ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has made a $15,000 donation to Mott Children's Hospital, sending a family to Chicago to watch him play in a Monday Night Football game.

Stafford said Monday he did it to give patient Faith Falzon of Dexter and her family something to look forward to after a couple rough years. She has a bowel disorder without a cure.

Stafford bid on a package donated by ESPN announcer and Ann Arbor resident Mike Tirico. It gives the family six tickets to the Lions-Bears game on Oct. 22, two nights of accommodations, dinner and a behind-the-scenes tour with Tirico.

Stafford made the donation Saturday during a weekend of events in Ann Arbor that raised $1.35 million for Mott hospital, part of the University of Michigan health system..

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