Andre Johnson: Non-Asshole

[Dave Gray]

With all the bad news about people shooting themselves, etc., I figured some good news was appropriate.  Dude drops 19K to kids in Child Protective Services for X-mas gifts.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Always nice to see good news.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

Class act indeed.

[Brian Fein]

Toys R Us!  Good move.  WalMart sucks!

Nice to see reports of someone doing something good for a change.

[Landshark]

$19,000 is very little to him but it will mean a lot to kids who would otherwise have no Christmas at all.  Good to see such a heartwarming gesture.  This guy is an elite receiver on the field and a class act off of it.

[Sunstroke]

A real superstar would have wrapped them all himself...

Andre = Class

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

Toys R Us!  Good move.  WalMart sucks!

Agreed.....I know I am in the minority but I hate Walmart. My company gives Walmart gift crads at Thanksgiving to all of the employees and because I refuse to shop there I give it to one of the girls in the office to buy canned goods with for our company Christmas food drive that we donate.

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[mecadonzilla]

I'm really happy that Andre is doing this, but what I REALLY want for Christmas is for him to score some damn TDs for my fantasy team!   He's been killing me this season.

[MaineDolFan]

I saw this floating around on Facebook.  Very cool move.  Hopefully this will inspire some of his peers to do the same...

[EKnight]

I'm really happy that Andre is doing this, but what I REALLY want for Christmas is for him to score some damn TDs for my fantasy team!   He's been killing me this season.

After weeks of no production I finally benched him the week him blew up for 33 points. Grrr. If given the choice after last week's poor showing, would you start him or DeMarco Murray at flex? I already have AJ Green and Vincent Jackson at WR and Rice and TRich at RB. Sorry to derail the thread. -EK

[MaineDolFan]

I've given up on research for WR.  I started Gordon, from the Browns last week, BY ACCIDENT.  Dude hauled in over 30 points for me.  How does that happen in the real world?

What a strange fantasy season!  Sorry for the hijack!!! 

[Brian Fein]

I have been scrounging for a RB all season.  Been riding sub-par numbers (10-14 a week) from my starting backs because Dez Bryant has been a beast and is carrying my team.

Sorry for the hijack!

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I saw this floating around on Facebook.  Very cool move.  Hopefully this will inspire some of his peers to do the same...

I think more of them do than you know.  Not every time a player does something good, does he call his marketing agent to make sure it goes viral. Some just do it quietly. 

I do know I have read more stories about the NEP team and players doing good deeds than I have for all 31 other teams combined.  While it is possible that the NEP players and Kraft are more of humanitarians  than the other teams, I doubt that is the case, but simply that the local papers are much more likely to report that Tom Brady hosted a party for underprivileged kids than they are to report that Tannehill did.  And I suspect the Miami paper likewise is more likely to report about the deeds of Dolphins than the Pats.

[MaineDolFan]

They probaby do, but if more did because "they never thought of it before" it would be pretty cool.

[Dave Gray]

Yeah....the Dolphins, I assume the rest of the NFL, as well, is always doing charity stuff, both individually and as a team.  TDMMC is involved in a charity thing for the Dolphins every single year.  When we do web weekend, part of it is some kind of volunteer work.