Mixon Gives Kids New Bikes!

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(12-22-2021, 11:07 AM)grampahol Wrote: 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..

You might be right about the team wanting PR. For every Mixon story like this, there are also the unaccounted acts pro athletes do to help others. For example, after the Griffey Jr. era was done in Cincinnati, some media members would mention the stuff unnoticed by fans about Griffey's charitable work, donating money, giving his time to causes, and the such. So maybe some players doing it privately means the public ones are team driven? I have no idea.

Anyhow, hopefully those kids enjoyed their Mixon time!