T.O. kettle celebration

[Bleu Star]

If by classiest you mean: attempting to draw attention to himself because he loves the spotlight, than yes. If it was classy he would have donated it after the game when all the cameras were not on. If you could see past your man crush on TO you would probably realise this.

there's always at least one hater in the crowd. Haterade anyone?

The sooner we all get off TO's back the better off we'll all be. The guy does his thing. He realizes now that he has to do it w/o getting penalized. he plays for the Cowboys now and we won't stand for the 15 yarders. He knows that.

Call me a TO apologist if you'd like. That's cool. I was called a Romo apologist/Bledsoe hater 6 weeks ago. I bet no one calls me that now.

 

[TimeKeeper]

I loved the kettle celebration. The only thing that might have made it better would have been for him to whip out a sharpie and sign that puppy before he dropped it in. But I'm sure they'll have him do that anyway to get that value up there. Way to go T.O.!

 

[LaTunaNostra]

I don't like owens at all. I did like that celebration.

My sentiments exactly...it was a great way to call attention to the Salvation Army's Christmastime drive, and I have no doubt some viewers were inspired to donate because of it.
Whether that was Owens' objective or not is irrelevant...the ends justify the means in this case.

What I have noticed over the last few weeks are Owens' post game remarks and there is a decided decrease in 'me-oriented' statements. Certainly, he is not about to become a Tony Romo who gracefully turns every personal complement into praise of the team, but I have no doubt that the players and coaches are doing a great job of modeling 'team' behavior to Owens.

Surrounded by SO MUCH humble offensive talent, the self-effacing Romo (who could be drawing a media circus every time he exhales, but chooses not to), Glenn, Jones, Witten, Barber - not a horn blower amongst them - Owens must see how mature and confident players react to individual success- by promoting team thru it. And the defensive stars are equally modest.

To the greater glory of Bill Parcells - harnessing Owens' ego to the good of the team is as impressive an accomplishment as the week-to-week development of Romo. By building so much character into an organism, an errant microbe can be swallowed and digested....even if it's as energetic and erratic as Terrell Owens.

As Jerry said yesterday, quoted in the press today, "Bill's intelligence is off the charts".

When it comes to handling men, Parcells is a world class CEO.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Classy or not I could care less.

I thought it was Great!

Yeah.... my thoughts were the same. I didnt care about motive or anything... .just plain GREAT.

I was watching with some folks who don't like TO at all. One jumped up and shouted -- that's a awesome celebration!"

That is pretty cool right there.

I don't like owens at all. I did like that celebration, although I was crapping my pants wondering where he was going with that ball.

Actually I wasnt nervous... I thought he was going to give it to a fan.

 

[Clove]

Don't forget that TO is an entertainer, so don't be mad when he goes back to a silly dance or something, their's no harm in it. The Salvation donation was one of the funniest celebrations I've seen in awhile.

Just the way he deposited it, looked like something from a cartoon. Very classy and very funny, and BTW, someone asked if he had something planned as a celebration last week, and he said he has something planned, so obviously he planned to do it.

 

[tyke1doe]

First off let me say that I opposed bringing in TO cause of concern over what harm he'd do to our team which has so many young players and not a lot of vet leadership--most teams won't count Bradie James 4th year as a real vet.

TO has made a few mistakes since he's been with the Cowboys but nothing like the media has made it out to be. Also why I'm somewhat suspicious of everything he does, I was very pleased with his celebration of his TD by giving/donating that ball to the Salvation Army. Find myself distrubed that a real Cowboy fan on Thanksgiving Day would criticize him for giving that ball to the Salvation Army. I equate that with those fans of other teams who claim Romo cocky and arrogant cause their team can't beat him on the football field or are scared of what the Cowboys are doing.

Anyway, do any of you realize how much money the Salvation Army can get for that football. Besides the fact that the NFL will fine TO $2,500 for giving the ball away, the Salvation Army would/should auction that football off and they will get big bucks. For pete's sake, TO (one of most famous players in sports world whose known only by his initials) catchs a TD from the most well known "rookie" QB in the NFL right now on the way for a big Cowboy win for us on Thanksgiving Day on national TV & TO donates that ball to the Salvation Army. If Salvation Army can't get at least $10,000 for that ball, they didn't try. You know there's got to be a football fan, hopefully a Cowboy fan, who loves Cowboys enough or has enough money to essentially donate it to the Salvatin Army and get that TO catch ball thrown by "rookie" sensation Tony Romo. Won't be surprised if the bidding went as high as $20,000-$30,000 and some of you don't like what he did. The public way he did it is what will guarantee it bringing in the big money. Plus what's to stop other NFL WRs from doing something similar in their TD celebrations; he might have started something by celebrating it this way.

It's dispiriting that so many Cowboy fans on Thanksgiving Day can be so critical of an action that will benefit so many Americans this Christmas season. You really should be ashamed of yourselves. I can only hope that those critical were just kids who didn't know/understand any better and not mature adults. I've no doubt I'll be blasted for posting this or even have it removed by moderators. Well they can do it if they want.

While, I may agree with the substance of your post and said something similar, let's get away from this what "True" Cowboys fans would do.

Cowboys fans aren't unlike any other fans who disagree with certain aspects of playcalling, who we draft, who should coach the team, etc.

You can not like the Salvation Army celebration and STILL be a Cowboys fan. You can think it was an admireable gesture on TO's part and still question his motives based on his history.

I liked the gesture, personally. But I'm not going to get on this forum and question someone's allegience to the Cowboys just because they thought TO was experiencing a selfish moment with respect to the red kettle donation.

Now all of you make sure you follow TO's lead and donate to the Salvation Army reps ringing those bells outside of American stores in your neighborhood (presuming you celebrate Christmas, of course).

 

[tyke1doe]

Don't forget that TO is an entertainer, so don't be mad when he goes back to a silly dance or something, their's no harm in it. The Salvation donation was one of the funniest celebrations I've seen in awhile.

Just the way he deposited it, looked like something from a cartoon. Very classy and very funny, and BTW, someone asked if he had something planned as a celebration last week, and he said he has something planned, so obviously he planned to do it.

I betcha it wins the TD celebration of the year.