Most people thought Chad was crazy when he changed his name. I thought it was brilliant marketing on his part. In the end I would say the decision worked out for him.
I believe there are a good majority of people who don’t even know Chad’s real last name is Johnson.
He is way more famous as OchoCinco than he ever was as Johnson, but he is ready to go back to the original like Bobby Brown returning to New Edition.
Ochocinco, appearing on ESPN’s “NFL Live” on Tuesday, called the name change fun, but that he’s done all he can with the Ochocinco name.
He said that the change isn’t done yet, but it will be.
The Cincinnati Bengals wideout originally changed his legal surname from Johnson to Ochocinco before the 2008 season in order to wear his nickname on his jersey.
Johnson originally gave himself the Ocho moniker in 2006 as an allusion to his No. 85.
At this point Chad is branded, so it doesn’t matter in the long run, but I will keep calling him Ocho, it has a nice ring to it.