How Ten Lives Club will use donations for Bills’ Tyler Bass

The cats at Ten Lives Club rescue in Hamburg needed a day off. 

The felines had been hard at work in the days following the Buffalo Bills’ 27-24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs Jan. 21 in the AFC divisional playoff game. 

National news programs like the “Today Show” and “Inside Edition” had been requesting interviews with the humans at the shelter and needed video footage of the cats sporting Bills jerseys and looking cute for their viewers. 

It was a tough job, but the cats were up to the challenge as a way to highlight the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for Ten Lives Club in honor of Bills kicker Tyler Bass. 

With less than two minutes left in the playoff game, Bass missed a field goal that would have tied the score. Following the team’s loss, Bass became the target of online trolls, who harassed and threatened him. 

The outpouring of support for the nonprofit favored by Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass was the focus of a segment on NBC’s “Today” on Thursday morning that included some Taylor Swift lyrics.

As Bills Mafia is apt to do when a player is going through a hard time, fans rallied around Bass and began donating to a local charity he supported: Ten Lives Club. 

As of Thursday, Ten Lives Club had received more than $377,000 from…

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