According to Kyle Ratke of Vikings Wire, the Minnesota Vikings, led by owners Zygi and Mark Wilf, have donated $6 million to causes related to coronavirus. The companies that have benefited to date are the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, the Jewish Federations of North America, RWJBarnabas Health, the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the United Way Worldwide, the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Second Harvest Heartland and the Minnesota Disaster Recovery Fund for Coronavirus.
Of the $6 million, a total of $1 million will be going to the United Way Worldwide. Meanwhile the organizations that will benefit from the Jewish Federations of North America will be those centered in New York and New Jersey.
Zygi and Mark Wolf are American billionaires. Zygi is the chairman of the Vikings and Mark is the president of the Vikings. The Wolf family has a history of living through complete devastation and heartbreak. Zygi and Mark’s parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Nazi occupied Poland before moving to New Jersey in the early 1950’s. Zygi was born in West Germany in 1950.
Coronavirus has been completely devastating to the New Jersey-New York region. There are currently 251, 941 cases of coronavirus in New York and 18, 776 deaths. In New Jersey there are 85, 301 cases and 4202 deaths. Minnesota meanwhile has 2470 cases and 143 deaths.
In the Minnesota sports scene, there are rumours that the PGA Championship, which moved from May to August because of coronavirus, may not take place at Harding Park in San Francisco as originally scheduled. Two possible alternative courses that could be used as a replacement are Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota and Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Northern California was one of the initial coronavirus hotspots and the governor of California Gavin Newsom has been lukewarm to California hosting any major sporting event until coronavirus is well under control.
