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The NFL had agreed to let the player formerly known as Chad Johnson wear his new name on the back of his jersey this season. There’s one catch for the receiver: It’s not exactly how he wanted it. Instead of Ocho Cinco, he’ll be Ochocinco.
Reported by the Associated Press
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The receiver legally changed his name in Florida last August. He asked the league and the media to call him Chad Ocho Cinco, a two-word nickname he had adopted referring to his No. 85. The Bengals complied, but the NFL balked due to a large stock of jerseys with the name Johnson. The mercurial WR elected to play under his old name rather than pay for the stockpile of jerseys. ... The league has agreed to let him wear his new name this year, but it will be rendered as “Ochocinco” because that’s how he wrote it when he submitted his name-change form in Florida. “It’s his legal name,” AFC information manager Corry Rush said Thursday.
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