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Former NFL wide receiver Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson has made a series of surprising remarks about money in interviews over the last few weeks, including that he once lived at his former team’s stadium for nearly two years. In an interview with Fox Sports host Shannon Sharpe, Johnson claimed that he saved more than 80% of his career earnings by not buying fancy cars and buying fake jewelry, despite earning nearly $50 million from his playing days. “Fly private?” Johnson said during the interview. “I ain’t flying private. Spirit, put me on Spirit, exit row, window seat. That’s all I need....

...The Patriots announced that they had acquired Ochocinco for "undisclosed draft considerations," but sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter that the Bengals will receive two draft picks, a 2012 fifth-rounder and a 2013 sixth-rounder, to complete the trade. Ochocinco was scheduled to make $6.35 million for the Bengals this year. The Patriots wanted him to restructure his contract for salary-cap purposes, and he agreed to facilitate the trade. After approximately 15 minutes of chatting Friday, Brady -- who proclaimed himself healthy after offseason foot surgery -- began to walk through some plays with the rest of his offense, while...

Chad Johnson is making a comeback. Three years after changing his last name to Ochocinco, the man born Chad Javon Johnson will be going back to his given surname. "I've done enough with Ochocinco," the former Mr. Johnson told ESPN's Trey Wingo. Yes, like having the least productive stretch of his career since the name change became official. Ochocinco didn't elaborate on why he was making the change, but given that his return to Cincinnati is questionable, the logical explanation is that he wants a fresh start wherever he ends up. That means no silly name changes and probably no...

Professional football player Chad Ochocinco's cereal is being pulled from store shelves after it was discovered that a telephone number on the boxes is a sex line. The cereal, OchocincO's, had a typO. The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver tweeted an apology Thursday after news of the phone number, which should have been to a Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based charity, made headlines. "Awe man I'm bummed about the cereal number mixup on the cereal, trying to do good and got messed up, of all numbers why that one!!! Sorry." "That one" happened to have the wrong three-digit prefix, which connected to a...

Oh-oh, Ocho. The Bengals’ top receiver has yet another name. 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. 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 league has agreed to let him wear his new name...

Friday, August 29, 2008 Bengals wide receiver changes last name to Ocho Cinco Associated Press CINCINNATI -- Maybe receiver Chad Johnson can go by the name that his head coach hates. The Cincinnati Bengals receiver has legally changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., a switch that became official this week. Johnson, who lives in Miami, didn't return a message left on his cell phone Friday night.