fiveandcounting;2545301 said:
Lighten the heck up man. This is not a court of law. Stop asking for evidence. Your arguments are no more compelling than others. Owens is a narcissist who sometimes masks "wanting to win" with wanting his stats padded. Maybe we havent seen as much with the boys but you cant ignore his past. From yelling at his coaches on the sidelines with the 49ers, to refusing to be traded to the Ravens, to the I love me some me crap, to calling his teammate gay, etc, etc, etc, etc we have all seen his m.o. If you think he has changed your naive.
Here we go again. You people are a broken record of ignorance.
yelling at his coaches on the sidelines with the 49ers
1. One coach (Greg Knapp), not "coaches"
2. Yelling at coaches on the sidelines is not even remotely uncommon in professional football. Jerry Rice did it numerous times. Steve Young tried to assault George Seifert; luckily Marc Trestman was in the way to take Young's verbal beating.
The very same week everyone made a huge deal out of Owens shouting at Knapp for a few seconds after the latter called a running play with 10 in the box on 4th and 2 with the 49ers down 28-0 to the Vikings (in 2003), the
VERY SAME WEEK, Rich Gannon was shown screaming at Bill Calahan on the sidelines.
Troy Aikman screamed at players and coaches all the time. Same with Michael Irvin.
to refusing to be traded to the Ravens
Is there a problem here? Do you remember what actually happened?
Owens was supposed to be a free agent, only his agent "didn't file the paperwork." At least that's what 49ers scumbag GM Terry Donahue wanted you to believe.
The reality is the 49ers never sent David Joseph the paperwork. The arbitrator was about to grant T.O. free agency, which is why the 49ers/Ravens/Eagles negotiated the deal to send him to Philly.
The 49ers had told Owens before they traded him that he would have the final say in which offer he chose. Then, when the Ravens offered the 49ers a 2nd round pick, Donahue pulled the trigger without notifying him.
to the I love me some me crap
You can
NOT be serious. Please tell me you're joking.
You're going to use his NFL sideline "pump up" sound bites as a complaint against him?
to calling his teammate gay
Jeff Garcia was not his teammate at the time that interview was conducted (summer of 2003).
Etc etc etc etc?
You're right, there are literally HUNDREDS of other things that people have tried to make into a big deal about Terrell Owens. He misses some training camp with a hamstring injury and it's "is he faking it?!?!" He wears a freak'n Lance Armstrong outfit just to lighten the mood when he's rehabbing and somehow people don't have a sense of humor anymore. He says the team had too many penalties and he's "throwing the penalty committees under the bus."
On another note, I noticed all of the "incidents" you listed were from 2003 and beyond. None from 2000-2002. Why is that?
Why is it that people act like the media libel and character assassination just began in 2003? In 2000-2002 he was EVERY BIT AS MALIGNED IN THE MEDIA. Every single bit.
What had he done to that point? When did it start?
It all started when he went to the star twice to celebrate touchdowns in 2000. Immediately after, he was the biggest villain in sports. None of those other things had come up yet.
There is not a damn bit of difference between how he is portrayed now and has been since 2003 and how he was portrayed then. If you watch old ESPN Sunday Countdowns from 2001 you'll see them ranting and raving on how awful he is for 5 minutes every other show.
