NFL News: Chad Ocho Cinco
...posted by Gary Grund...
Not Giants news, but there is some huge news coming across the wire in NFL land today.
According to Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com, Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has taken the first steps in the state of Florida toward legally changing his last name to Ocho Cinco.
If Johnson follows through on this, his actual, legal name will be Chad Ocho Cinco, and the NFL would then (we assume) allow him to put his new last name on the back of his jersey.
From a business standpoint, this might be Chad’s way of picking up some of the extra cash that he wants to make but that the team has said it won’t give him. The jersey would instantly become one of the NFL’s top sellers, and NFL players get a cut of all sales of their jerseys.
This is going beyond what I ever thought it would be.
