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Bengals' Chad Johnson to unveil website and new checklist

by Kirkendall on Sep 8, 2007 1:18 PM EDT in Charity

On Monday, Chad Johnson, in conjunction with Degree Men, will unveil his 2007 Who can cover 85 checklist. The website will allow you, the fans, to vote for the way he checks his list. Not only would you help Chad, but for each vote, Degree Men will donate 8.5 cents to Feed the Children -- an international non-profit hunger relief organization. The website will also include a Risk Cam that will feature Chad and his brother out and about in Cincinnati. The website will launch on Monday, so start cast your votes, help Chad, but most importantly, help a great cause.

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Taste of the NFL

by Kirkendall on Jun 1, 2007 9:39 AM EDT in Charity

All of the Bengals players and coaches will be in attendance for the Taste of the NFL event tonight (Friday).

This year, attendees at the "Taste of the NFL" event sponsored by the Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank are walking away with prizes contained in specially printed paper grocery bags supplied by Duro Bag Each year, The Freestore Foodbank hosts a variety of community events including the popular "Taste of the NFL" -- the only NFL sanctioned local event where all of the Cincinnati Bengals players and the coaches are in attendance.

Nationally known as an outreach effort to help fight hunger on the part of NFL teams across the country, the Cincinnati "Taste of NFL" celebrity dinner party June 1st in Paul Brown Stadium sold out well in advance of the event. Always a great party, the 2007 theme is "Live and Let Fry" with a dinner-by-the-bite format prepared by some of the finest chefs in the area. All proceeds generated locally are to benefit The Freestore Foodbank.

Paper Grocery Bags Help Feed the Hungry
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Chad vs. Horse. Yes, Chad. Racing a Horse.

by Kirkendall on May 31, 2007 9:45 AM EDT in Charity

Some say that Chad Johnson is a complete jack-ass. I don't agree, but that's their own opinion. However, Chad will be racing against the jack-ass' cousin, a horse, to benefit Feed the Children -- "an Oklahoma City-based charity that provides food, medicine, clothing, and other necessities to children around the world."

No, Chad isn't riding the horse. He's actually racing AGAINST the horse. Yeap. Chad. We love him. And you have to believe that Chad thinks he has a chance. Yeap. That's Chad.

As part of the fund-raiser, Johnson has donated sports memorabilia that will be sold at silent auction; River Downs will make a donation to Feed the Children; and Restore the Roar's owner, Patricia Glenn, will donate a portion of the horse's earnings this year to the Marvin Lewis Foundation, a fund run by the Bengals' head coach that aids youth organizations and nonprofit groups in the Cincinnati area.

This team holds more benefits and does more charitable work to help the community than they are recognized for. Idiots and talking points artists ensure the black eye never heels for this team by totally avoiding stories that makes Cincinnati look good. And as long as phonies like Colin Coward continue to slam cities while holding onto his estrogen spray in the backseat of his GEO Metro, then they'll continue to play the role of idiot that jacks up controversy because the ratings would suffer terribly.

But I also know, in a way, I'm enabling the problem by not going out of my own way to promote the good when it happens. So we're creating a new "Charity" section that will balance out the bad. Hopefully.

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