First off I believe I am owed some royalty checks from both T.O. and Ocho, since I was the first person who coined the phrase “TOcho”.
At the very least they need to have me as a weekly guest, don’t make me start a petition.
Now that we have that out of the way, I have been cool with T.O. and Ocho putting in work during the off season. The life of a NFL Player is short, so you have to prepare yourself for life after football.
The reality shows, Dancing with the Stars, Batman and Robin stuff I have no problem with because when they are on the field they both seem prepared and focused.
The question begs will having an “in season” gig interfere with on field performance. Why you ponder that here are the details:
The outspoken Cincinnati Bengals receivers, already with their own separate reality shows, are getting a weekly talk show, to be broadcast on the Versus cable network.
“The T.Ocho Show” will start Tuesday night as a segment on “The Daily Line,” the network’s nightly sports highlight, news and interview show, and then will branch out as a half-hour show on Oct. 12.
Along with a studio host, Owens and Ochocinco will discuss their views on the NFL, Twitter and highlights from their VH-1 Reality shows – “The T.O. Show” and “Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch.”
Just to be clear there are a lot of players who have radio shows or extended guest hosting duties during the year. A lot of players also appear on local TV shows.
So I won’t go as far as saying it is unusal for players to have TV/Radio gig during the season.
It is a bit unusual for it to be on a National Cable network, but T.O. and Ocho always do things a little bigger.
My position has been the same from the time the Bengals first showed interest in T.O., as long as they are winning I don’t think any of this stuff will be a problem.
What will be interesting is if the Bengals hit a rough spot and ESPN sends Ed Werder down to Cincy to dig up some “anonymous” quotes, how they will react.
It is one of the bigger storylines of the NFL season.
Once again though I hope my check is in the mail.