Bills' Carpenter Digs Out Elderly Neighbors During Buffalo Snowstorm
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Dan Carpenter is one heck of a neighbor.
The Bills kicker has been checking in on the elderly couple next door to his Orchard Park home, clearing their vents and shoveling them out amid a brutal lake-effect storm that has dumped more than four feet of snow around the Buffalo area.
Carpenter's neighbor, 88-year-old Roy Noble, said the pro football player had to work his way from house to house Tuesday through five-foot drifts with only a small shovel.
"The first thing he said was, 'Is everything OK?' " Noble told the Buffalo News. "I thought that was really nice."
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Noble has been sitting out the storm with his 87-year-old wife.
"He's going to come around and check on us," Noble said of Carpenter. "He and his wife gave us their phone number and she wants us to call them if they have any problems – you don't see people like that anymore. We're going to reward him someday. He's a helluva nice guy."
Carpenter wasn't the only member of the Bills to lend a helping hand on Tuesday. Head coach Doug Marrone was among a group of motorists who helped free a car from a snow drift, according to the Buffalo News.
Marrone said he was on his way to Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills are preparing to take on the New York Jets at home Sunday.
"All my life people have been telling me what I can't do," Marrone told the newspaper of traveling in the storm.
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