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Bengals receiver has yet another name (Chad Ochocinco)
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| May 14, 6:31 pm EDT
| JOE KAY
Posted on 05/15/2009 9:18:20 AM PDT by bamahead
Oh-oh, Ocho. The Bengals’ top receiver has yet another name.
The NFL had agreed to let the player formerly known as Chad Johnson wear his new name on the back of his jersey this season. There’s one catch for the receiver: It’s not exactly how he wanted it.
Instead of Ocho Cinco, he’ll be Ochocinco.
The receiver legally changed his name in Florida last August. He asked the league and the media to call him Chad Ocho Cinco, a two-word nickname he had adopted referring to his No. 85.
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.
The receiver said last year that he wanted his name to be “Ocho Cinco.” Neither he nor his agent returned phone messages Thursday to discuss the name being one word instead of two. He was still selling shirts and other gear under the “Ocho Cinco” name on his Web site.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: chadjohnson; idiot; moron; nfl; ochocinco
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Stupidity is often rewarded ironically.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:18:20 AM PDT
by
bamahead
To: scott says; Perdogg
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:18:50 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
To: bamahead
Time for the “Lemonjello” jokes...
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:22:10 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, Bowman later)
To: bamahead
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:22:19 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: al_c
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:22:55 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: bamahead
"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." BWWWWWHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Yesssssss!
Just too rich, too rich.
Now will NFL fans at stadiums Bengals visit be able to capitalize on this?
Or will they let a good crisis go to waste.
Waiting with baited breath. :o)
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:23:09 AM PDT
by
Landru
(Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
To: bamahead
Unfortunately the Bengals kept Chad Johnson and let Hushmanz... Houschmanzu... Houoshchmmannzzu... (leaving to look it up) Houshmandzadeh go to free agency. I was really hoping that Johnson would be traded to a team that either already had a player with 85 or (even better) had retired the 85 uniform. His antic were great fun when the Bengals were winning one season. They are a distraction when the Bengals are stinking up the city.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:24:20 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: bamahead
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:26:26 AM PDT
by
Mac from Cleveland
(How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
To: bamahead
In a related development, Paris Hilton today announced she has legally changed her name to “Paris Sesentaynueve”.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:27:05 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
To: bamahead
One more example of the NFL being the NO FUN LEAGUE. I swear they are going to shoot the Golden Goose like the NBA did. IMO
To: bamahead
I hope the Bengals trade him to team that already has a veteran using #85. Then Chad will have to change his name again.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:28:17 AM PDT
by
04-Bravo
To: bamahead
This is refreshing news, Chad O’moron.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:34:42 AM PDT
by
boomop1
To: bamahead
The Bengals have an ochocinco % chance of never making the playoffs again.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:36:29 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: bamahead; 4everontheRight; ABG(anybody but Gore); Abbeville Conservative; akorahil; albee; ...
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:37:28 AM PDT
by
scott says
(Barack ODRAMA--the politics of Fear and Loathing)
To: Mr. Mojo
Whatever hes called, I look forward to the Steelers kickin his ass all over the field like they have for a while now.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:38:26 AM PDT
by
Edizzl79
(you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
To: KarlInOhio
I was really hoping that Johnson would be traded to a team that either already had a player with 85 or (even better) had retired the 85 uniform. Self reply: Two teams have retired 85. Chuck Hughes from the Lions and Jack Youngblood from the Rams. Sorry, Chad, you're being sent to Detroit.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:39:12 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: KarlInOhio
Hushmanz... Houschmanzu... Houoshchmmannzzu..Gezundheit!
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
UH OH Chungo! It’s Danger Island time.
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posted on
05/15/2009 9:56:13 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: bamahead
If I played for last year’s Bengals I’d change my name too.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:02:00 AM PDT
by
agrace
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