LH’s Marshall Newhouse is creating lots of buzz now that pro football teams are back in action and his Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers are back on the practice field. In this article from the Milwaukee newspaper, Wisconsin folks take note of his outstanding effort at training camp and his generous heart toward others.
While waiting for an end to the lockout, Marshall opted to join a nine-day mission trip to Haiti. After building homes for children and orphans, worries about which position he’d be playing on the football field and where he’d land in the team’s competitive hierarchy paled in comparison to the real-life struggles of earthquake victims trying to survive.
“The city of Port-au-Prince was built to hold 250,000 people,” he told the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. “There’s currently 2, 3 million people living there. Seeing all those people selling goods – but nobody has the money to buy the goods. It’s just turmoil.”
The experience of working to improve the lives of the needy and getting to know them as people was certainly emotionally satisfying, but it may have had an impact on Marshall’s play, as well. “Newhouse has made a performance leap so noticeable that it has caught the attention of those who would know best,” according to the article.
The Packers play Cleveland this Saturday at 6:30pm in preseason.
