bicycle from Seattle!

Thanks for sharing, big dog.

[big_dog]

8. as Keith Jackson used to say on College Gameday in the Rose Bowl

'this is what athletics is all about...'

[HappyMe]

11. That's nice.