September 20, 200520 yr September 20, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) -- A fund-raising telethon that featured more than 30 current and former NFL players raised $5 million for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in about 6 1/2 hours. Monday night's telethon was part of the NFL's ``Hurricane Relief Weekend'' and coincided with a special ``Monday Night Football'' doubleheader on ABC and ESPN. Players such as John Elway, Donovan McNabb, Art Shell and Frank Gifford took turns, 12 at a time, spending between 75 minutes to 2 hours answering telephones and taking donations. ``We appreciate the tremendous response of our fans and everything that our teams and players are doing to support the relief effort,'' NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said. ``We are going to stay at it because all of America is going to have to stay at it.'' NFL teams and relief organizations have raised approximately $4 million from fans at stadiums for Hurricane Katrina relief, the league said, bringing the total generated by the NFL to $21 million. The doubleheader of the New Orleans Saints against the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins versus the Dallas Cowboys was seen in an average of 14.7 million households between 9-11 p.m. Nice donations from everyone involved.
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