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awwwww, isn't that Jones - Owens couple so cute???
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns
T.O. is the star of a soap opera that is just beginning in Dallas
Cue the music and make sure Jerry Jones gets to makeup. While you're at it, check wardrobe and see if they have a spare bicycle racing suit for Terrell Owens.
This just in from Dallas, where the old TV show by the same name has nothing on the drama this soap opera figures to generate by the time it's over:
Owens knows his body better than anyone. He's been saying that for weeks when anyone questions why he doesn't practice.
T.O. just hasn't figured a way to get that body out of bed on time.
Not to worry, says our star, because these kind of things happen. Besides, don't they play most NFL games in the afternoon and at night?
"I think everybody has overslept, you know, once or twice in their life before," Owens said Monday. "Nothing intentional, something that happened. There's nothing I can do about it."
Actually, T.O., there is.
You might try what most working stiffs who have to get up in the morning to pay bills do -- buy a couple of alarm clocks and make sure you set them before you go to bed.
Heck, take part of that $5 million bonus the Cowboys paid you and hire a personal wake-up attendant. If you still can't get up, he could toss a glass of cold water on you.
Who knows, you might even stretch out that hammy while chasing him out of the house. That would make your boss happy because he's been wondering lately why you've been riding your exercise bike while your co-workers are out doing their jobs.
You do know the boss, don't you? He's the big guy in shorts who spent 10 minutes the other day answering questions about you while barely mentioning your name once.
Maybe he's not sure what it is. He didn't come to the welcoming party Jones gave, and the two of you apparently haven't had time to get together for a good chat since you joined the company.
That's not good because communication is everything. Just look how effectively you were able to communicate in Philadelphia when you let the world know that one quarterback was a quitter and another one might be gay.
Oh yeah, the coaches were pond s , too.
And it's not like the big guy doesn't like to talk. He spent some time chatting with his injured kicker, so why wouldn't he spend some time chatting with his star receiver?
With good reason, apparently.
"I had something to talk to (Mike) Vanderjagt about," Bill Parcells said. "I didn't have anything to talk to Terrell about right this moment."
OK, let's see. You're the coach of one of the premier teams in the NFL and the guy brought in to be your franchise player has missed 20 practices and three preseason games with a hamstring injury that doesn't show up on MRI's.
The same player has a history of disrupting every team he's been on and he shows up late for practice only to say it's no big deal because everyone oversleeps occasionally. The same player also suggests you don't need to see him practice because you can watch 10 years of highlight tapes.
And you have nothing to talk to him about?
Parcells should have been talking to Owens the minute he saw the receiver sitting next to Jones and agent Drew Rosenhaus that day in March with a Dallas hat on his head. Better yet, he should have been talking to Jones and telling the owner he was crazy to sign Owens.
Maybe Parcells was taken in by the new, more humble T.O., an act that lasted the better part of, say, one day.
"I'll be a better teammate, better person, better man in life," Owens said that day.
Jones bought into it enough that it didn't seem to bother him that he was signing a player Cowboy fans hated for defiling their beloved midfield star during a touchdown while playing for the 49ers in 2000.
He was clearly smitten with both Owens and the idea of making a big splash by signing football's bad boy.
"These guys have fallen in love already," Rosenhaus gushed at the time. "On the jet here the bond they established was moving ... moving."
That bond is still apparently intact because Jones on Monday defended Owens, calling him a genuine person and saying some of the finest players in Cowboy history have been fined for one thing or another. He went on to suggest that all the attention given Owens may be a good thing for his team.
"One of the great things about sports, about the NFL, about the Cowboys, is it can be very entertaining," Jones said.
Jones is certainly getting bang for his buck. Owens has cost him only $5 million so far, and he could dump him tomorrow without spending another cent.
Which, come to think of it, might not be such a bad idea.
Do it before Owens starts arguing with Parcells over playing time. Do it before Owens picks his first fight with Drew Bledsoe. Do it before he and Jones fall out of love.
Do it now because the drama in Dallas is only just beginning.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at [email protected]
awwwww, isn't that Jones - Owens couple so cute???
ahhhh..the media...they REALLLY want a story
Everything involving Owens and Parcells, and Owens and JJ has been blown out of proportion.
You know how reporters and columnists are, They want the controversy, they want the negativity. How shocking that everything concerning T.O. gets put under a microscope.
Given it's a marriage between America's team and the most controversial athlete in pro football, did anyone expect anything less from the media spin-doctoring every little thing that surrounds T.O.?
They want controversy so bad they are going to create it by bugging TO and Parcells about it. The media will make them hate each other, thus destorying this team. And I will enjoy every minute of it.
TO is an asshole, but as soon as the regular season gets under way he'll be playing and doing basically what he does. He'll complain and have his blow ups, but Bledsoe and Parcells seem better suited to handle that than McNabb and Reid. McNabb made the mistake of fighting with him instead of ignoring him - as with any child throwing a fit, wanting attention if you ignore him he'll eventually lose interest and fall in line.
I am interested to see how TO reacts when the season starts. If he screws this up, I don't even think the most desperate team in the NFL will pick him up. He'll lose football and have nothing to do but break the law because he is too stupid not to. An older Maurice Clarett.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
I hope they win the SB. I would love it since I am a Cowboy fan first and foremost - but I am still skeptical of the effect TO will have on this team. If he falls in line the team (and especially Glenn, Jones, and Barber) will have a great season. If he doesn't they may not.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
No way Dallas gets past Carolina in the NFC.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
Others have laughed their asses off at this comment and I, too, must laugh.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
My goodness.
It's not like Carolina is thatttttt much better than Dallas.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
I love the haters, and how they will spin the Cowboys having the best record in the NFC, and going to the Super Bowl.
I absolutely cannot wait.
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