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Chad Johnson's ankle remedy: teammates' urine

Ben Goldschmidt
bgoldschmidt@enquirer.com

If you have a sprained ankle, don't worry. Former Bengals receiver Chad Johnson has a solution.

Bengals receiver Chad Johnson looks on as the final seconds tick away in a 27-10 loss to the St. Louis Rams in December of 2003.

Well, you saw the headline. And you read it correctly. It's urine.

"I collect warm urine from my teammates, heat it up, and put my ankle in it for 30 minutes," Johnson said on ESPN's "Mike & Mike."

Well, access to NFL players' urine isn't easy to come by, Chad. So while the rest of us resort to Advil, why don't you answer some questions for us?

  1. Is the remedy just warm urine in general, or does it need to come from an NFL player?
  2. If it must come from an NFL player, is there any reason your own urine wouldn't have sufficed?
  3. Who in that locker room agreed to this?
  4. If you collected warm urine from those players, why heat it up after the fact? Did you re-heat it? Did you use a communal microwave to do so?
  5. Who told you this would work in the first place? (Please tell me it was Marshawn Lynch, and masking the smell is the real reason for the Skittle-socks.)
  6. Did you even try it with warm water first?

(Hard-hitting questions like these are the reason I went to Journalism school... Mom.)