Mom and Son Given Playoff Tickets for Kind Deed

A mother and son in Philadelphia were surprised with $500 and NFL playoff tickets after an act of kindness. Bryanne McBride and her son Mason were out running errands on a Saturday afternoon, preparing for the Eagles game, when they encountered a stranger who asked them for some money.

“Do you have a dollar by chance? I’m just trying to grab the bus,” Zachery Dereniowski says in the video. Dereniowski runs the “MDMotivator” account on social media and is known for rewarding people for their acts of kindness. Mason thought he recognized the public figure from his videos online. “He said, ‘Mom he sounds like the guy from YouTube.’ And I was like, ‘Alright bro, let’s just give him the change,'” recalled Bryanne. Bryanne looked through her purse and then ran to her car to get some change. When she returns, Dereniowski asks why she decided to help?

“I hate telling people no, especially when I can help,” replied Bryanne. And that’s when Dereniowski returned the money and offered up something huge in return — $500 and tickets to the Eagles-Giants NFC divisional playoff game. The mother and son were in complete shock. Bryanne said “We were actually getting our goodies to watch the game from home. He said it. It was like he fell out of the sky it happened so fast.”

She knew it was Mason and his dad, Darryl, who had to go to the game. “It felt real when we met down at the Linc at 5:30 and went through. The players come in, that’s when, ok this is real,” said Darryl. For Mason, he’s still speechless about the experience. His favorite part, of course, was meeting the players.