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T. O. is No. 1

What would you get if you asked bloggers to name the year's Top Sports Figure?

Terrell Owens.

Yup, Me-O, beat out Barbaro and humans from A-Rod to Zidane in winning yet another year-end poll. The idea wasn't to pick the greatest athlete of 2006. Just the most interesting one to cover.

When the instigator of this survey of three dozen wise-guy bloggers-- AOL's Jamie Mottram, aka Mr. Irrelevant -- informed Bob Costas of the results, the announcer likened it to Saddam Hussein being named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

Some of the judges' comments on their pick:

"He's given us 25 million reasons to blog." -- NFL FanHouse

"He signs with a Tuna coached team, sits on a bike on the sidelines for most of training camp, has an overdose with more theories than the JFK shooting and he writes a kid's book about sharing and apologizing." -- WBRS Sports Blog

"The one man I hope to see injured every week. An abomination of a professional sportsman."-- Paul Katcher.

"The Eagles defeating the Cowboys in the return of T.O. was one of the most hyped games Philly has seen in years." -- The 700 Level.

That last one is Philly's own Enrico Campitelli Jr. On his own site, 'Rico notes how only one of the ten sports figures he voted for cracked the top 40, and that was T. O. Admittedly, it was a Philacentric list, with Ryan Howard, Donovan McNabb, Allen Iverson and the departed Phillies catcher Sal Fasano all rating higher than the rancorous Cowboy receiver.

T.O won on the strength of folks like the Sportz Assassin, who wrote:

Who else could top this list? He made a much hyped signing with the Cowboys. He recorded a rap song about how much he hated the Eagles. He sat out most of camp with a bad hammy. He broke his finger in his second game with Dallas. He nearly overdosed on pills. He threw his QB under the bus. He cost his team an excessive celebration after a TD... then dropped the could-be game winning TD catch.

And the year's not over. Owens faces his favorite team on Christmas Day.

marty
Posted 12/12/2006 11:19:07 AM
and he will crush the eaGIRLS...

merry christmas.