Terrell Owens won't attend Hall of Fame induction ceremony

[Dre11]

So being a good teammate has nothing to do with being part of a team or you as a player? I say it does!

When you are on the field as part of an 11 man team, nothing you do is "just you"

That has nothing to do with your individual accomplishments.

 

[nightrain]

That’s exactly what the voters wanted, cooperative effort my ***. they wanted to punish him. Why should he be grateful for that.

He deserved to be twice snubbed for being a total tool throughout his career.

 

[Teague31]

Shocker
Once a jerk, always a jerk

- George Teague

 

[Hennessy_King]

LOL.

The guy was a nut ball. I always like how people blame everyone around TO for the issues. The common link through a lot of this was Owens.

Great, great WR. Great, great knucklehead too.

Like I said the one person who loves T.O. and has nothing bad to say about him is the HOF QB, that might be more telling. The guy is the ultimate competitor and signed a waiver to play in the SB with a broken leg and dominated the game. What player this day and age would sign a waiver to play? Zero.

 

[Dre11]

It apparently is.

No it isn’t, I heard ex voters say it isn’t, especially during the Irvin snubs

 

[Hennessy_King]

To the civilized world.

You mean old people from the south?

 

[Dre11]

He deserved to be twice snubbed for being a total tool throughout his career.

No he didn’t. And neither did Irvin

 

[Idgit]

I'm not going to take time to read six pages because I know they're filled with some love but mostly misplaced hatred.......

That said, this truly made my day. TO's numbers speak for themselves and he should be judged primarily on his achievements.

Screw the phonies that purposely "Kaepernicked" him for years. Screw the lot of them.

Major major props to TO for giving a big public *** ewe to the lame folks that hated on him for so long. I will look forward to the news of his separate ceremony and may even try to attend when that information does come out.

GETCHA POPCORN READY!

Like it or not, being as great a player as he was and let go from as many teams as he was let go from counts as an achievement for TO. If your character affects your playing career to the extent TO's obviously did, it's relevant to your HoF bid.

He's in, and he deserves to be, but the guy was a destructive clown in the locker room. All he's doing here is reminding everybody of that fact.

 

[MarcusRock]

Karma dictates that you reap what you sow regardless of laws or rules. He was a jerk and he paid a bit of a price. The fact that he's so upset about it proves he knows it's the truth.

He might also be upset because he was clearly denied an obvious first ballot HOF induction.

 

[MarcusRock]

No he didn’t. And neither did Irvin

But when it happened to Irvin it was a "conspiracy" against the Cowboys, lol.

 

[dallasdave]

I saw a 'clickbait' once where he was working at a carwash& was forced to eat processed foods


* I didn't care enough to 'click'

Say it ain't so

 

[Dre11]

But when it happened to Irvin it was a "conspiracy" against the Cowboys, lol.

Exactly...lol

 

[dallasdave]

He is incredibly unlikeable

 

[Dre11]

He might also be upset because he was clearly denied an obvious first ballot HOF induction.

Imagine that....lol

 

[glimmerman]

He made 70 million and is worth maybe 2 today. Unreal.

 

[Melonfeud]

Like it or not, being as great a player as he was and let go from as many teams as he was let go from counts as an achievement for TO. If your character affects your playing career to the extent TO's obviously did, it's relevant to your HoF bid.

He's in, and he deserves to be, but the guy was a destructive clown in the locker room. All he's doing here is reminding everybody of that fact.

Romo seemed work him out on that playing field to good effect

 

[dogunwo]

Like it or not, being as great a player as he was and let go from as many teams as he was let go from counts as an achievement for TO. If your character affects your playing career to the extent TO's obviously did, it's relevant to your HoF bid.

He's in, and he deserves to be, but the guy was a destructive clown in the locker room. All he's doing here is reminding everybody of that fact.

Bill Polian is in the Hall Of Fame. He went on air on BSPN with his holier than thou mentality and stated TO's excellence did not overshadow the fact that he was cut twice in his career, that him being let go by multiple teams was a relevant reason to keep him out. Bill Polian himself has been cited for destructive behavior and has been fired by multiple teams. I guess his "excellence" was enough to overshadow those facts huh?

 

[OmerV]

That’s what your interpretation or theory as to why he declined to be there. Why decline the induction? He earned it.

Granted I can't speak as to exactly what is in TO's mind, but you yourself spoke for both TO and the HOF voters by saying they treated him bad and he threw a middle finger at them, so I would say I have as much right to make my judgement as you do.

In any case, I think it's pretty obvious that, right or wrong, the delay for TO was because of how voters perceived his actions in the locker room and on the sidelines and with the media. Accordingly, the smart thing for TO to do would have been to respond to the election in a manner that showed him in a different light. As it is, he responded in a manner that only reinforces the negative perceptions.

 

[Dre11]

Granted I can't speak as to exactly what is in TO's mind, but you yourself spoke for both TO and the HOF voters by saying they treated him bad and he threw a middle finger at them, so I would say I have as much right to make my judgement as you do.

In any case, I think it's pretty obvious that, right or wrong, the delay for TO was because of how voters perceived his actions in the locker room and on the sidelines and with the media. Accordingly, the smart thing for TO to do would have been to respond to the election in a manner that showed him in a different light. As it is, he responded in a manner that only reinforces the negative perceptions.

Showed him in what light? What does that do for him? He has the right to decline the ceremony. His NFL legacy is written , nothing is going to change that.

 

[OmerV]

If it is only about his play on the field, then the voters are the ones being petty first. He's just returning the favor. But if you actually do consider things detrimental to the game, what of players who disgrace themselves AFTER being inducted? I mean, nothing happened to OJ's HOF status, right? That would make it so that as long as you don't turn into a pariah until after you're voted in you get to keep all the career accolades you earned during your playing days.

And where would you draw the line as one instructing voters? Fraud is fine but murder is not? One murder is fine but mass murder is not? Do you instruct on current "movements" en vogue in society and deny a player if they're against one of those movements? To me, it's much, much simpler to just stick to what's done on the field. I mean, someone can say that he took away from the game but broadcasters and networks made hella bank talking about his antics during the week to keep fans interested so they could be "outraged" by stuff. Like it or not, that's a "contribution" to the game of an unconventional sort.

The system ain't perfect, no doubt. I personally don't think the HOF should just ignore everything except play on the field. For example, if someone commits a violent crime before they are elected, I don't think they should get in. Of course, that's an easy example, and a situation like TO's isn't that black and while because his actions obviously didn't rise to anything remotely close to that level. But I do get that there could be consideration given to the thought that he might have actually done things that were detrimental to team success. After all, the point of the contributions on the field are to bring team success, and if a player is offsetting the good he does on the field by doing things that decrease cooperation and communication and good will, then his on the field contributions are diminished. The problem, as you mentioned, is how do you find a standard that is fair and not subject to personal biases, and unfortunately I don't know of a voting process in any organization that is fee from personal biases.