Ochocinco, the Media Mogul?

By now, football fans everywhere are familiar with the anticipation and the hype during the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. With that said, it has been very easy to become sick of the spectacle before the actual game. With the NFL Network, non-stop coverage and media day, it is almost impossible to escape (I have heard way too much information on Dwight Freeney's foot).

But now there is one man who has changed all of that. His name is Chad Ochocinco.

Ochocinco has transformed from a loud distraction to the most entertaining player in the National Football League on and especially off the field. He has taken touchdown celebrations to a new level. He has taken trash talk to new heights, and he did that in a humorous fashion. Ochocinco made twitter incredibly popular among NFL players and fans (He has 734,171 followers). He even uses U-stream to talk to and entertain his followers.

The pro-bowl receiver has single-handedly provided football fans with some much-needed off-the-field entertainment (I think fans have had enough of NFL stories involving crime and suspensions). His philosophy can be summed up in one word: fun. His new goal: do ESPN's job better than ESPN.

Ochocinco is doing just that, now that he has created his own news network called OCNN. Nobody could have expected that the best part of media this day would involved a player who isn't playing in the Super Bowl.

Throughout this season, Ochocinco has made some big changes, becoming an off-the-field icon. Just look how far he has come.

All you need to read is the first paragraph of yesterday Huffington Post piece article titled NFL Lockout Extremely Likely: Union Leader DeMaurice Smith

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The question to DeMaurice Smith was simple, coming from Cincinnati receiver Chad Ochocinco, asking how serious he viewed the possibility of football not being played in 2011.

Ochocinco is having so much fun doing OCNN, he even got an opportunity to ask DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, the most important question regarding the NFL (besides the Super Bowl); a potential lockout in the future.

Ochocinco was the reporter who asked Smith about the possibilities of a lockout in 2011. OCNN! No. 85 is becoming an entertainment phenomenon. He even has other players reporting for OCNN -Redskins tight end Chris Cooley and Ravens running back Ray Rice have been doing a great job for the network. Just follow them on twitter.

I just can't get enough of this. Keep up the good work Ocho. You have made the two weeks before the Super Bowl more entertaining than ever before. - Michael Klopman

Michael, a Penn State Graduate writes for XtraPointFootball.com, is a contributor to the Bleacher Report and works on the sports page at the Huffington Post.

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