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Pete Meadows had a massive seizure in January, his family says, and by March he was struggling to concentrate — warning signs that led to a cancer recurrence diagnosis after his initial brain tumor was treated years earlier. The news arrives as his family’s Thanksgiving tradition, the Meadows Turkey Bowl in Hinckley, Ohio, keeps growing into one of the region’s most unlikely charitable juggernauts, having raised a cumulative $5,654,800 through its 2025 game.
The annual pickup football game, organized by the Meadows family and now drawing roughly 40 players across four teams, has become far more than a holiday tradition since it started as a small backyard contest and turned into a formal fundraiser for the St. Vincent de Paul Society in 2005, according to Cleveland.com. It was not a fundraiser at all from 1990 through 2004. The event’s single-year haul has climbed almost every season since, from $800 in 2005 to a record $652,000 in 2025, and organizers say their goal each year is simply to raise one dollar more than the year before — a mark they have never missed, the same outlet reports…