
Sadly, the jersey you see here was only worn for the short period of time before the Bengals embarrassed themselves on Sunday. Even though Chad Johnson legally changed his last name to Ocho Cinco, the NFL and Reebok united to smother any fun from a player changing his name to Spanish numbers.
“While the NFL has recognized the legal name change of Chad Johnson to Chad Ocho Cinco, the league informed the Bengals today that certain issues remain to be resolved before Ocho Cinco will be permitted to wear his new surname on his jersey,” the league said in a statement. [..]
Contacted Sunday by The Associated Press, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said, “He has a financial obligation to Reebok, which produces the jerseys available to fans. That has to be resolved before the on-field jersey can be changed.” [...]
“He’s legally changed his name, so we’re willing to recognize that,” [commissioner Roger] Goodell said. “There’s what I call a more administrative issue that has to be dealt with. There’s a large inventory of jerseys that are out there with 85 Johnson. Any player that changes a number or changes his name has to address that so that our licensing is not stuck with a large inventory.”
Put more succinctly, the NFL wants to sell more “Johnson” jerseys before it starts making “Ocho Cinco” jerseys. Added Goodell, “Ja, ze NFL’s bottom line ist more important zan your pitiful American laws. Now buy zome merchandise!! SCHNELL!!!”


Roger Goddell is racist!
i’m pretty sure furher goddell didn’t say shit about all the favre packers jerseys. do they stop making a player’s jersey when he fake retires?
You know what esle is annoying? That Chad Johnson Ocho Gayo fella
And spelling mistakes.
What Goodell doesn’t know is that Ocho Cinco has tunnels dug all through Paul Brown Stadium.
more whitey keeping the black man down… or some shit like that right?
I wonder what the commish’s excuse will be when the next name change is to Chad F. U. Goddell.
No joke at all here, but Carson Palmer is fucking terrible. Maybe Chad was on to something by demanding a trade in the offseason. Either that or he is just an irrational black dude.
Who gets to tell the former Chad that “Ocho Cinco” means “Eight Five”, not “Eighty Five”?
Pretty much everybody in America has already beaten you to that one, Carson. But maybe you should hit ‘em up just in case.
Ocho Cinco should probably check with his El Agente next time before he changes his name. Besides the NFL, his next biggest paycheck comes from Reebok, and he just cost them money. This is between him and Reebok, the NFL is just thrown in the middle.