Doesn't it make you feel good when good things happen to good people? I know it does me. However, that has nothing to do with this story. This is about our favorite receiver in the NFL who sometimes goes by two letters. T.O. Time Out. Truncated Octahedron. Tangible Object. Top Offer. No, Terrell Owens, Mr. Regular Season himself. The man that celebrates all things him, but only in the regular season. I'm sure he would love to celebrate in the Playoffs sometime, but he really doesn't like to play for such little money. He knows that he is paid to play those 16 games, that is his bread and butter. They don't pay him to work past Christmas. Don't believe me. Check his stats.
4 Catches for 49 yards and a touchdown 2007 Dallas Cowboys
2 Catches for 26 yards and no touchdown 2006 Dallas Cowyboys
Sitting at home getting his popcorn ready 2005 Madden NFL (Philadelphia Eagles)
9 Catches for 122 yards and no touchdown 2004 (actually his best game) Philly
No Playoffs 2003 San Francisco
Actually his biggest Playoff catch was when he was just Terrell Owens and Steve Young hit him down the middle for a game winning touchdown against a good Green Bay team. He was a completely different person back than. He hadn't morphed into The Personality.
What makes a receiver stand out in the regular season and disappear in the Post Season? He is consistent with this recently too. He even has had drops in the Post Season. Is the Spot Light Too Bright? Is the defense all of a sudden faster? Especially puzzling is this year against the Giants. He torched them twice in the regular season. What happened. I think its the money. After all this is the same player who after accidentally almost committing suicide had his foxy spokesperson tell the world that he had 26 million reasons to live.
Jerry Jones is a fool and he is shrewd. He knows that he isn't going to get anything out of T.O. in the playoffs but that T.O. sells tickets in the regular season and he has a brand new $1 Billion stadium being built with lots of seats. T.O. knows he only has to worry about 16 weekends of work and he can coast until he is invited to the next Super Bowl Party. He really loves those and you can't really go to those when you have to play in the game, so its a win win.
But T.O. isn't alone on this street. In fact, this street is easy to find because all you have to look for is some overpaid big mouth egotistical receivers. They all live on the same street. T.O. meet Chad Johnson. Chad Johnson meet Randy Moss. I'm still trying to find Randy Moss in the Super Bowl. I know he was in the game but Tom Brady couldn't get the ball anywhere near him until late in the game. And then it kinda just bounced off his hands for what would have been the game winning score. Chad I've only see play once in the playoffs and he sure did look a little butter-fingered that game. Weird. He sure did like being on TV during the week running up to the Super Bowl that year though. He had to make sure we all knew who he was and what he had planned for next year, I mean, the regular season next year.
I'm old school, I know it, but these guys were meant to be in the NBA not the NFL. Did you ever notice when fools likes these act up in the NBA nobody listens. For some reason the NFL's media loves these guys. Back in the day they would have been pounded into submission by the defense, but not today. They live with the easiest rules in football, (can't touch after 5 yards) and then celebrate it like they really got open. What a joke. I would have loved to see Mel Blount or Kenny Houston or George Atkinson lay these dudes out when they started celebrating something they are paid to do. I'm amazed that they get away with it in todays game, but so be it.
So folks, get your popcorn ready. At least for the 16 regulars season games.
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