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It’s official. Chad Johnson is no more. It’s Chad Ocho Cinco now.
That’s the way his name appears now on the team’s website. He’ll have Ocho Cinco on the back of his jersey Sunday at Baltimore. And the league doesn’t intend to challenge the switch. Other athletes have changed their names – World B. Free, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Maurice Jones-Drew, Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar and Mark Super Duper. It may look like a publicity stunt -- it is a publicity stunt -- but the league doesn’t appear to have a legal leg to stand on.
At NFL.com, the receiver’s name still appears as “Chad Johnson,” but it should soon change there to Chad Ocho Cinco. "It's his legal surname," says league spokesman Greg Aiello.
And who would have thought, a month ago, that the Bengals offense would be playing their opener with no Johnsons on their active roster? They waived Rudi Johnson, and they placed starting fullback Jeremi Johnson on injured reserve with a knee injury. The team still has one Johnson -- linebacker Brandon Johnson.
The team’s announcement on the name change appears here.
—Ian Allan
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Posted by AARON KAUFMAN | Sep. 05 at 01:03 PM
He is embarrassing himself in two languages. If I'm not mistaken, 85 in Spanish would be "ochenta y cinco". He was my first pick last year and lead me to a 6th place finish. Less mouth, more production.