DrGuile
04-15-2005, 03:57 PM
I didnt know about the McNabb comments... geeze... Also, dont try and claim that you arent greedy or selfish... please...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writ...blog/index.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/josh_elliott/04/15/daily.blog/index.html)
1. Terrell Owens is right on schedule. The NFL's reigning rotten apple, however freakishly talented and potentially game-breaking, is reverting to form, and if nothing else, Eagles president Joe Banner and coach Andy Reid and teammate-in-the-crosshairs Donovan McNabb, can't say they weren't warned.
A player yapping about being underpaid or "outperforming a contract," while protesting that his absurd stance doesn't mean he's greedy or selfish -- and oh, by the way, tossing an undeserving teammate under the bus in the process -- is nothing new in professional sport. Of course, the Eagles had every reason to believe that paying a guy almost $49 million over seven years -- including more $9 million last year -- would be enough to guarantee a little loyalty. They had every reason to hope that T.O. would perform as he did -- 77 catches, 1,200 yards, 14 TDs, immeasurable fear factor -- and rejoiced when he returned so brilliantly in last year's Super Bowl loss to New England. Sure, there were hiccups -- the September Playboy interview (in which he inferred former teammate Jeff Garcia was gay, among other things), the sort-of tiff with a struggling McNabb in Pittsburgh, the incessant showboating -- but they were nothing Philly couldn't digest.
But to have the relationship start to rot so soon thereafter is, even for T.O., laughable. (Except in Philly, where it's not so funny.) For Owens to show his true colors isn't so surprising. But that he would punk McNabb in the process -- saying that he should get a new deal, in part, because he "wasn't the one who got tired in the Super Bowl" -- sinks him to a low matched only by his asinine comments regarding Garcia's sexual identity.
Of course, Owens recanted those comments. Now, one suspects, such backtracking won't be so easy. Good luck, Igs -- you're gonna need it.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writ...blog/index.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/josh_elliott/04/15/daily.blog/index.html)
1. Terrell Owens is right on schedule. The NFL's reigning rotten apple, however freakishly talented and potentially game-breaking, is reverting to form, and if nothing else, Eagles president Joe Banner and coach Andy Reid and teammate-in-the-crosshairs Donovan McNabb, can't say they weren't warned.
A player yapping about being underpaid or "outperforming a contract," while protesting that his absurd stance doesn't mean he's greedy or selfish -- and oh, by the way, tossing an undeserving teammate under the bus in the process -- is nothing new in professional sport. Of course, the Eagles had every reason to believe that paying a guy almost $49 million over seven years -- including more $9 million last year -- would be enough to guarantee a little loyalty. They had every reason to hope that T.O. would perform as he did -- 77 catches, 1,200 yards, 14 TDs, immeasurable fear factor -- and rejoiced when he returned so brilliantly in last year's Super Bowl loss to New England. Sure, there were hiccups -- the September Playboy interview (in which he inferred former teammate Jeff Garcia was gay, among other things), the sort-of tiff with a struggling McNabb in Pittsburgh, the incessant showboating -- but they were nothing Philly couldn't digest.
But to have the relationship start to rot so soon thereafter is, even for T.O., laughable. (Except in Philly, where it's not so funny.) For Owens to show his true colors isn't so surprising. But that he would punk McNabb in the process -- saying that he should get a new deal, in part, because he "wasn't the one who got tired in the Super Bowl" -- sinks him to a low matched only by his asinine comments regarding Garcia's sexual identity.
Of course, Owens recanted those comments. Now, one suspects, such backtracking won't be so easy. Good luck, Igs -- you're gonna need it.