Good Morning Cincy fans

Cincinnati fans can rejoice! They have a franchise savior headed their direction.

(Okay, maybe you guys should just keep drinking. Alot. Because if this happens, you'll want to blackout next season)

Chad Ochocinco is personally vouching for Terrell Owens to joining the Bengals, which seems like something of a paradox for me. Ochocinco is like Terrell Owens without all the baggage. He likes to show off, have a lot of fun while playing the game and generally making a spectical. However, unlike Owens, he doesn't drag the team down with his "antics."

Now you bring in the beast to Cincy, you'll have two diva wide receivers and one guaranteed meltdown on your hands. If this happens we need to have a reality tv crew follow the team around the entire year because we're going to see more squabbles and arguements than Jersey Shore - and that's saying a lot.

(For the record, I'm not a Bengals fan. It was a long night and apparently I had spilled gasoline on my shirt and a friend of mine let me borrow his Cincy jersey so I didn't smell like gas at the party. This story probably needs more explanation but I'm not going to give it.)

Ocho Cinco's birthday truck

Say what you will about Ocho Cinco... he's pretty damn entertaining. So I'm watching the New York Jets - Cincinnati Bengals playoff game and they show this huge truck pulling into the stadium and guess who steps out? One Chad Ocho Cinco.

This is Chad's truck, a birthday gift to himself. Not sure if that thing is street legal, but whatev, he probably could just drive over a cop car if they bothered him.

My Ford Focus suddenly seems very wimpy.

What's the deal with Chad Ocho Cinco?

The media does not like Chad Ocho Cinco, when actually they should.

There are very good players that keep their mouths shut. They keep their nose to the grindstone. They let their play speak for itself.

That's great but that doesn't put people in the seats if the team isn't winning. What media types, ex high school athletes who comment on sports from their recliner and bitter people don't realize is that professional sports is theater. It's a production. It's a show. Sure it's a game with an outcome that isn't decided beforehand but we basically associate roles with players and follow storylines as if it's a bad soap opera.

QB controversy? Coach getting fired? Team trying to break a curse? Sports lives off of characters and stories. There isn't a bigger cartoon character than Chad Ocho Cinco, who constantly pulling off stunts during games that make people grumble, yet they still watch.

When Cinco tried to "pay off the refs" during last week's game, I bursted out in laughter. Great stuff. He was obviously having fun with a game. Heaven forbid a NFL player have fun.

If you've ever head Chad in an interview, you can tell he's doing this for show. But if you were to look into the mind of a professional athlete you would see that this sort of "arrogant confidence" is needed when you play at the highest level of the sport. He's not a headcase like Terrel Owens who has some serious issues he needs to deal with, Cinco is an athlete that does all this to keep an edge. And with all his antics, there's never been something that truly disrupts the team like the stuff TO does.

You watch Chad Ocho Cinco right? He's one of the best athletes in the NFL right? The Bengals are awesome right now right? I don't see the problem. Nothing wrong with a little bit of theater.

Chad Ocho Cinco

Every blogger everywhere is filling their pages full of talk about Chad Ocho Cinco. Yeah, the wide receiver formally known as Chad Johnson.

Well, in honor of Chad Ocho Cinco, we here at Just South of North think the man is a genius. And as such have decided to change our names.

Despite our best attempts, we were unable to top "Eight Five." And decided to just go eat some food in Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington.

Anyway, leave some comments on name suggestions. Who knows, we might just listen to one. (But probably not)

Oh, and by the way, Thunder is official. The Oklahoma City Thunder. As I said before. Thunder is basically an atmospheric fart. In other words, what Clay Bennett did in the face of Seattle. So the name is perfect.