HIGHEST COURT BACKED HIM AND
ORDERED THE TRADEMARK BUREAU TO
ISSUE A NEW RULING.
L.A. RAMS ARE TEAMING UP WITH
THE UNITED WAY TO BRING
AWARENESS TO THE ISSUE OF
HOMELESSNESS.
JUAN: PLAYERS TO PART IN
EDUCATIONAL TOURS WHERE THEY
HEARD FROM THOSE LIVING ON SKID
ROW.
CHRISTINE LAZAR HAS THE STORY.
REPORTER: PLAYERS WITH THE LOS
ANGELES RAMS SAT AROUND THE
TABLE TODAY ON SKID ROW AND
LISTEN TO FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF
LIFE ON THE STREETS.
I WAS TREATED AS AN ANIMAL
WHEN I WAS OUT THERE.
NO ONE GAVE ME ANY RESPECT.
BOTH THESE WOMEN WHO SPENT
DECADES HOMELESS SPENT THE
AFTERNOON WITH WILLIAM HAYES AND
MORGAN FOX.
WHEREVER THERE WAS A PLACE
EVEN IF WAS GRASS AND IT WASN'T
WASN'T --
REPORTER: BOTH PLAYERS VISITED A
PERMANENT HOUSING COMPLEX AND
LEARNED ABOUT THE SCOPE OF LA'S
HOMELESS PROBLEM.
ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT SOME 47,000
PEOPLE ARE LIVING ON CITY
STREETS.
IT'S JUST KIND OF KEEPING THE
WORD GOING LETTING THEM KNOW
SOMEBODY CARES ABOUT THEM.
HAYES HAS COVETED HOMELESSNESS
WITH HIS FOUNDATION THAT HE
BROUGHT WITH HEMERICK A MEMBER
OF THE TEAM, 22-YEAR-OLD FOX.
IT'S DIFFERENT TO READ IT OR
SEE AN ARTICLE OR HEAR A
STATISTIC BUT
FROM SOMEONE'S MOUTH WHEN YOU
ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH
PRESIDENT PERSPECTIVE.
REPORTER: THE UNITED WAY
ORGANIZED THE TOUR AND PARTNERED
WITH THE RAMS TO BE PART OF THE
SOLUTION TO END HOMELESSNESS.
SINCE WE ARE THE HOMELESS
CAPITAL OF THE NATION WE ARE
THRILLED THEY ARE HERE AND
EDUCATING THEIR PLAYERS.
REPORTER: THE RAMS DEFENSIVE
LINE OF COMMITTED TO A PROGRAM
CALLED SAK HOMELESSNESS.
EACH OF THEM PLEDGING A DONATION
ABOUT $1000 EVERY TIME THEY SACK
THE QUARTERBACK OF THE OPPOSING
