Ochocinco not a  bad guest after all

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco awalks off the field during a break at football practice in Cincinnati, Thursday, June 18, 2009.

Tom Uhlman/AP Photo Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco awalks off the field during a break at football practice in Cincinnati, Thursday, June 18, 2009.

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By Greg Billing, Staff Writer 1:44 AM Tuesday, June 23, 2009

As it turns out, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco will not be staying at quarterback Carson Palmer’s house leading up to training camp. At least that’s what Palmer’s wife hopes.

Hey, it could be worse. Here are a few other athletes who would not make good house guests:

Danica Patrick. The IndyCar series driver brings way too much drama to deal with, and there’s only going to be trouble when her GoDaddy.com friends show up unannounced. Might be fun for awhile ... until someone invites Milka Duno.

Sammy Sosa. The former Chicago Cub slugger’s ritual after coming home — that finger-kissing, heart-tapping salute — would get old after a couple days. And especially aggravating would be that ability to forget how to speak English whenever something went wrong. ... “Sammy, did you eat all the Cheerios again?” ... “No habla Ingles, señor Palmer.”

Barry Bonds. First you’ll probably have to help him move his big, personal lounge chair that dominated the San Francisco Giants’ clubhouse all over the house. Then the place smells of flaxseed oil. Worst of all, though, is he’s always drinking all the juice.

Brett Favre. The first problem would be the media circus. The man who refuses to retire is in the news more often than the Swine Flu/H1N1/Captain Trips illness. And you’d never know if the former Green Bay/New York Jets quarterback was coming or going with all the trips to Minnesota, New York, Tampa and Mississippi.

Suddenly Ochocinco doesn’t look so bad, does he?

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