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Apologies for the long sabbatical for anyone who actually held their breath for me to post new articles.  Life has been busy, and I am just thankful I still have a job (other than neglecting www.sportsboner.com), to weather this storm we are all experiencing.

Of course the only thing that could pull me from my hibernating hiatus would be one Terrell Owens.

As a Cowboys fan who incessantly defended TO, and I would still to this day ideally, you’ll soon sour on him as well if you’re a Buffalo Bills fan….  meaning if you live in Buffalo, NY or Canada.

I honestly never thought I would. He did everything to help the Cowboys win.  That locker room tabloid stuff mostly is exaggeration. They act like the 2008 Cowboys are the only team in history to have locker room issues.  The problem is no one stands up to this guy. He is a bully.  Witten tried, but for someone who had to call his BF Romo days after he was mostly blamed for the Pittsburgh loss… well lets just say I question how manly you are when you can’t handle media scrutiny after 3+ years in the league already and you have to call Romo for comfort.

TO does his best in his first years with a team to prove naysayers wrong.  He is just a crazy dude.  People will continue to bash him and this only drives him more to lose trust or have none at all for anyone which is his fault but it only matters because he is gifted physically. His back story should say it all, crushing on a girl when he was young only to find out she was his half-sister as told by her father to him at the time he didn’t realize he was his father… that would screw with anyone.

It’s not an excuse, you figure he’d learn by now that he gets paid a lot to play a boys game.  As physical as it may be.  Consider the fact (ignore the circus) that when he gets his: 80+ catches, 1000+ yards, 10+ TDs….his team is competitive and in the playoffs.  I mean when he says good things happen when he’s getting the ball, he’s not that FAR off…. I mean get him the ball, and you should win.  Simple as that.

However, its not that simple.  He is a locker room cancer, and if a team were to have 13+ wins and he happens to have only 40 catches for 400 yards for 3 TDs, he’d still moan about it.  So don’t believe him when he says he just wants to win.  Hogwash.  (What is this the Nickelodeon After School Hour?)  Dagnabit.  He wants to win and he wants money.  G-Gosh-Darnit.

AKA Kurt Warner, I never understand athletes who think we respect them more if they deny its about the money and they think we believe them.  Instead if you just say its about the money and only the money I would respect you more!!

I’ve read various articles about TO, everyone has their opinion on the situation but I think its many things.  The fact that he wanted out of San Francisco because they wouldn’t pay him more, and he torpedoed Philly because they wouldn’t pick up his 12 million dollar option, and lastly add that to the fact that the first two years he was in Dallas, Jones paid him base salaries of 5 million a year which means if he doesn’t behave in a sense, he doesn’t get paid.  Once Jones mistakenly gave him 12 million (I think) in guaranteed money part of his 35 million over 3 years or so, he started stirring the pot.  Its a combo of things, having the guaranteed money and being close to the owner (no denying it, Jones loves TO: his talent and the media circus he brings) made TO think he was untouchable.  In a sense he was untouchable.  If he was up against Witten only he might still be here.  But between an aging WR and your franchise QB (even if he is overrated IMO), the owner has to and did choose the QB…  simple as that.

Its an interesting study to see mentally unstable individuals given power through money and celebrity.  Only in America I feel does this stand out especially in sports and Hollywood.  There are plenty of crazy people in the world, only in America do you see crazy people wield attention and power because of their celebrity status.
Owens will be out to prove he’s a good person.  In many ways he is.  From caring for an ESPN writer after he got run over by a car to mostly all of his Cowboys teammates swearing he is a good teammate (conspicuously missing is Witten and Romo’s comments), there are many likable attributes about Owens the man.  Unfortunately the cloud of despair shrouds any good deeds with the various alienating, paranoia that is Terrell Owens.
Best wishes, TO.  I mean that.  And Best Wishes to you Trent Edwards.  =)