Mixon Gives Kids New Bikes!

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(12-22-2021, 11:02 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: I get what you mean, but I also don't view it as my prerogative to tell Joe Mixon how to spend his money. It's a nice gesture even if he could afford to do more.

Absolutely.. Spend it how he wants otherwise it's not his to begin with..  I've always suspected these kinds of photo ops are funded by the team or even the league, but I dunno.. It's not like NFL stars have to live on foodstamps and medicaid..  Either way it's dirt cheap boilerplate PR..  Any marquee player not doing some kind of feel good PR isn't usually around very long.. The one player who went way beyond boilerplate PR was Chad Johnson, but I suspect he had sponsors paying for a lot of it. Chad built his own brand among brands.. There are always ways for a good PR company to find sponsors for these kinds of events.. The bicycle company certainly wouldn't mind seeing their brand in the pictures.. In the PR business it's called coop advertising.. Example: when a store throws an expensive item on sale for a loss it's called a loss leader and it's usually the manufacturer or distributor paying for it. Customers always think it's the store just being nice.. LOL