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Hi Friend,

I want to take a break from the campaign for a moment and tell you something a little more personal.

I grew up in Florida, raised by parents who instilled in me a simple but powerful truth: that God blesses us not so we can hoard those blessings, but so we can pour them out for others. That conviction has shaped every decision I've ever made — on the field, in the broadcast booth, in my marriage, and in raising our four kids here in Arizona.

Football was my first blessing.

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I wasn't recruited by the University of Michigan because I was the biggest or the fastest. I was recruited because I was relentless. I showed up every single day and outworked everyone around me. When I got to Ann Arbor, I was surrounded by the best players in the country — and I had to earn my place among them. That experience shaped me in ways I'm still discovering today.

We won the National Championship in 1997. I can still feel what that locker room felt like afterward — the exhaustion, the joy, the overwhelming sense that everything we had sacrificed together had been worth it. It was the first time I truly understood what a team could accomplish when every single person in the room was committed to something bigger than themselves.

That lesson has never left me.

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The NFL gave me fourteen years that I would not trade for anything. Six teams, thousands of reps, more missed kicks than I care to remember — and enough made ones to keep me in the league long enough to fall in love with the game all over again every single season.

But the moments I am most proud of from my playing career have nothing to do with statistics.

When the NFL went into labor negotiations in 2011, my fellow players asked me to represent them. They didn't ask me because I was a star — they asked me because they trusted me to fight for them with integrity and without an agenda. I sat across the table from the NFL owners at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C., fighting for the rights and livelihoods of the men I had played alongside for over a decade.

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It was the first time I truly understood what it meant to be a voice for people who needed one.

I think about that experience a lot these days.

After football, I spent nearly a decade in the broadcast booth at CBS. I loved that chapter of my life — the preparation, the storytelling, the privilege of bringing the game I love to millions of fans every Sunday. Five Emmy Awards sit on a shelf somewhere in my house, and I am genuinely proud of them.

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But I will be honest with you: sitting in a booth watching the game was never going to be enough for me forever.

Rebecca and I moved our family to Arizona sixteen years ago when I signed with the Cardinals, and we never left — because this place got into our souls. We raised our four kids here. We started the Feely Family Foundation to invest in youth and education. I served on the Gilbert Christian School Board because I believe in the future of this place as deeply as I believe in anything. I coached my daughter’s soccer team and took Gilbert Christian to a state championship while being named Arizona State Coach of the Year.

This is home. These are our people.

And through all of it — the football, the broadcasting, the coaching, the foundation work — I kept coming back to the same truth my parents instilled in me when I was a kid in Florida:

Blessings aren't for hoarding. They are for pouring out.

Football gave me a platform. It gave me discipline, resilience, the ability to perform under pressure, and the experience of fighting for people who trusted me to represent them well. It taught me that the best teams are built on trust, sacrifice, and a commitment to something bigger than any one player.

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Every single one of those lessons prepared me for this campaign.

When I look at what is happening in Arizona's 1st District — at the border crisis, at the families being squeezed by taxes and regulations, at Washington's decades-long failure to actually solve the problems it was sent there to fix — I don't see an impossible situation. I see a fourth quarter deficit. I see a game that hasn't been won yet but absolutely can be.

I have been in that situation before. I know what it takes to come out on the other side.

God has blessed me with a remarkable journey. I don't take a single day of it for granted. And I believe with everything I have that He has brought me to this moment for a reason.

I am asking you — not as a candidate making a pitch, but as a neighbor and a fellow Arizonan — to consider standing with me as we head into the most important stretch of this campaign.

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If you are able to chip in $10, $25, $50 or more, I would be genuinely grateful. Every dollar is an investment not just in this race, but in the Arizona we are fighting to protect for our kids and grandkids.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. It means more than you know.

For faith, family, and Arizona —

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Jay Feely
Republican, AZ-1

P.S. — I didn't get into this race because it was an easy path. I got in because I believe Arizona's families deserve a fighter in Congress who has actually been tested — and won.
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If you can spare $10, $25, or $50 today, I would be honored to have your support.

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