Bills Sign T.O.
Maybe it’s the fact that owner Ralph Wilson is in his 90s and wants to see a championship team before he passes. Maybe it’s the fact the Bills have a lot of seats to sell in a severely economically depressed area.
For some reason, the Buffalo Bills decided they needed Terrell Owens. The wide receiver signed a one-year contract with the Bills and was introduced in a hastily press conference early Saturday evening in Buffalo.
The deal will bring Owens $6.5 million in guaranteed dollars.
“I’m leaving America’s team [for] North America’s team,” Owens said Saturday night in Buffalo.
“I must move on, and it’s another beginning for me,” Owens said. “If I can be that extra added piece to get them to the playoffs, then that’s what I’m here for. I looked at the defensive side of ball and offensive side of the ball, and these guys have all the pieces.”
In fact, Owens thinks the Bills are a very good fit for him.
“This is an opportunity,” said Owens. “It’s an interesting situation. No matter what uniform I put on, I perform, so it’s not a matter of what tipped the scale. It could be money, it could be this, you never know. I will say that it’s an opportunity.
“I saw how the Bills started last year and they made some eyes open last year, so if I can be that extra added piece to the puzzle to get them to the playoffs and make something happen, then that’s what I’m here for.”
A personality disorder doesn’t go away because you move. Todd Haley pegged Ownens right and told Jerry Jones long before Jones finally saw the light. Good luck Buffalo! Better you than us.
Such a shame for football fandom that a guy with the talent of a Terrell Owens squanders it to his fits of fancy. His prerogative to be sure, only this…’what might have been’ & the similar ‘if only’, saddest words e’er spoken.
“He had it all, million dollar talent” is an oft spoken catch of writers about the ‘game’ of well known sports legends who then add with a hint of lost reverence an utterance heard more today than yester “and a 10 cent head.”
As the late Mickey Mantle said before passing as to his not taking better care of himself and his career/deportment: “I p****d it all away.”
I shudder to think how I and other fans of former Chiefs great Otis Taylor- the football forefather of an Owens talent wise – would feel/remember him had he been the distraction Owens has been.
Taylor was peerless on the field; off the field Otis dealt with the degrees of public scrutiny and disregard in a professional way. Otis was a tru pro unlike Owens and a host of other modern day prima donnas.
I do recall with a ‘dogged grin’ mine one out of character OT story – after his great 1971 season when he led the NFL in pass receiving yards, and was the only player to top 1000 that year, media offers to sell products etc. were not to come his way. More a nod toward small town KC being a blip on the map than anything to do with Taylor, Otis responded “you know, I would be so happy to do a commercial I would even volunteer to eat the dog food”…a man after my own heart.
The passage of time alone is not the culprit in such outlandish player conduct: motormouths like former Chief Fred Williamson, Colt & Jet Johnny Sample, prima donnas variously Cookie Gilchrist, Charley Taylor and among others, were doing their thing in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Difference being, today such is epidemic, not isolated. For this pro football is the worse.
As Len Dawson opined “there is a time & a place to fool (BLOGGERS NOTE: like on a ‘blog’), but, the football field is neither the time nor the place.” Words to live by – in a football sense.
Perhaps the line tween playing football & playing the lead in one-man act nee dramatic presentation has been blurred . . . I wouldn’t know – but, I’m “workin” it.
Did anyone notice during T.O.’s introduction in Buffalo, (and I have no idea what his name was) the guy speaking with TO had his arm over his shoulder the entire time? Like they were old buds or something? Maybe it was just me, but I found that a bit odd. He did manage to smile for the entire duration.
Good luck in Buffalo in T.O. — best I can do.
haha that takes care of one afc team we are competing with
No matter his talents on the field…. the rest of it is destructive. I am glad to see that he signed a contract…. very surprised it was not for the RAIDERS (hate them). And then to read that the BILLS wasted 6.5mil not smart. Oh well better them than us. We will take our time and we will field the better TEAM.
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