Ocho Cinco Will Wear "Ochocinco" Instead: Is the League Out to Get Chad?

Chad Ochocinco will get his desired wish of his new legal name on the back of his jersey. However, it won't be the way he actually wanted it.

The NFL announced Thursday that the Bengals wide receiver will be allowed to wear his new name on the back of his jersey this season, but it will read "Ochocinco" instead of Ocho Cinco. Since he wrote Ochocinco on his name-change form, the league claims he must wear his jersey that way since it's his real name.

Once again, Ocho Cinco appears to be a popular topic in the media. He will most likely voice his opinion within the next couple of days about how he is unhappy with the way his new jersey name looks. Does he have the right to speak up?

It's hard not to assume the league did this to Ochocinco on purpose. Last season, the league was against calling him by his new name because of their large inventory of Johnson jerseys that Reebok already printed for the 2008 season. If he wanted to go by his new name, he would have to pay around $4 million for the jerseys that had already been printed.

Ever since Chad legally changed his name, he has always spelled it as Ocho Cinco. The media has always spelled is as Ocho Cinco. The league knew that he always spelled it Ocho Cinco. So how can we not assume they are making him spell it as Ochocinco to get under his skin?

No matter what happens with this situation, the league will always use the defense that players' real names appear on jerseys and he made his legal name Ochocinco on the name-change form.

Then again, the league was aware of how he liked to spell his new name. If they knew this was going to be an issue, why did they wait until now to bring up the issue? Is it because they had no reason to deny Ochocinco the rights to wear his new last name?

With everything that happened last year with the name-change debate, it's hard to not to imagine the league did this to make Ochocinco upset