{"id":388481,"date":"2026-09-02T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:56:09","slug":"bengals-legend-chad-johnson-leads-miami-dade-gas-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388481\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals legend Chad Johnson leads Miami-Dade gas giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Cincinnati Bengals legend and South Florida native Chad Johnson led a gas giveaway in his hometown on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The giveaway, featuring the Miami Beach Senior High School graduate and sponsored by sports betting site DraftKings, took place at the Sunoco at 15290 NW Seventh Ave. in northwest Miami-Dade\u2019s Biscayne Gardens area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">About 3,500 gallons of gas were made available to local drivers. One of them, Anthony Celestino, said it usually costs him about $100 to fill his tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said the 45-minute wait was \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCome get your 100 bucks,\u201d Celestino said. \u201cIt\u2019s free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson, known during a portion of his playing days as Chad Ochocinco for his jersey number of 85, spoke to Local 10 News reporter Jolena Esperto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former wide receiver said he\u2019d like to make a television career at Local 10 his second act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI can actually start tomorrow,\u201d he said, later adding, \u201cI assume I\u2019m pretty OK in front of the camera. I tend to be shy at times, but I\u2019m a hard worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The giveaway was set to stretch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Cincinnati Bengals legend and South Florida native Chad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-388481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}