FILE — Former Dallas linebacker Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson is pictured during a Cowboys’ practice at the Star in Frisco, June15, 2017. Henderson, 67, recently received his two Pfizer vaccine shots and is encouraging others to do the same as soon as they can.
Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson knows the history and understands the resistance. The former Cowboys linebacker also watches the news from his Boca Raton, Fla., home and sees African-Americans dying from COVID-19 at alarming rates.
Henderson, 67, has received his two Pfizer vaccine shots, driving an hour to a hospital in Miami to get vaccinated.
His message is clear, not so much for the African-American community, but everyone: “I didn’t take the vaccine for me,” he said Wednesday morning. “I took it for you.”
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