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Reasoning: The holiday season is always filled with great stories of giving. Thanks to Pro Football Talk for this one:
Andre Johnson brings Christmas to 12 Houston kids
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 4, 2012, 5:54 PM EST
Christmas came early for 12 children in Houston today, when they were treated to Toys R Us shopping sprees courtesy of Texans receiver Andre Johnson.
At an annual Christmas event organized by the Andre Johnson Charitable Foundation, the kids were given shopping carts and told they had 80 seconds (for Johnson’s jersey number) to fill the carts with whatever toys they wanted.
“You hear a minute and twenty seconds and you don’t think that’s a long time, butyou’d be surprised by what these kids can put into their buckets,” Johnson told the Texans’ website.
Johnson’s foundation gladly picked up the tab (which came to $19,521) for the 12 kids, who were chosen by Houston’s Child Protective Services department. All of the children have been taken out of their homes because of parental abuse. Johnson, who has been footing the bill for the annual shopping spree for years, said he has been particularly touched to see that the kids aren’t just thinking of themselves as they grab all the toys they can.
“All the kids that have been here every year have gotten gifts for their brothers and sisters or cousins or whoever,” he said. “It just shows what they go through that they think about others. It shows what type of kids they are.”
And this shows what type of man Andre Johnson is.
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