Hugging Harold Reynolds: Ocho Cinco

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Monday, November 1, 2010

Ocho Vies for Sexiest Man in Social Media

While it's easy to poke fun at a professional football player who has to compete and defend his sexiness against a fictional pitchman and an orange DJ, I almost feel worse for legitimate actors who have to vie against someone who is so attention starved that he voluntarily re-named himself after a fictitious version of the number "85."

Oh and then there's Vin Diesel.

And, of course, it's all fun and games until TO gets wind of this and throws a temper tantrum.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 19

This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

Download Episode 19 here, or subscribe via iTunes.

Today marks the triumphant return of the Ballsy Blog of the Week, which fittingly goes to the quartet of Chad Ochocinco, Chris Cooley, Ray Rice and Darnell Docket for their unprecedented news team coverage along with Jake & Amir during Super Bowl week. we highlight it for the fact that not only is the group (collectively known as the OCNN News Team) downright hilarious, but the project's sponsor - Motoblur - does an amazing job integrating their product into the viral videos in a manner that compliments, rather than takes away, from the videos' entertainment value.

I have seen the future. Take note, advertisers.

Staying in Miami, we bring on on-location guest Joe Fortenbaugh of National Football Post to talk Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, trade rumors, McNabb/Favre speculation and how the site and its unique staff have quickly become an inside source for pro football news, analysis and insight.

Prior to joining on with NFP full-time and focusing on fantasy football posts, Joe worked as an NFL agent at JB Sports for three years while earning his degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Blogs With Balls Radio Premiers on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network

Welcome to the premier of Blogs With Balls Radio on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network.

From JSF:

Over the past few weeks on our regular installment of the "JoeSportsFan Show", we teased the fact that big news was coming down the podcasting pipeline here on JoeSportsFan.com. Yesterday, you saw the initiation of this news as our own Patrick Imig and Jason Major debuted their first weekly show entitled, "The Steel Cage".

Today, we're happy to announce a partnership of sorts with respected cohorts that will deliver complementary content to our own internal lineup. Without further ado, we're pleased to unveil the "JoeSportsFan Radio Network".

We couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of the team.

Download Episode 1 Here.

Today we kick off with a show intro to let you know where we plan to take the show, and highlight what’s going on with the planning of Blogs With Balls 2.0 at the Blog World & New Media Expo.

We point out our first Ballsy Blog of the Week, IanPoulter.com.

Poulter’s site is no small reflection of the confidence he has in his game and his style.

We also have our first guest of the show, NCAA All-American from West Virginia, former 2nd round draft pick of the Tennessee Titans, former Cincinnati Bengals captain, and Founder & Co-CEO of JockBiz.com, John Thornton (@JohnThornton).

In his post-playing career, John blogs at AllProBlogger.com and offers full-service consulting for players in everything from nutrition and dieting to social media development at Jock Biz.

We are also honored to have John join Mike Germano (President, Carrot Creative), Pete Vlastelica (CEO, Yardbarker.com), Ron Wechsler (VP Series Production and Development, ESPN) on the “Connecting Directly” Panel at BwB2, where the group will look at what athletes being able to speak directly to their fanbase via blogs & Twitter means to sports media, bloggers, and fans.

John offers a preview of the discussion on today’s show.

Regarding how the media, namely those covering the Bengals, see their roles changing as guys like Chad Ochocinco circumvent the traditional athletes and take their message directly to fans:

“The media people that we talked to they were all sort of afraid for their jobs because they feel like they’re going to get cut out. Chad was actually on that panel and he said he wants to cut the middle man out because he’s been portrayed in a certain way…

I think the role of the media initially was to cover the game. Whether you’re supposed to tell what happened, but I think over time the media got so much power and they start to give their own opinions, their personal opinions. Now…the media has to reinvent themselves. You got to use social media…

You can’t be afraid of the athletes Tweeting or using their blogs or Facebook, you know whatever. You just gotta use it. You got to find a way to reinvent yourselves because it’s not just the newspapers anymore. Everybody’s online. Everybody’s on their cell phones. You just got to use that and incorporate it into your own story.”

Regarding how players interact, specifically those John consults with or is familiar with:

“We really try to let the guys know hey it’s cool to have fun, it’s cool to put yourself out there, but - you know - it’s public…

But then there’s guys that don’t care. There’s guys that I played with that I follow on Twitter that I’m like, ‘Why are you saying that? Why are you talking like that?’ But its really, its how they are...

This is your public image…”

Finally, we put John on the spot for a game we dubbed “Skyped Up” where we see just how familiar he is with the sports personalities his clients potentially have to interact with.

Look for more great things to come both with our show (which will be available each Wednesday), as well as the other personalities that will be announced on the JSF Radio Network in days and weeks to come.

This week's links of interest.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Wooooooo! Chad Ochocinco Resurects the 4 Horsemen

While it may be the worst version of the famed wrestling faction ever assembled (this side of Romeo Paul Roma and Mongo McMichael), props to #85 for taking the initiative to reform the classic heel stable.

The trio become the first 3 black Horsemen ever. Unconfirmed sources indicate that the members will be initiated in by taking Arn Anderson gordbusters for a 4 minute period.

Carson Palmer was slated to round out the group, but allegedly declined in order to form a tag team with TJ Houshmandzadeh, infuriating Ochocinco.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Radioactivity Gets a New Name

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In a decision sending shockwaves throughout the scientific community, the radioactive element Astatine (pronounced ass-ta-teen), atomic number 85, has changed its name to Chad Johnson. Widely known for its inherent elemental instability, it was rumored Chad Johnson made the move as part of a campaign to embarrass fellow non-metals after failing to get itself traded. The element had been openly requesting to be released from the halogens in hopes of being picked up by a more "badass" group. The noble gases had shown minor interest, and considering the name "Chad Johnson" spills over into Radon's box, speculation continues to run rampant as to a future move. When reached in person for comment on why allow Chad Johnson to take up so much space on the periodic table, Radon was of few words. "C'mon dude. Why should I worry about stuff like that? Have you seen my Wikipedia page? Shit's like a Dicken's novel. By the way, I just gave you cancer."

The element formerly known as Astatine had been skipping its natural ionic bonding with metals and sodium as a means of demonstrating its seriousness. Earlier this year Chad Johnson expressed its belief that it was being blamed for the nonmetals lackluster profile. "I'm not allowed to say. I get the blame; the so-called best player, I'm the problem," it said. "Someone in-house is spreading this. Maybe they want me to quiet down [and] stop being me. That is not going to happen. I can't function that way. I tried it. It sucked. There was no excitement."

Widely considered to be the influence behind the Astatine-to-Johnson move, radioactive NFL receiver Ocho Cinco gave his perspective on the atomic namechange, "What was that about teen ass? Huh? Oh. Asta-what? Dude, I'm down with ass ta teen, ass ta mouth, pretty much ass ta anything. Let's get weird."

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Ocho Cinco is no Terry Hogan

I know we might be a little late to this party but it is worth mentioning that Cincinatti Bengals wideout Chad Johnson has legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco. For those who missed Spanish numbers day in grammar school it stands for 85, his jersey number. It has been a tumultous off-season for Chad before this as he was having conflicts with team brass over his contract and also postponed a much needed ankle surgery. Personally I don't understand the name change. Unless you were given an awful name as a child, why not just keep it as it is. Two men who are of course absolved in my eyes are Terry Bollea aka Hulk Hogan who eventually went to Terry Hogan, and the Ultimate Warrior aka Jim Hellwig who went to Jim Warrior. For reasons God only knows - his amazing clip from youtube where Jim Warrior addresses a crowd on c-span is no longer available. In honor of bringing up these two legends can we get a little flash back to 1990, Toronto Skydome. You know where this is going... Wrestlemania Six. Enjoy.

My final thoughts on this is it would be so interesting to see Chad Johnson traded to a place where the number 85 is retired, such as the Detroit Lions - props to Chuck Hughes, or the St. Louis Rams - hello Jack Youngblood.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Ocho Cinco hates him some Chris Henry

Bengals cut Henry, say they'll no longer tolerate his conduct

The Bengals could only take so much of Henry and his shenanigans. Getting cut from the Bengals for bad conduct is like being booted out of the parish for being the priest that touched the MOST kids.

To make this even more ironic for the staff of HHR, Ren is away and sent a link to me yesterday about Henry being trouble in Kentucky last week for driving with expired license plates. I read the article and thought to myself 'how could a guy about an inch away from getting banned from the league let something so foolish happen, especially with the bullseye on his head the size of Drew Brees' birthmole.'

Then today....WHAMMY! Punching 18-year-olds and throwing beer bottles like it's his first off campus party.

This is also means Ocho Cinco ain't going No-O Where-O. The Bengals lose two top WR in a season? Isn't going to happen.

Unless Cinco starts punching people. Other than Marvin Lewis.