Terrell Owens In GQ: I'm In Hell

[BBQ101]

Terrell Owens has always been an island of sorts. His brash personality and self-absorption routinely alienated his teammates during an NFL career that teetered between terrific and toxic, leaving him to fend for himself.

Rest of the story: http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201201/terrell-owens-gq-jeremiah-trotter-told-me-not-apologize-donovan-mcnabb

BBQ

[Doomsday101]

Terrell Owens has always been an island of sorts. His brash personality and self-absorption routinely alienated his teammates during an NFL career that teetered between terrific and toxic, leaving him to fend for himself.

Rest of the story: http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201201/terrell-owens-gq-jeremiah-trotter-told-me-not-apologize-donovan-mcnabb

BBQ

As always he seems to be doing a lot of blaming of others

[vta]

I liked him with the Cowboys, he did some good things before he slowly became his old self. Reading this interesting article, you have no choice but to recognize a man who doesn't understand the concept of total responsibility. Every situation has a nuance where he is the victim or misunderstood. It transcends football and spans his finances and relationships as well as his job.

Put your shirt on and grow up.

[Doomsday101]

I liked him with the Cowboys, he did some good things before he slowly became his old self. Reading this interesting article, you have no choice but to recognize a man who doesn't understand the concept of total responsibility. Every situation has a nuance where he is the victim or misunderstood. It transcends football and spans his finances and relationships as well as his job.

Put your shirt on and grow up.

I agree with you. Fact is every thing is good in year 1 with TO before things start to sour and some how it is other people fault and never his own.

[Teague31]

karma is a real ***** Terrell.

[arglebargle]

When things start to go poorly, TO starts looking around for someone to blame. Sadly, this is one of the few times he's not looking at himself in the mirror.

[Doomsday101]

When things start to go poorly, TO starts looking around for someone to blame. Sadly, this is one of the few times he's not looking at himself in the mirror.

and that is where it all starts. When things are going wrong in your life you best look in the mirror before you look elsewhere. It is not by accident that the same things happen over and over for TO

[BraveHeartFan]

I feel for him at times but quite a bit of what he's had done to him by the media, as he says, are things he's brought on himself.

I do think the media are leeches who will latch onto anything they can and use it to tear a person down over and over again, never allowing them to get by that point if they possibly can, but Owens has to shoulder the blame for doing the stupid stuff he did in San Fran, then Philly, that allowed them to get that image of him and run with it.

[arglebargle]

I feel for him at times but quite a bit of what he's had done to him by the media, as he says, are things he's brought on himself.

I do think the media are leeches who will latch onto anything they can and use it to tear a person down over and over again, never allowing them to get by that point if they possibly can, but Owens has to shoulder the blame for doing the stupid stuff he did in San Fran, then Philly, that allowed them to get that image of him and run with it.

It'd be easier to feel sympathy for him if he didn't do the same thing over and over again. For someone as talented as he was, the fact that no team he played for was ever interested in keeping him is pretty telling.

He's not as bad as some media portrayals, but he's certainly got issues that put him behind the 8ball.

[visionary]

I liked him with the Cowboys, he did some good things before he slowly became his old self. Reading this interesting article, you have no choice but to recognize a man who doesn't understand the concept of total responsibility. Every situation has a nuance where he is the victim or misunderstood. It transcends football and spans his finances and relationships as well as his job.

Put your shirt on and grow up.

"they never allowed me to grow up" should tell you all you need to know about this guy

[Double Trouble]

This is a good lesson for Dez Bryant. Owens is broke in spite of making $80 Million. Many people, especially pro athletes, lack even a basic understanding of $$$, and when they sign a big contract, have no appreciation that is a finite amount of $$$ and it will not last forever. Like if you spend $800K on jewelry.

Hopefully, TO can find that there's a lot more to life than $$$.

[gmoney112]

As much as I dislike him, he's been getting absolutely reamed in child support. 600k+ a year in child support for four kids is absolutely ridiculous. There is no child in the world that needs 150k a year in support and now his lazy baby momma's who are used to the lavish lifestyle the courts afforded them are going to own his ***.

[Future]

As much as I dislike him, he's been getting absolutely reamed in child support. 600k+ a year in child support for four kids is absolutely ridiculous. There is no child in the world that needs 150k a year in support and now his lazy baby momma's who are used to the lavish lifestyle the courts afforded them are going to own his ***.
No glove, no love.

I actually think the media has screwed him throughout his career. Some of it is his own fault, sure, but they have really blown everything out of proportion when it comes to his life.

[InmanRoshi]

It'd be easier to feel sympathy for him if he didn't do the same thing over and over again. For someone as talented as he was, the fact that no team he played for was ever interested in keeping him is pretty telling.

I read Clayton Holmes story. Now there was a sympathetic figure. He completely blew it, he owned up to all of his mistakes and just wished he could do it all over again.

Owens claims he has no regrets, and everything that's happened in his life was someone else's fault. And quite frankly, I find it rather revolting he's not involved in his children's lives considering how much his own childhood has been broadcasted whenever there's a need for a sympathetic angle.

[InmanRoshi]

No glove, no love.

I actually think the media has screwed him throughout his career. Some of it is his own fault, sure, but they have really blown everything out of proportion when it comes to his life.

Owens' relationship with the media is completely symbiotic and a two way street. He's used them when he needed them. He's not getting reality TV shows greenlit about him if he hadn't used the media to make himself a public figure. He's trying to get a job in Hollywood acting. He's using the media in this GQ piece.

[Doomsday101]

No glove, no love.

I actually think the media has screwed him throughout his career. Some of it is his own fault, sure, but they have really blown everything out of proportion when it comes to his life.

Sure but he does that to himself. TO will not let issues go away he has to stand up and make statements after statement. Sometime you let the storm blow over, you don't keep adding to it. You get these running battles with the media they will win because they always get the last word. Say your peace then let it go and he could never do that

[tyke1doe]

As much as I dislike him, he's been getting absolutely reamed in child support. 600k+ a year in child support for four kids is absolutely ridiculous. There is no child in the world that needs 150k a year in support and now his lazy baby momma's who are used to the lavish lifestyle the courts afforded them are going to own his ***.

When your father makes that much, and he birthed you, you should be taken care of based on his income. Now that he's broke, he should go back to court and alter the terms of his child support.

But if you're going to lay, you gotta pay.

[Pentagruel]

I think T.O. is a sympathetic figure. I don't think he was ever a vicious or truly nasty teammate, just a demanding one who eventually ground down his teammates' resistance. I don't doubt that all these people took advantage of him, because they could.

I think all Terell Owens really knew and wanted to do was play football. The finances, the relationships, real life, that's what let him down. Surely it's fair to blame him for some of that, but we can empathize with him too, because he never meant to mess it all up. It just happened, because of his attitude which he couldn't change, and the media, who found it a convenient story to abuse.

[DallasEast]

Terrell Owens in GQ: I'm In HellSo..?

[SilverStarCowboy]

T.O. didn't do anything wrong except be himself.

[Hostile]

If I were an athlete who did not plan to marry I would get a vasectomy so fast. I'm talking as a college freshman fast. One reason to stay in school is to get an education so you have something to fall back on when your playing career ends. Give me one year of his salary and I would be set for life. He's "in hell."

Color me unsympathetic.

[zrinkill]

Give me one year of his salary and I would be set for life. He's "in hell."

Color me unsympathetic.



This .....

[WV Cowboy]

I feel bad for anyone that messes up their own life this bad.

I am so grateful for my parents, .. they were awesome, and yet I still messed up some things.

He was, and probably still is his own worst enemy.

His foundation has a crack, (or cracks) in it.

That house won't stand in the storm.

[tupperware]

Got this thread title from a thread over at ExtremeSkins:

Terrell Owens. Get your will work for food sign ready!

[Aikbach]

I despised his signing in 2006, i suspect so did Bill Parcells who correctly called the diva "The Player", I'm wondering now if he didn't actually attempt suicide that year as originally reported.

He had an incredible 2007 on the field, pacified his ahole tendencies for a single year, reverted back to it in 2008, he was a ****** plain and simple.

A man who lacks class, sportsmanship and disrespected this franchise in 2000 never deserved the chance to be a part of it.

And his being brought to Dallas is partially the ego of one Michael Irvin too, just as Deion should fes up that Pacman was his egotistical pet project he pedaled to Dallas Irvin should admit "My bad, that guy was not worth it" in regards to his lobby of Jerry Jones on behalf of T.O.

[Dave_in-NC]

If I were an athlete who did not plan to marry I would get a vasectomy so fast. I'm talking as a college freshman fast. One reason to stay in school is to get an education so you have something to fall back on when your playing career ends. Give me one year of his salary and I would be set for life. He's "in hell."

Color me unsympathetic.

This idiot is the biggest Dbag walking the face of the earth. Jerry was an idiot to sign him and it didn't bring results, I'm glad to be honest.

[Dave_in-NC]

I think T.O. is a sympathetic figure. I don't think he was ever a vicious or truly nasty teammate, just a demanding one who eventually ground down his teammates' resistance. I don't doubt that all these people took advantage of him, because they could.

I think all Terell Owens really knew and wanted to do was play football. The finances, the relationships, real life, that's what let him down. Surely it's fair to blame him for some of that, but we can empathize with him too, because he never meant to mess it all up. It just happened, because of his attitude which he couldn't change, and the media, who found it a convenient story to abuse.

Bull ****.

[Future]

I think T.O. is a sympathetic figure. I don't think he was ever a vicious or truly nasty teammate, just a demanding one who eventually ground down his teammates' resistance. I don't doubt that all these people took advantage of him, because they could.

I think all Terell Owens really knew and wanted to do was play football. The finances, the relationships, real life, that's what let him down. Surely it's fair to blame him for some of that, but we can empathize with him too, because he never meant to mess it all up. It just happened, because of his attitude which he couldn't change, and the media, who found it a convenient story to abuse.
Nice post.

[JoeCorrado]

I think T.O. is a sympathetic figure. I don't think he was ever a vicious or truly nasty teammate, just a demanding one who eventually ground down his teammates' resistance. I don't doubt that all these people took advantage of him, because they could.

I think all Terell Owens really knew and wanted to do was play football. The finances, the relationships, real life, that's what let him down. Surely it's fair to blame him for some of that, but we can empathize with him too, because he never meant to mess it all up. It just happened, because of his attitude which he couldn't change, and the media, who found it a convenient story to abuse.

This probably represents the most unbiased, and closest to the truth explanation.

I feel regret for Terrell's sake- for the gaps in his upbringing which left him ill equipped to navigate the waters to which his unquestioned skills eventually led him... I feel compassion for the fact that he never encountered (or has yet to encounter) somebody in his life who really cared for him, because of who he was, and what he could become- who could have made positive changes in his life for his sake, instead of their own, and helped him to achieve his fullest potential not just as a player, but a person.

Color me sympathetic, but otherwise unmoved. Life goes on for all of us and eventually our choices catch up to us all. I hope things work out for him and he can learn to enjoy life without regrets.