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Think back to your elementary school. Your at your big brown desk that kept your little notebooks like a secret compartment. The teacher asks the class to write about someone you admire or would want to meet. Remember those days? Well, this is my adult, sports-related attempt to relive those "free-write" moments that I enjoyed o so much.

"Please stand in front of the class and present."

Ahemmmm.

"My essay is called: My favorite NFL Player: Chad Ochocinco"

The class smirks and giggles.

My favorite player in the league right now , hands down, is Chad (or Esteban) Johnson (or Ochocinco). Yes, he is whiny. A potential distraction for a team? Sure. Pro-bowl reciever. You bet your last name he is.

But he does something alot of the NFL players do not: have fun. Alot of us say that these guys are getting paid millions to play a game. And I agree. But I've heard lethargic players talk about the game like we talk about being stuck in our cubicles. It's no longer the GAME they played, but rather, a job (that pays alot). Ochocinco still plays the game. The reason he's always complaining is because he's competetive and frustrated at the mediocre team he's on. He wants ot better them, doing his own way. Can he go about things much more professionally? I'm sure alot people would, but then it would be the same person we anxiously wait in aticipation of watching what kind of endzone celebration he's going to come up with.

Personally, I think Ochocinco has done more for the Hispanic audience in the NFL then Tony Gonzalez ever did. The man did a salsa dance in the endzone! (If anyone has a clip of that I'd be forever grateful because that was too funny!)

Now, some might say then I like Terrell Owens. I don't. You can tell his celebrations are out of pure arrogance. Ochocinco does it to get laughs out of people and sometime even help, which is not a bad type of personality.

He's just a funny guy enjoying his job with those around him.

"That is why he's my favorite player. The end."