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• milehighsalute said September 10, 2008

  Wow - that is going to hurt his touchdown dance prop budget

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• athletics68 said September 10, 2008

  No one was going to buy the C. Johnson jerseys anyway at this point. That's why they're asking Ocho Cinco to cough up the money. They're hoping he'll buy them, and he's so dumb he might just. Otherwise they're out $4 mil

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  • gobluejosh replied September 10, 2008

    Yeah but they might actually sell the Ocho Cinco jersey if it gets made - just for the rediculousness of this whole thing from a guy who may no longer be even a top 10 NFL WR
• rankible said September 10, 2008

  Thats an expensive jersey!

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• Ronniewoowoo said September 10, 2008

  If he was a baller, he would write the check and donate all the jerseys to charity. Would save him big on taxes!

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• Lysol4Real said September 10, 2008

  I wonder if this is because of his timing. I never heard about any other athletes doing this after a name or number change, but they usually announce it in the offseason proper, before the official uniform outfitter or whatever has a chance to make 100K jerseys of a player that doesn't exist anymore.
  
  Did Reebok instinctively know not to make 100K of Favre's Packer jersey? Did the team have to eat that loss when they traded the player on their team that Reebok cares most about?
  
  This entire thing seems rather illegal, but who knows what kind of crazy stuff is put in the contracts these guys sign.

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  • Ronniewoowoo replied September 10, 2008

    Brilliant call. I wonder how much Reebok lost on both Jason Taylor and #4....interesting
• WaltonsWisdom said September 10, 2008

  I think this is ridiculous. There's no question in my mind Reebok will sell wayyyy more "ocho cinco" jerseys than they would sell "johnson" jerseys. They will probably come out in the positive even if Chad doesn't fork up the $4M.

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• IVSPORT said September 10, 2008

  Chad Johnson should tell Reebok to go to hell. It's his legal name and if he wants to play with it on, then so be it. He should not be responsible for Reebok overestimating jesey sales and trying to cover it up.

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  • Ronniewoowoo replied September 10, 2008

    great call. Next thing you know, they will block trades too!
• pacmanplayers said September 10, 2008

  I agree... why would you reproduce that many jersey's on a hope that they sell ? Reebok should jack up the jersey price for OCHO CINCO and give for free the Johnson jersey .. or Auction off the Johnson Jersey and have Chad sign them kind of a happy medium

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  • Ronniewoowoo replied September 11, 2008

    chad couldn't sign his name 100k times. He would hurt his arm
• DaBirds said September 11, 2008

  Nike should buy the jerseys and then have exclusive rights to selling Ocho Cinco jerseys... that would stick it to Reebok for sure!

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  • Ronniewoowoo replied September 11, 2008

    guessing that is not exactly street leagal
• cowboys74 said September 11, 2008

  He should change it again to " I Q ZERO " . Peace

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• TASMANIAN said September 11, 2008

  ALL THAT MONEY FOR A NAME CHANGE AND PEOPLE STARVING TO DEATH SHAME ON YOU !!!

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• NFLisTerrible said September 14, 2008

  Nike and Adidas can't buy-out the jerseys and print, because Reebok has exclusive rights to selling the players uniforms

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