After signing a four-year, $4.11 million contract in July to play linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, Thomasville native Akeem Davis-Gaither is able to purchase as many coats as he wants, heck, pretty much anything he wants.
But the former Thomasville High School Bulldog football player didn't always have this kind of financial freedom. He remembers a time as a child in the Chair City when his then young parents did not have the ability to purchase winter coats and other needed items for him or his siblings, said Amanda Miller, Davis-Gaither's long-time girlfriend with whom he has a 2 ½-year-old daughter.