Chad Ocho Cinco one of a kind
May 17, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
What is it with the NFL? It is so careful about publicity and then plays minds games with the Ocho Cinco.
All Chad wanted to do was change his name to his number and go by Chad Ocho Cinco. The NFL objected on the grounds that they already had tons of jerseys with the name Johnson on them and the number 85. Thus the vaunted NFL marketing machine would be thwarted.
What's my name?
Finally with an official name change and a year to digest it all, the NFL relented and will now have jerseys with Ochocinco on them. Huh? Ochocinco and not Ocho Cinco?
The league has agreed to let him wear his new name this year, but it will be rendered as “Ochocinco” because that’s how he wrote it when he submitted his name-change form in Florida.
“It’s his legal name,” AFC information manager Corry Rush said Thursday.
They may not win a lot of games, but it is never dull in Bengal land.
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