It Really Doesn’t Matter What T.O. Thinks

While sitting here wondering whether or not to get into a full blown post about sales, marketing, advertising or some other subject worthy of a post, I was listening to ESPN in the background.

Terrell Owens, a Philadelphia Eagles ( sometimes ) wide receiver was apologizing for dissing his team and teammates. Really smart man, T.O., bites the hand that throws to him and the one that pays him.

Kinda stupid, is he not ?

Some reporter stuck his mic in the faces of some of his teammates, hoping with a fervent, nasty hope, that one of them would go ballistic for him. No takers.

Here’s what I would have said, had I been bigger, stronger and faster and in front of one of the lockers the reporter was stalking:

Who gives a damn what Terrell Owens says, thinks or does !

He’s one small pimple on the butt of the NFL.

He’s obviously very self-centered, not very well spoken, not very well educated and his opinions are virtually worthless because of those facts.

He’s done nothing heroic. No saving of babies from burning houses. No rushing into a bank and stopping a robbery. Hasn’t spent the night trying to keep someone alive in an ER in inner city New York. Nothing.

Nothing but having a unique ability to catch an oblong ball and run with it. Not that big of a deal. I’ve done it, just not as well as he. Others do it daily, just as well and for less cash. Think about that, Mr. General Manager, just as well and for less cash. Should be an easy one to fix, this small problem.

That ability doesn’t make his thoughts worth listening to, he just doesn’t know that, because he really likes listening to himself, so he thinks eveybody else does too.

Here’s how the Eagles and the other teams can fix this problem. It’s real simple and you know I like simple.

Cut his stupid butt ! Send him home and when no other teams pick him up, the reporters will stop sticking mic’s in front of him and he’ll have to face the reality that he’s really rather insignificant in the grand scheme of life.

No other teams need his services, either. Don’t pick him up. Leopards don’t change their spots. Zebra’s are always stripey…black, white, black, white. He’s dissing his teammates and getting paid to do it. He’s done it everywhere he’s been, he’ll do it to you, too, if you’re dumb enough to pick him up.

Trust me on this one, you won’t miss him. We won’t miss him. The NFL won’t miss him.

I’m tired of seeing him, hearing him and seeing you pay him to be stupid. Wake up Eagles management and call his agent and tell him to come get his personal items.

Perception is a terrible thing, sometimes. He perceives that the mindless babbling that spews from his mouth is important. I perceive that it ain’t.

A survey on ESPN’s homepage says 80% of the 42,000 ( at the time I wrote this ) who responded agree with me.

Sorry to get away from the usual subjects around here, but I do feel better. I’ll really feel good when he’s unemployed.