Andy Lee

Buy a bottle, help a local non-profit.  What’s better than a glass of wine? A bottle of wine for a good cause! Today on QC Morning, Leyla Arcovio, director of wine operations and Andy Lee, NFL player and co-founder of Madelyn’s Fund joined us in studio. Andy talked about about why he and his wife created Madelyn’s Fund. Leyla introduced us to a new wine she created to help benefit this non-profit and she poured us a glass to try. You can try a bottle for yourself this weekend at Reid’s Fine Foods. Leyla Cabernet Bottle Signing: Reid’s Fine Foods, SouthPark location: Friday, March 13thReid’s Fine Foods, Myers Park locations: Saturday, March 28thBoth from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. By Callie PresleyQC Life       ...

Andy Lee likes his cleats tight, really tight. The cleat on his planting foot is half a size smaller than his normal shoes. For the soccer cleat on his punting foot, he goes a size and a half down. It is certainly effective, but not exactly comfortable.  "When the defense is on the field, I sit down and untie it, so my foot doesn't go to sleep," Lee said. So throughout every game, the Cardinals veteran punter will tie and untie his right cleat, in sync with the ups and downs of the game. And on Sunday, each time he looks down, bends down and reties his shoe, Lee will be reminded both of the darkest day of his life and of the good that has since come from it. 'Something positive for other people' Andy Lee's cleats honor Madelyn Lee, his late daughter, who passed away in February 2015 at just 8 days old. (Photo: Derrick Spencer/The Arizona Cardinals) The NFL's...

BY JOURDAN RODRIGUE [email protected] Carolina Panthers punter Andy Lee sat in a chair in a busy Starbucks on a drizzly March Tuesday in Myers Park. He was crying. His wife, Rachel, patted his knee softly, her own large brown eyes brimming as Lee pressed his index finger to the side of his throat to help force his words out. They were strikingly and palpably close in that moment, a private cocoon of sorrow and support in the midst of a city’s mechanical coffee shop routine. There were strangers all around – one, to Andy’s right, trying very hard to hide behind his book, one just behind him and the reporter he had only spoken to twice before in front of him, watching him break down. Rachel and Andy lost their daughter, Madelyn Elizabeth, in 2015 just eight days after she was born in Charlotte. Andy’s was the sudden, swelling sorrow that bursts out of a parent who has suffered...

Lee's late daughter Madelyn lived for eight days. by Jared Dubin CBS Sports Andy Lee, the punter who was traded to the Cleveland Browns last week after spending 11 years with the San Francisco 49ers, is changing his uniform number from No. 4 to No. 8. Ordinarily, this would not merit a story, but Lee is changing his number for a very specific reason. Back in January, Lee and his wife, Rachel, lost their daughter, Madelyn, due to post-birth complications just eight days after she was born. Madelyn swallowed fluid while being delivered via C-section, after which she struggled to breathe and thus was given a breathing tube and was placed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A few days later, she contracted an infection. “From there,” Lee said, per the team's official web site, “the infection just pretty much took over her body and she passed away.” read more...