Sunday, May 15, 2011

Chad Ochocinco Jack of ALL trades

I'm sure that everyone has heard about Chad and his attempt to pursue a career in professional soccer. He is a phenomenal athlete with extraordinary abilities that most people could only wish to be blessed with. Overall, he has had a good career in the NFL and still has some years left in him. While football is a violent sport, the owners and coaches don't really like to see their players going out and doing things that put them in harms way. This is even prevalent on college campuses across the country. An example is that here at Maryland the football team is no longer allowed have scooters.
With this said, you may understand somewhat how important the health and well being of professional athletes is to their employer. The reason being none other than money, but should the athletes still be able to take risk as they please. It seems that Chad is. This past Saturday he participated in a sport that i feel is much more dangerous than football and possibly one of the most dangerous in the world. He hopped on the back of Deja Blu the rodeo bull and tried to hang on for the full eight seconds. He only made it 1.5 seconds which is actually not bad for someone who doesn't have any prior experience. The event was set up because of a tweet that Chad posted earlier this month. He earned $10,000 just for making it out of the chute but if he could have stayed on for the whole eight seconds he would have earned a new truck and the right to name the bull after Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. Ty Murray, a former world champion rider and a PBR director, coached Ochocinco the last two days at the Gwinnett Arena trying to get him ready to actually ride the bull. "Murray compared the experience to a first-time skier attempting to navigate a run from the top of the French Alps."
When Chad was asked what the Bengals thought about he act he said that he was sure that they didn't like it and he could understand why but he really didn't care. He said that he has never done what the NFL said to do. When chad was asked about the risk that was involved with his act and how it could affect his longevity in a negative way this is what he had to say. "No, every down is a risk to my career," he said. "Every time I wake up in the morning there's a risk to life in general. You never know what's going to happen. One of the things about me is I'm extremely interesting, I'm unpredictable and I am willing to do anything."

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