Jen Bielema, Eli Manning, And More Take The Ice Bucket Challenge For ALS [Video]

Jen Bielema, Eli Manning, and many more have stepped onto the field in order to take the ice bucket challenge in order to raise awareness for ALS.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, Jen Bielema’s pig nose photo went viral last year, never mind when she and Jen Vrabel were butting heads.

At this point, you’re probably wondering what the ice bucket challenge is in the first place, and what ALS stands for as well. ALS are the initials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurological disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. ALS is more commonly known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” named after the famed baseball player who contracted the disease at the height of his career.

Somewhere along the way, the idea of raising money for ALS research got attached to YouTube Challenges, which is where you accept a challenge, and upload a video of yourself attempting the challenge. If you fail the challenge or fail to upload a video of yourself doing the challenge in a certain amount of time, you agree to donate money to charity based upon peer pressure. In this case, Pete Frates, a Massachusetts resident with ALS, proposed that if you don’t agree to have a bucket of ice water dumped on your head, then you must donate some money to ALS research.

When Coach Bret Bielema’s wife, Jen Bielema, completed the ice bucket challenge, she challenged KNWA’s Neile Jones and all of the active Tri Delta sorority sisters at the University of Arkansas to continue the trend.

50-year-old Steve Broas suffers from ALS, and he challenged the two-time Super Bowl champ Eli Manning just before a bucket of ice was dumped on his own head. The New York Giants took up the challenge, and Manning, coach Tom Coughlin and general manager Jerry Reese had the ice buckets dumped on their heads on Thursday right after their final training camp practice of the year.

While we may have fun watching Jen Bielema and Eli Manning get doused, does the ice bucket challenge actually work? The ALS Association reports that between July 29 and August 13, they raised nearly $6 million since the YouTube Challenge began. As a comparison, the association raised only $1.2 million during the same time period last year.

If you missed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and you would still like to help fight ALS, you can always make a donation to the ALS Association. Help fight this deadly, debilitating disease.

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