Carson Palmer Won't Play for Bengals and Has $80 Million in the Bank

Carson Palmer says he would rather retire than return to the Cincinnati Bengals.

“I have $80 million in the bank,” the Cincinnati television station cited Palmer as saying in a report on its website. “I don’t have to play football for money. I’ll play it for the love of the game but that would have to be elsewhere.”

The Bengals may seek to trade Palmer rather than let him retire, a report said.

The 31-year-old Palmer has been a Bengal since being chosen by Cincinnati with the first overall pick in the 2003 National Football League draft.

Palmer is frustrated with the direction of the team and owner Mike Brown.  The Bengals went 4-12 last season.

Ochocinco Fined $25,000 for using Twitter During Game

Fining Bengals's WR Chad Ochocinco isn't going to stop him from doing what he wants to do.

According to NFL.com, No. 85 was fined $25,000 for 1) having an electronic device on the sideline and 2) posting to a social media site during the Bengals' preseason win over the Eagles last week ... making his experience from the game just a bit more painful that it already was.

League policy prohibits players from using sites such as Twitter and Facebook 90 minutes before kickoff up until the conclusion of postgame media sessions.

Ochocinco tweeted the following during the verboten times (kickoff was at 8:07 p.m.):

"Just talk with Kelly Washington , Desean Jackson, Geoff Pope, Hank Baskett and I caught a ball from Mike Vick, I love prw-game warm up" (6:50 p.m.)

"Man Im sick of getting hit like that , its the damn preseason (expletive)! 1day I'm gone jump up and start throwing hay makers" (9:53 p.m.)

The second tweet occurred shortly after Ochocinco was leveled while running a pass pattern in the middle of the field.

Ochocinco has more than 1 million followers on Twitter.