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Title: Meet 'Ocho Cinco': NFL Player Changes Name to His Number
Post by: bijou on September 06, 2008, 04:52:43 PM

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CINCINNATI  —  Call him Ocho Cinco on the field, too.

The National Football League decided on Thursday to recognize receiver Chad Johnson's legal name change to Chad Ocho Cinco. The new name will be on the back of his Cincinnati Bengals uniform for the season opener in Baltimore on Sunday.

The receiver had his name changed in his home state of Florida last week. It's a reference to his uniform number — Ocho Cinco means "eight five" in Spanish. When the NFL celebrated Hispanic Heritage month in 2006, he wore it on the back of his uniform for pregame warmups, but had to remove it for the game because of NFL rules — it wasn't his real name.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,418003,00.html

Title: Re: Meet 'Ocho Cinco': NFL Player Changes Name to His Number
Post by: jendf on September 06, 2008, 06:59:22 PM

What a dope.

Title: Re: Meet 'Ocho Cinco': NFL Player Changes Name to His Number
Post by: Atomic Lib Smasher on September 06, 2008, 07:09:26 PM

That guy is really full of himself.