How Chad Ochocinco Will Skirt the NFL Ban on In-Game Tweeting

Back in July, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco said he would ignore the National Football League’s ban on the use of Twitter during games. During his broadcast on UStream Wednesday night, he detailed how he would go about doing it.

The artist formerly known as Chad Johnson said he would launch a contest to select one of his followers each week and fly them to the Bengals game, and then establish hand signals so that the contest winner can update his Twitter account, as reported by Mashable.

Ochocinco’s UStream broadcast:

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