!st I am not a Bengals or Chad fan..but have to say that I think this is a very classy move by him. And further..the NFLPA should not pay the fine..The Cincinnati front office should be the 1 paying the fine for him so they too honor a player of theirs just as Chad wants to. Mike Brown...you gonna step up?

They, as a team are wearing a sticker on their helmets, or a patch on their jerseys or something already, is this not enough? What more does wearing the jersey add? I don't get it, wear your helmet with the sticker like everyone else, follow the rules like everyone else, and move on.

I like the idea of his wearing #15 for this game as a tribute, but if it's against NFL rules, then a fine isn't going to stop anyone from doing this sort of thing. I understand fining someone for uniform issues like wearing the wrong socks, but if you really don't want people to wear a different number then they shouldn't be allowed to play if they aren't wearing their number. That being said, I think he should wear #15 this week and I don't think he should be fined.

If he goes through with this he should get suspended for a game.

Problem is, where do you draw the line? Former players, former coaches...wives? girlfriends? The NFL already approved #15 patches for CIN to wear the remainder of the season.

If the money can be donated to the family, ok. But if not, then Chad is indeed being foolish because the money for the fine would be better put towards the family.

eersandbeers wrote: You mean like hte last time he was fined he doubled it and donated it to charity?

Seems irrational hatred doesn't match the reality.

Therein lays the issue. If he was completely altruistic, he'd never commit the fineable act in the first place and give that full amount to charity.

He's literally buying attention.

gut wrote:

eersandbeers wrote: You mean like hte last time he was fined he doubled it and donated it to charity?

Seems irrational hatred doesn't match the reality.

Therein lays the issue. If he was completely altruistic, he'd never commit the fineable act in the first place and give that full amount to charity.

He's literally buying attention.

Do you know how much he donates to charity every year? So you appear to be making a statement with no actual evidence behind it.

He isn't doing anything for attention, but regardless of the motives, I fail to see how donating thousands to charity and buying things for your fans is a bad thing.

The very fact that everyone knows how charitable Chad Johnson is just goes to show how much attention he draws to it.

Wow... Seriously you knock a guy b/c he openly says he donates to charity? Get Real!

eersandbeers wrote:

gut wrote:

eersandbeers wrote: You mean like hte last time he was fined he doubled it and donated it to charity?

Seems irrational hatred doesn't match the reality.

Therein lays the issue. If he was completely altruistic, he'd never commit the fineable act in the first place and give that full amount to charity.

He's literally buying attention.

Do you know how much he donates to charity every year? So you appear to be making a statement with no actual evidence behind it.

He isn't doing anything for attention, but regardless of the motives, I fail to see how donating thousands to charity and buying things for your fans is a bad thing.

You keep bringing up the charity thing, we have already said that is a good thing.

He isn't doing anything for attention? Are we talking about the same Chad....JOHNSON?

It's never a bad thing to do things for charity, it does however take away from it a little bit when you rush home and tell everyone about it on your twitter, if what you say is accurate.

skank wrote:
You keep bringing up the charity thing, we have already said that is a good thing.

He isn't doing anything for attention? Are we talking about the same Chad....JOHNSON?

It's never a bad thing to do things for charity, it does however take away from it a little bit when you rush home and tell everyone about it on your twitter, if what you say is accurate.

I said he doesn't do the good deeds for charity. I don't think he does things on the football field for attention either. He does it to entertain the fans. He has said that is his main goal.

And he didn't run and tell everyone about his charitable things on Twitter. He asks fans to meet him places and then pays for it.

eersandbeers wrote:

skank wrote:
You keep bringing up the charity thing, we have already said that is a good thing.

He isn't doing anything for attention? Are we talking about the same Chad....JOHNSON?

It's never a bad thing to do things for charity, it does however take away from it a little bit when you rush home and tell everyone about it on your twitter, if what you say is accurate.

I said he doesn't do the good deeds for charity. I don't think he does things on the football field for attention either. He does it to entertain the fans. He has said that is his main goal.

And he didn't run and tell everyone about his charitable things on Twitter. [size=xx-large]He asks fans to meet him places and then pays for it.[/size]

This is weird in and of itself.

Goldenboy26 wrote:

skank wrote: Guy is an attention whore, if it was a guy who hasn't been an ass his whole career I could see it but Johnson honoring someone by wearing his #? Stupid. He could honor him by not doing stupid shit for the remainder of the season, but we all know that ain't gonna happen. A dumbass honoring a career criminal?

Guy with the username of Skank is calling someone else a whore. Interesting

lol now that's funny!

The NFL is a JOKE ..... Now they NFL says that even the NFLPA CANNOT pay Ocho's fine if he wore Henry's number

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4756880

I get the feeling that a lot of the people in this thread are the type that when an organization donates to charity say "yeah well they're only doing it for the publicity."

There's nothing wrong with gaining a benefit from doing something good. Actually, I thought that it was taught that if you do good you will benefit. Yet here many of you are acting like to do a good thing (donate to charity, buy someone a meal, movie tickets, etc) and gain a benefit (in Ochocinco's case it appears to be attention, in the corporate realm it's a feeling that the company isn't a giant stone institution but a group of people working) somehow negates the good deed entirely.

I guess he pussed out. But of course he did kneel in the end zone for an inordinate long time looking heavenward so every media outlet in the country could catch him "in mourning".