Last week, Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco said that he’ll post updates to Twitter during regular-season games.
The league pointed out in response that cell phones and wireless devices can’t be used on the sidelines; Commissioner Roger Goodell later said that a comprehensive Twitter policy is coming.
Regardless of the terms of the official NFL rules and regulation regarding Twitter (there’s a phrase I never could have envisioned writing a year ago), Ochocinco says that he’ll do what he wants.
“There’s a lot of things they don’t want me to do,” Ochocinco said, via the Dayton Daily News. “I do it anyway. They know that. I don’t know why they even fussing about it. . . . When I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it, regardless of what they say.”
Though the standard penalty for violating the rules regarding use of cell phones and wireless devices is a fine, the issue takes on a different feel when a player announces his intention to break the rules. If/when the league office sends him a letter warning him against defiance, and if/when Chad says “child please” and proceeds with his plan, he could be suspended.
Here’s the video of Chad’s new audio.
Thank God he’s not a Falcon!
Go ahead Chad Johnson, continue to be a moron.
Just give your money away dumb ass.
Don’t players intentionally violate the rules all the time? I remember Ryan Clark getting fined for honoring Sean Taylor. I remember Falcons players getting fined for supporting Vick. What I don’t remember were any suspensions. There were only fines.
I believe there are some players who break the uniform code every game (I think with their sock length).
So why does this have a different “feel” to it? It shouldn’t. It’s same as it always is.
“When I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it, regardless of what they say.”
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Didn’t he say he was going to give a car away as part of a contest only to give it to his girlfriend instead?
Didn’t he say he’d take people on a cruise only to back out on that?
Stop ‘reporting’ what this bafoonish fool says and maybe he’ll go away. He’s a worthless P.O.S. and that’s all there is to it.
Just him running his mouth, shows his disrespect to the NFL
Give ‘em two games off and let’em tweet on that.
I hope “The Och” bitch slaps Goodell with his Sprint Palm Treo.
Tweet on my brother. Tweet on.
I still say he will have a surrogate writer in the stands and communicate with sign language to him what to say.
If the NFL fines or suspends him for that, a major lawsuit will follow as the NFL will have to prove that Chad wrote the comments that happened to appear during a game.
Chad’s defense will be that someone hacked his account. Unless the NFL finds the co-conspirator and gets him/her to talk, Chad will win.
Personally, I’m really looking forward to Chad’s “how u liked my one catches for six yard” Tweets at halftime.
So chad cant twitter…..what would you rather have him do surrounded by the bungles? be like one of them?
Do Bengals fans even wonder why their team is a joke anymore?
Good. The NFL is making a mistake by not allowing players to “tweet” from the sidelines. The NFL has been trying hard to improve fan “access.” The most access we get is the sideline reporter asking the coach same questions before and after halftime.
There are plenty of TV time outs and other natural breaks during an NFL game. Players could easily tweet four or five times per half without being distracted.
The league could allow one player from each team to tweet during the game (similar to players being “mic’d up”). Fans would be able to fire up their computers and add an extra feature to their Sundays this fall.
I feel the NFL is being extremely short-sighted here. They should be jumping at this opportunity.
Roger Goodell is a jackass that seriously needs to be shown the door.
Did he also say on NFLN that he was “Done in Cincinatti”? I seem to remember a pretty darn resolute OchoMe-o saying he would never play in Cincinatti again before last season. Yeah you do what you say you’ll do, Chad.
Child, please? Ironic that such a child likes to use that phrase.
He’s an idiot. White noise with the sound up. Very much like a toy poodle accross the hall that won’t stop yapping. Nobody cares anymore, Chad. You were interesting (barely) when you’re numbers were decent, but now all you are is an aging athlete whose number of cries for attention is rising in proportion the days you are aging and becoming less productive on the field. You won’t let us forget about you now no matter how badly we wish you would go away.
He’s just “keeping it real.”
And maybe it’ll distract people from the number of passes he drops.
PS/ This system gets easily confused about your logged in status – every other day I try to reply and it says I’m not registered, even though it’s showing the reply form indicating that I am, and logged in. So I have to re-log in. Annoying.
Yet again, the thug mentality… “If I want to do something, I will do it regardless of the rules and laws. Why should I have to follow them? I want to do something so therefore it should be allowed.”
I believe true criminals have used this excuse before. It never seems to work, oddly enough…
Circus performer.
Average player trying to get extra visibility
What a genius this guy is! I have asked it before, how has he lived this long?
I wonder what his suspension will be if he disobeys a direct order from God—dell.
I get that he’s just trying to get any attention he can…..but seriously, he is such a ridiculously immature douche.
The only thing he could do that would be even mildly entertaining is catch on fire. Wake me when there’s a video of him doing that. And it better be at least 45 seconds long.
I’m going to be honest with you, this gets old hearing about it. I like his personality for the most part, but coming out and flat out saying you’re not going to follow the rules is ridiculous.
I’m sure he’ll find a loophole, such as have a fan/family member in the stands hold a cell phone and he tells them what to put, etc… He’s not that much of a macho man to defy goodell
Why is it that good people die of terrible diseases everyday and this lousy no good piece of crap continues to live…..I don’t get it.
Why is this clown still in the news? Do something relevant on the football field and you’ll get all the attention you want.
The solution is really simple. He gets a buddy to create a fake OchoCinco twitter account – perhaps called LocoCinco – and relays texts or info to his buddy to post. And then he tells the media of this genius scheme and giggles. I’ve got tons more ideas, Chad, if you want them.
Chad OchoStupido needs to grow the ‘F’ up.
I suppose this is giving Bengals fans some sort of entertainment since the team still sucks on the field.
I can’t wait to see Polamalu smack this whiny diva bitch this season.
He does not care if you hate his dumb ass… just don’t ignore him.
That would kill his little boy crying “Look at me!” routine.
Please someone knock this jag off out for the season in week one and be done with him.
Jeez! What a moron Chad is. Can somebody please find out if Kazemi had a sister that Chad might wanna date?!
Look folks, You are such a small group of fans that your comments on here including mine are so incredibly insignificant to the consensus of the NFL fan base. Chad is Chad. Everyone forgets that the reason that this can’t go on is that it will open the flood gates for teams to steal signals and plays. Although I think it would be an interesting way to have a new experience while enjoying the NFL by tweeting; I can’t see it happening.
Many on here seem to hate Chad cause you know deep down inside when your teams corners and safeties leave him one on one. The Ocho can’t be stopped!
The Bengals could have a winning season. The playoffs will be tough to make in this smash mouth AFC North Div. They will be fun to watch win or loose.
tweet on brother tweet on , so they can suspend you a%s, loser,, twitter s&cks lol
DC49er, he’s a thug because of what? What law has he ever broken? Or is it just because he’s black that he gets labeled a thug for saying he is going to tweet during a game. Watch out guys, the thugs are going to hurt us by tweeting during games now. And by thugs I mean black guys. You’re a grade A idiot.
Twit!
JustinG says:
July 16, 2009 6:40 PM
Roger Goodell is a jackass that seriously needs to be shown the door.
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“You are correct sir” Phil Hartman as Ed McMahon…
I think the problem with all this is that the teams should be the ones to say “no screwing around with this crap on the sidelines, watch the game, and do your job.” Chad was the best in the AFC for 3 years running, so calling him an average player is ignorant. He had a bad season last year because of injury and Fitzpatrick. If he and Carson are healhy, look for another 1200 yard season (which means 3 200+ yard games and a bunch of 30-50 yard games, inconsistent prick).
Once again Ocho Stinko proves he is the biggest nothing happening football player of our time.
he is the biggest joke in the nfl.
This is actually an interesting paradox. A defiant self-righteous player indicating he plans on breaking soon-to-be league rules just to create attention for himself.
On one hand – I saw suspend him for the season for willful subordination. If he was in a corporate world, he would be terminated on the spot.
On the other, I think superfan99 hit it right on the head… Goodell is so incredibly short sited on this opportunity that he may be biting his nose to spite his face. This could be a tremendous all-access opportunity to get as close to the action as possible with a relevant medium like the internet.
Unforunately, there is no middle ground here. OchoCinco needs to be suspended, and Goodell needs to take advantage of this opportunity. Unfortunately, only the former will most likely occur.
It’s a shame that amazing businesses are run by complete morons.
IF YOU’RE GOING TO DO, IT JUST DO IT DON’T ADVERTISE IDIOT!!!
Exactly who are the people that find this dickhead entertaining or funny? (Other than Mike Florio)
i am glade he isn’t a cardinal. i believe these so called athelets think that we owe them a living get rid of them and their bling. gave more power to the managers and coaches. if they defie the rules then hit them with a hefty fine and suspend or get rid of the loser ocho dumbo
the dog 48 of mesa az
Chad-tweet your ass into oblivion. Get it through your head nobody gives a s#&! about your big mouth and your desire to draw attention to yourself (not your team).
Publicly your teammates have to say they support you, but privately they hope a giant cruise ship falls out of the sky and lands on that homely, loud mouthed ass of yours!
Chad is a moron. He has no respect for authority, and has no grasp of the concept that playing in this league is a privilege. If he’s going to act like that, give him the perma-ban treatment. Send his stupid-ass to the UFL, then he can “tweet” during the game all day long
DCNiner, umm, well being the black person that I am and looking at the numerous comments on this site, to call Chad Johnson a thug because he is vowing to challenge a tweeting rule is quite asinine. No, I don’t think that being black has anything to do with being a thug, it’s just that any black person who does does anything remotely wrong, even if they get busted for a speeding ticket or smoking marijuana, is quickly labelled a thug. The fact that they dress a certain way will even earn them the label of a thug. In fact, I’m pretty sure that if you were to take a survey of this site, the majority of the people on this site would say that this league is filled with thugs just based on the way people dress, talk, and live their life. If you can’t admit to yourself that your labelling of him as a thug is somewhat overboard given the connotation of the word (what people generally believe it to mean, not what you think it means; it’s usually/99.999% associated with violent or criminal beings) then I don’t know what to say.
And as far as being an upstanding citizen goes, until he gets busted for something, I consider him an upstanding citizen. As for your evidence that he is a thug, rattle off the names of other athletes that you think are thugs along with their transgressions. Then compare their transgressions to Chad Johnson’s. Classless, is a more fitting description (even though you’re only going based on a handful of incidents and don’t know the guy), but to label him a thug is going overboard. And, given your description of a thug, every player/person who takes steroids, amphetamines, speeds, jaywalks, or breaks any rule is a thug. All he is doing right now is talking, and he hasn’t even broken the rule yet. Especially when you look at the evidence of him doing everything he can to avoid a fine during the season when he did his TD celebrations. So what makes you think he is going to break this rule in the season and not come up with some other way to avoid being fined (like having a plant on the sideline who tweets for him?). Because he said it 3 months before the season? If there’s anything we can say about 85 is that non-football wise, he talks a lot but rarely backs it up. Or do you believe that he could beat Michael Phelps in swimming any distance?
If I were a Bengal fan, I would not support this. The team seems to be working hard to put things back together this year, and I just don’t see how any entertainment value from his tweeting would be worth the potential problems it could create.
The majority of the time, all would probably be fine, like it was when the media jumped all over his celebration antics after scoring a touchdown.
But the media also likes to jump on other things too, like it did when he and Carson Palmer were jawing at each other.
Given that Chad is temperamental, I’d be worried about the things he’d tweet when he’s upset. It wouldn’t be stuff that could be taken back, and every bit of controversial text would be jumped on by the media and could easily turn into a whole undercurrent of distractions, which is exactly what the Bengals don’t need right now.
Kidekk
I’d say that you are tad overly sensitive on the subject. If Tupac can use the word in relation to black people, why can’t others? Its somewhat of a double standard there. Black culture has a tendency to do that, with other words that will remain unsaid…
The league IS littered with thugs. Plain and simple. “…based on the way people dress, talk, and live their life.” Well, hard to argue with that, isn’t it? If they a) dress, b) talk, and c) live their life that way, I’d say its a pretty safe bet they are that way. Your own words, mind…
The difference between Chad Johnson, Jeremy Shockey, ummm, others that slip my mind as its really late, and people like Mike Vick is that Mike got caught. Vick is a thug, I don’t think you can deny that. Hell, Bill Romanowski was never caught doing roids but he is a thug through and through, and a dirty player.
The original use of the word thug was used to represent violent Italian Americans in mobster families who where hired muscle, also known as enforcers, but you don’t hear them whining about it. What the connotation today means is quite different. Just like the word ghetto, actually. Ghetto used to be a term for Jewish confinement camps near slag storage from a foundry… That has about as much similarity to the modern form as a multivitamin has to a full course meal. Keep up with the times, my friend.
Its the mentality of a thug that is the imperative here. Why would a thug (of the mobster persuasion) go about hurting people? Because they feel they have the right to, regardless of the rules? Probably. Because they can? Most definitely. It is the same mind set. Consider Johnson a thug in attitude. Do you seriously think that Johnson would consider following all the rules if he was, say, not a pro football player and had to rely on his intelligence (of which there is a suspect amount)? Or would he have the same mentality and, say, hold up a convenience store, because he shouldn’t have to follow the rules? Would Jeremy Shockey, with his oh so stellar attitude make use of his charm to climb the corporate ladder? Or would he just be a dumb redneck in a pickup, tipping cows back on Oklahoma, because, you know, he just wanted to?
We don’t know, but its the attitude that dictates how we see these people off the field. Anyone can see that. Even Florio, with his humorous attempts at social commentary would agree…
DCniner, what you’re forgetting here is that Chad Johnson still lives and functions in society. He still has the chance to hold up liquor stores and all of that stuff. Anyone has the possibility of doing something bad if they are not in their current situation and his attitude reflects that of a self-centered individual, not a thug. And your example about the histories of thug and ghetto only prove my point, don’t discredit it. The words have taken on a different connotation and have come to affiliated solely with black people in our society (which has also been bolstered by black people “claiming” the words, I don’t even want to get started on that). I’m sure most Italians now don’t even know that thug was originally a word used to describe violent Italian Americans.
Moreover, your thoughts about his attitude are weak because we don’t know if he was like that before (which by all accounts he probably wasn’t because nobody paid attention to him before he was producing) or if it was the product of his success and attention, so to say that is how he always behaved holds no merit when you don’t know how he behaved during his life. That would be like saying cheaters have a thug mentality because the rules don’t apply to them yet their only indiscretion is stepping out on their significant other. See what I mean? You start labelling everyone a thug for possessing certain character traits and everyone will be considered a thug, even you for driving five miles over the speed limit.
And, yes, black people can get away with saying things that other people can’t say, which is unfair, but please don’t lump every black person in just beacuse Tupac says it. Who the hell is Tupac to be speaking for all of black people, let alone Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton? If you’re going to judge your perception of individuals based on the actions of a few people, namely a rapper, then I don’t know what to say to you.
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