Former Bengals safety Chris Crocker dabbled for years looking for the direction of his career since retiring from the NFL in 2013. Business. Broadcasting. Refereeing.
Then one day, the game-changing idea smacked him in the face. Thanks to Ellen Degeneres.
“I’m running on the treadmill, about go to breakfast, watching Ellen Degeneres,” Crocker said. “She had this fan in the audience Skyping her favorite celebrity. The fan was really enamored with that whole engagement. The celebrity wasn’t even in the room. I thought, why doesn’t this exist more often?”
From that moment a year-and-a-half ago the wheels started turning toward what he launched last week with FC Cincinnati as a test team for his app he believes can revolutionize the personalized sports merchandise business for the betterment of both player and fan.