Chad Ocho Cinco – the Cincinnati Bengals’ diva wide receiver – has landed a Bachelor-esque reality show on VH1.

OchoCinco will star in what is tentatively being called The Tournament and will pick one lady out of 85 looking for his love and affection.  The show will span 10 episodes and begin in July 2010, which is just two months after he wraps his time on Dancing with the Stars.

How the show is going to work, via the press release…

The Tournament will start with Ocho Cinco finding his “first 85″ by traveling all over the country meeting women that may be interested in dating him.  Then, during the first episode, he will narrow the playing field down to the sweet sixteen – four women from each of the four regions of the country – Northern, Western, Southern and Central Divisions. The sixteen chosen women will be invited to join Ocho Cinco for the rest of the tournament-style dating competition.

Once the competition begins, Ocho Cinco will follow a tournament bracket where each of the ladies will have an opportunity to spend quality time with him while also facing off against one another in double-dates.  The winner of each dating face-off will receive a game ball from Ocho Cinco and move on to the next round of the tournament, while the loser goes home.  Ultimately the sweet sixteen will be narrowed down to eight and then the final four.  In the end, the championship date between the two remaining women will result in Ocho Cinco awarding his chosen love the coveted Championship Ring. Hopefully, she turns out to be his greatest catch this season!

The ironic thing about this show is that Ocho Cinco has four kids by three different mothers.

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