Wednesday, September 27, 2006
T.O. Much
At this point, I think we'd be remiss not to mention the alleged T.O suicide attempt. His people (which include Deion Sanders, which speaks volumes) are insisting that it was accidental, or just a bad reaction to the medication. What do I think? I honestly don't know and hesitate to speculate.
T.O. has been a world-class ass for the past six seasons, at least, but this is potentially serious business. I said this earlier half-jokingly, but I'm starting to give it more weight: I think T.O. is taking on a lot of Mike Tyson-like sensibilities. It's easy to dismiss these guys are narcissists, a#@holes, cancers or lunatics, but both have something to them. Both came from odd backgrounds and rose to the top of their sport -- all while maintaining a rogue public image.
Could it just be that both are exceptionally talented -- and surprisingly smart in a non-bookish sense -- but really troubled guys who never got help and surrounded themselves with bad people? It's a little reductionist (if that's a word), but it could be. Or I could be giving them both far too much credit for dominating headlines for the past decade.
T.O. has been a world-class ass for the past six seasons, at least, but this is potentially serious business. I said this earlier half-jokingly, but I'm starting to give it more weight: I think T.O. is taking on a lot of Mike Tyson-like sensibilities. It's easy to dismiss these guys are narcissists, a#@holes, cancers or lunatics, but both have something to them. Both came from odd backgrounds and rose to the top of their sport -- all while maintaining a rogue public image.
Could it just be that both are exceptionally talented -- and surprisingly smart in a non-bookish sense -- but really troubled guys who never got help and surrounded themselves with bad people? It's a little reductionist (if that's a word), but it could be. Or I could be giving them both far too much credit for dominating headlines for the past decade.
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At first glance, I was nodding along with your T.O./Tyson comparison, but after thinking a little longer, I don't know if it's really accurate. T.O. has been disruptive, but until today (again, truth of the situation TBD) his disruptions have been clearly linked to self interest. T.O. gets itchy when he's trying to get paid or get attention. Tyson, as any number of YouTube montages can confirm, was often crazy for the sake of crazy, what with the eating your children and threatening to do things to to other men until they loved him and telling female reporters that he doesn't talk to women with whom he doesn't "fornicate" (his actual word choice).
That's a fair point. Owens does lack Tyson's flair for the unintentionally comedic, and leave it to T.O. to make a crazy, child-eating fornicator look lovable (or as lovable as a man with a Maori face tattoo can get)
One more T.O. tidbit: The 'Nator was appalled by his publicist's incompetence, particularly when she referred to "a man of his statue." Nator also perceptively said that Joey Porter's dogs, pictured in SI's football preview, looked dangerous. She was right: Last week, they got loose and killed a MINIATURE HORSE!!! I don't know how big a miniature horse is, but those must be some pretty nasty dogs.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06264/723752-54.stm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06264/723752-54.stm
The dog-eats-horse thing was a big topic of conversation this weekend. Can you imagine walking in on that??!! Must have been gruesome.
TO's publicist was awful. She was actually dumb enough to imply that Owens couldn't be depressed because he makes $25 mil. Between her and Rosenhaus, it's pretty easy to see where TO jumped the tracks.
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TO's publicist was awful. She was actually dumb enough to imply that Owens couldn't be depressed because he makes $25 mil. Between her and Rosenhaus, it's pretty easy to see where TO jumped the tracks.
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