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Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I don't think I could do his generosity justice.

A partial list off the top of my head:

Upon reading about two firefighters and a police officer dying in the line of duty in the '80s, he formed The Gold Shield Foundation which provides a college education to the spouses and children of fallen officers and firefighters. The Foundation has been a great success and has even spread to the surrounding counties. Tragically, we just lost two police officers in Tampa and the 5 kids left behind will have their educations taken care of when they are ready for college.

A while back, the city of Tampa announced that they didn't have the money to buy badly needed new police cars. George stepped up and bought them. They were always easy to spot because they had Yankee logo stickers on them.

He used to rent the Big Sombrero for a night every year and hold a high school football jamboree so the kids could have an opportunity to play in an NFL stadium.

He would anonymously help people he saw on the local news if they had some sort of tragedy.

He donated the money to build a trauma center at All Childrens Hospital.

He built a branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs and continued to fund it with charity events.

One day, he walked into his favorite breakfast restaurant and announced that he was going to pay to take all the employees to New York for a weekend to see a Broadway play and Yankees game.

When a little league concession stand burned down, he immediately paid for a new one.

I can go on and on. These are only some of the things he did that were publicized, I'm sure there are many more that we will never know about.