By PFW staff
July 10, 2008

Although he has been busy lately angling for a new contract, Cardinals QB Kurt Warner has been tending to much more important matters this week, offering his assistance to his flood-ravaged hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Warner, a two-time league MVP, surprised numerous flood victims when he arrived at the local American Red Cross headquarters and greeted about 50 other volunteers earlier this week, according to the Des Moines Register. He then rode to a local church and hoisted water bottles in a Red Cross van before departing for the town's most seriously afflicted neighborhoods to hand out hamburgers and autographed Cardinals T-shirts.

Warner was moved into action after receiving a call from his brother, who told him that, at one point during the recent flooding in Cedar Rapids, the water got as high as the Interstate 380 bridges downtown. Warner's boyhood home in southeast Cedar Rapids was not affected by the flood, but his parents' business, Shumacher Carpets, sustained major damage.

Well-known for his off-the-field charity work and humanitarian efforts, Warner pledged to help bring "as much relief funds as possible" to the area.