Did Chad Ochocinco Trade Himself To The Patriots In Madden?

By KC Downey in Featured, Now!, Patriots ⋅ April 14, 2011 at 12:16am ⋅ Post a comment

Chad Ochocinco (Photo by Jay Drowns/The Sporting News/ZUMA Press.)

Chad Ochocinco and Bill Belichick have long had a fondness for one another, and there have been whispers that the enigmatic Bengals wide receiver would welcome a trade to the Patriots. The Patriots could use a veteran deep threat that isn’t quite as crazy as Randy Moss, so it appears there could be a match.

Followers of both Chad Ochocinco (@ochocinco) and Brandon Meriweather (@BMeriweather31) on Twitter laid witness to a convo on Wednesday between the two about Madden, the popular NFL video game. Check it out:

Ochocinco (tweet link): “@BMeriweather31 did you know we are on the same team on Madden?”
Meriweather (tweet link): “@ochocinco no I didn’t know that.”
Meriweather (tweet link): “@ochocinco you traded yourself to the pats. Lol”
Ochocinco (tweet link): “@BMeriweather31 nah the video game did it by itself, I woke up one more and there I was on the Patriots online,must be a glitch or something”
Meriweather (tweet link): “@ochocinco maybe the game trying to tell u something.”
Ochocinco (tweet link): “@BMeriweather31 it’s just a game, reality will set in as soon as the lockouts over *damn*”
Meriweather (tweet link): “@ochocinco lol u right. Only time will tell”

Do you buy Ochocinco’s excuse? Do you think Madden randomly put him on the Patriots? We’re not talking Nintendo (though TechnoDome or John Elway’s Quarterback were pretty epic games in their day), we’re talking modern games that never have “glitches.”

I’d say that Ochocinco is dropping yet another hint about his desire to play in New England. He’s right though, nothing can happen until the lockout is over.

What do you think?