85, Ochocinco, Fünfundachtzig, Quatre-vingt cinq, Pětaosmdesát: What Will His Name Be Next Year?

The life of 85. "Wait, what? Your name is....what? 8-5? Isn't that a number?" Don't even get me started on why exactly someone would name themselves a number. To be honest with you the name Chad Johnson was perfectly fine with me. Does he hate his parents something fierce or what? Why would someone diss their own parents choice, a choice that had stuck with him for 20-some years, his own name, and completely go against everything that they had planned for him for the rest of his life, and change his name to 8-5? Ochocinco in Spanish doesn't even mean 85 as a whole. Rather, it means 8---5. His name is pronounce in Spanish: Eight. Five. Choices like these really reflect the egotistical minds that male athletes have and show their true colors. All they want is attention and if they didn't get that, I don't think they would be the type of athletes that they are today.

A T.O. for TO

As productive as Terrell Owens may has been in the NFL, his negative attitude and narcissistic ways have run him out of almost every team he's played for. Not only has he played for 4 teams, 4 of which all have had controversies with him, he's old too. Owens was drafted in the 1996 draft (the same year that Kobe was drafted to the Lakers) by the San Francisco 49ers. The Niners noticed that their newly acquired wideout was very outgoing (almost outgoing) and very noticeable, even in his first year. The first time that I had really ever heard of Terrell Owens (I didn't watch too much football back in the day) was the infamous celebration that Owens had back in 1999 when he mimiced the "dirty bird," the Atlanta Falcons signature dance and finished it off by "slashing" the neck off.

OJ S(tupid)impson

OJ Simpson, as good as an athlete as he was, is probably the most brainless and half-witted athlete of his decade. He is the only athlete in his time that is capable of putting himself in the senseless situations that he always seems to find himself in. From the murder case of Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, to the Las Vegas robbery that he was charged with back in 2007, OJ Simpson has always forced an ultimatum upon himself. That ultimatum is the same that defines all of the sports athletes that will be talked about on this blog. That ultimatum can be defined in one word: ATTENTION.

That's all that needs to be said about OJ Simpson. From his stupidity (my opinion is clearly stated in the headline) to the ultimatum that he has forced upon himself, Simpson is not capable of keeping the spotlight off of himself and will do whatever it takes to have the attention of the gerneral public, no matter what he has to do.

Kobe Bryant - The Grandaddy of 'Em All

Male sports athletes and their egotistical minds have always been on the minds of their counterpart fans. Stars such as Terrell Owens and OJ Simpson come to mind when talking about these sorts of players. Their those kind of people who would rather be bashed in the national newspaper, rather than receiving no attention whatsoever. These kind of athletes really upset me and it's sad to see all the talent that they possess go to such waste, be it in their actions on the sporting field / court, or off.

While there are many of these types of players, especially in this day in age (fans didn't really see too much of them back in the 60's, 70's, or 80's), the one who really led the way, was Kobe Bryant. Why some might argue that Terrell Owens was the first to emerge as the leader in this role, fans have to remember that it was Bryant, who entered the NBA Draft straight out of high school, and Owens who spent four years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Both have been in the same spotlight at some point in their professional careers, however, both for different occurrences.

Bryant's 2003 sexual assault allegations, jump-started him out of the hearts of many of his fans. It was from that point on that he would be ridiculed by many and hated by even many of his fans. It was not only this incident, however, that earned him the spot as being the "Leader of the Egos," but also his cocky attitude and consistent "ball-hogging" while on the court that I refuse to give him any sort of liking or appreciation. And I could not agree more with the words of Daniel Tosh in his "Completely Serious" comedy skit...