I have a general rule, that I never want to be friends with athletes. I have a job to do, I am not a groupie and to be professional at all times, you have to keep a certain distance between you and the people you cover.
Chad Johnson is the exception to that rule. I’ve known Chad for almost 10 years now. When I first met him he was buying everyone breakfast who had just come from a Super Bowl party and was at an all-night diner in Miami in 2010.
He has had some bumps in the road, that we have covered, but at his core, he is a good guy.
Here is just another example of that.
He asked how everyone’s Friday was doing and a guy said he was being evicted next Friday. What did Chad do?
He paid the guy’s rent.
Flip the pages to check it out.