Erik Johnson Donates $36k to Wounded Warrior Project, all Thanks to Twitter

[meingram]

Not sure if anyone's seen this, but Erik Johnson sent out a tweet that he'd donate $1 for every retweet he got yesterday to the Wounded Warrior Project.

The initial tweet got over 36k retweets and he posted his donation receipt earlier today.

Real stand up guy.

 

[langway05]

What a class act by EJ.

I have comrades who will definitely benefit from this donation. :beer:

 

[roaddogg1718]

Yep, pretty awesome by Erik. I joined in with a retweet that got a few others from my friends. Go Avs... one day...

 

[enforcersonly]

Top man.

 

[Sensrookie]

He's earned my respect.

 

[canucksfreak19]

That is great. Good on him, beyond classy.

 

[Orvy]

Very nice of him, truly... I don't mean to be a debbie-downer in what I'm about to say... all of what I'm going to say aside, that was genuinely a nice thing to do on his part, kudos to Erik. ...but this kind of brings this whole CBA thing into perspective. Some people make that in a year's salary, still in this day.

 

[borcky90]

^^^ I don't know what your trying to say? Yes it's professional sports they make 6-7 figures. If anything this helps justify that these athletes can be amazing people and know how to spend the high salaries they are paid. That's the price of a low paying salary but it's also the price of a new car, and instead of buying toys he donated to one of the best charities in America. I'm currently writing a thesis paper on why athletes deserve every penny they are paid, I plan on using this in my paper. I'm glad I saw this.

 

[bonnev659]

that is pretty sweet

glad he can come out and help those folks who are part of the project