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August 11, 2005
How to Make Your Football Season a Living Hell
Well well well. Terrell Owens has gone from being the de facto savior of Philadelphia football to catalyzing what may be one of the most nightmarish off-seasons in recent memory. When he dumped his old agent and married Drew Rosenhaus, fine whatever it's all business; contract dispute, okay, it is professional sports afterall and TO's only got a few full-speed years left in him, might as well capitalize on those while he can. But now apparently TO has shifted into turbo-douchebag mode, and got his ass kicked out of training camp yesterday. Supposedly Owens earned his "week of vacation" by skipping out on a mandatory autograph session during camp and then either 1)brushing past head coach Andy Reid when Reid was asking him to attend the session, or 2)directing some choice expletives at Reid. Either way, it's some petulant shit. TO has said in the past that his 'deal' with the Eagles is that he wants to be respected as one of the premier receivers in the league. Perhaps the man is, physically speaking, one of the best and most skilled- however, it's become pretty obvious during his hard tantrums with the 49ers and now with the Eagles (and even in between, with that trade mess via Baltimore) that he is far from 'premier'. TO and his Drew have said that they want the fans to understand that this is purely a business/financial grievance. Which is fair enough. But why the incendiary remarks about McNabb ("I'm not the one who got tired in the fourth quarter [of the Super Bowl]"), or the cold shoulder that TO's given fans since the beginning of training camp? I can't really see any financial advantage to alienating everyone who has supported your cause. Owens wants everyone to know he's unhappy with his situation and he's doing a good job by making everything as difficult as humanly possible. As Skip Bayless said a few weeks ago on ESPN, Owens will take it to a point where the Eagles either have to give in to the wide-out's demands or simply try to unload his truculent ass on another team. It certainly won't be the case that Owens plays the season, gives his all in every game, and gets picked up by the Falcons or whoever in '06, gracefully leaving the Eagles with happy memories in tow. That won't happen. He'll drop passes, insult teammates, and just generally be an extremely acute pain in the ass. At least it'll make for some good television.
Posted by Kevin at August 11, 2005 05:04 PM
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