T.O. - The Day After

When first hearing of this wildly speculative story. I was skeptical but I wasn’t completely incredulous. This is an athlete who has shown himself to be so wildly insecure and starved for attention that the possibility that he would be so unhappy so as to take his own life was not, in and of itself, all that surprising.

However, after watching yesterday’s press conference, it becomes clear to me that Owens is not a man who took 35 vicoden and attempted to take his own life.

I found myself having an unusual thought yesterday as I contemplated the possibility that T.O. had actually tried to kill himself: I felt bad. As a Philadelphia Eagles fan for the better part of my functional life, I have nothing for disdain for Terrell Owens as a person. In the dictionary, next to the word “toxic”, you’ll see a picture of number 81. However, off the field matters, especially of this nature, are something entirely different. This isn’t a matter of off the field ridiculousness, it really is (or was) a matter of life and death. It’s moments like this that make you realize that athlete, no matter how much they try to differentiate themselves from those who pay to watch them, are just ordinary people with many of the same problems and afflicitions that plague all of us.

With the suicide rumor dismissed, I’m ready to get back to hating T.O.

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