Ocho Cinco

I read Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way by Chad Ochocinco (Johnson) and Jason Cole. It is a sort of half autobiography (I can tell he did not write most of it) about the life of of the tawdry football player that we've all come to know as Ocho Cinco. He uses most of the book to excoriate anything in the NFL that he doesn't wholly agree with. While he can come off as a bit invidious, his thoughts and insights can be truly salient. He talks about his controversial name change from Johnson to Ochocinco and how he hit a nadir during his childhood when he was growing up without parents in one of the roughest neighborhoods of Miami.