"I Just Don’t Give a F*$% Anymore": Words Bungles Fans and Mgmt Must Love to Hear

ESPN.com today features a story on disgruntled/enigmatic/hilarious/divisive Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson. In teasing the piece, the front page title link reads: Is Bengals’ Johnson returning? ‘Of course I am.’ The quote was pulled from the following exchange as cited in the piece.

“Am I coming back? Of course I am,” Johnson said while standing in front of his Davie, Fla., home. He had been acting as the editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine’s second annual Revenge of the Jocks issue. He made the comments on May 23

As teasers go, it was OK. Heck, it got me to read the story. However, after running through the column I found myself much more intrigued by the following quotes, courtesy of the Ocho Cinco:

“It’s the reinvention of Ocho Cinco,” he says. “I’m dead serious. People need to take me as I am because I just don’t give a [expletive] anymore. That’s how I’d sum up my attitude for the next season.

Talk about a sound byte. Now, that would be a story teaser. Tell me it wouldn’t drive some click-throughs. Ocho Cinco’s Attitude? ‘Doesn’t Give a F Anymore.’ Yep. Now, that would be money. Just sit back and watch the traffic roll in.

On a related note, you gotta love such determination and commitment from one of your team’s superstars. Classic. Ahhhh, to be a Bungles fan.