[1] The fund is named after Sandusky's late brother, a football player at the University of Tulsa, who died of septic shock caused by pneumonia in 1978 at the age of 19.

[7]In 2014, Gerry Sandusky authored his first book, Forgotten Sundays: A Son's Story of Love, Loss and Life from the Sidelines of the NFL.

[8] With a foreword by Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh, Forgotten Sundays is Gerry Sandusky's coming-of-age story about a son's relationship with his father.

[9] He is not related to former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.

[10] On July 25, 2018, he appeared on The Daily Show as one of the guests in a segment about people who get harassing tweets because they have a similar name to someone infamous and get mistaken for this person.