On June 4th I attended the third annual Larry-oke charity event hosted by New England Patriot special team captain Larry Izzo.  Larry grew up in a military family and has always supported the troops and now is able to use his celebrity status to raise additional funds for military based charities.  The past two events have raised over 200K each and hopefully this year surpassed that!

New England Patriot Kelly Washington

This is not an event I go to work at, I just go as a spectator to help support a great cause and to laugh at some of our boys making asses out of themselves (there’s something to be said for NFL players who don’t mind busting out some New Kids on the Block, dance moves and all.)  We even managed to get one of the players to wear my bright pink headband that I just happend to have in my purse..he wore it while singing “Physical.”  Sadly, I just found out he was cut from the team the next day.   I hope it wasn’t because of the headband.

Mike Dragosavich wearing my headband

I wasn’t sure what the photo policy was and I didn’t want to chance having to bring all of my gear back to the car so I just brought my 40d with my fixed 50mm lens.  I was cose to the stage so I was able to get a few decent shots but I was a bit too close for some of the funnier group performances.

I’ve posted some of the photos on my Flickr account if you want to check them out and please check out Larry’s charity website and help if you can!

 Wide Receiver Wes Welker gearing down

Tags: larryoke, new england patriots

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