Trotter disputes T.O. claim in GQ
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Trotter disputes T.O. claim in GQ
Jeff McLane, Inquirer Staff Writer
Terrell Owens told GQ magazine that Jeremiah Trotter told him not to read the part of the Eagles-scripted letter the wide receiver was to read in 2005 that included an apology to Donovan McNabb.
Trotter called Owens' claim a "super lie" in a text message to The Inquirer on Wednesday night. He added, "I'm very upset with T.O."
The former Eagles linebacker also tweeted the following to Owens: "yo man y u lying to GQ Mag I never told u that call me ASAP!!!!!"
Below is an excerpt from the GQ article that will run in the February edition of the magazine that includes Owens' take on his infamous non-apology to McNabb after his much-publicized feud with the Eagles quarterback. The full story is here.
“To say I regret anything would be a slap in my grandmother’s face,” he says. “Are there some things I might do differently now? Sure.”
Such as?
“Some of the things in Philadelphia.” He sits back in his chair, seeming to catalog the events in his head: proclaiming that he didn’t care what fans thought of him, the locker-room tussle with his teammate Hugh Douglas, the various flare-ups with Donovan McNabb. But definitely not his attempt to renegotiate his $49 million, heavily back-loaded contract. “I was not paid competitively, and that was that,” he says. “The teams talk about how we should keep to our end of the bargain, but then they dump you at the point at which you’d actually start earning out, and that is supposed to be okay. Why don’t they need to keep up their end?”
How about the decision not to publicly apologize to McNabb for suggesting in an interview immediately after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl that the quarterback had “got tired” on the field? For a moment, he is silent. Could he actually be on the verge of admitting he made an error?
“Well, I probably should have done...,” he begins, rubbing his hand along the contours of his massive shaved dome. Then he stops himself. “No. No. Listen, I was in the locker room before the press conference, and my team captain, Jeremiah Trotter, read through that apology they wrote for me. He got to the bottom part, the part where it had the stuff about Donovan, and he did this.” Owens snatches a piece of paper from the table and rips off the bottom three inches. “This is the team leader we’re talking about; he told me not to do it.”
His only real mistake, Owens insists, was “timing. I might not have said or done things at exactly the right moment” (though it’s hard to imagine the right time to publicly dis your QB). He concedes, after some prodding, that he lacks an essential social skill that has cost him. “I am not,” he says, “a tactful person.”
You idiots. He still has his hooks in you. Even after he has been washed up for some time. You are the only people making him relevant. The rest of the league laughs at you fools that you still talk about him.— maximus- Dude must really be hurting for money. Too bad he didnt finish his contract with the Eagles. HAHAHA— urbnasty
Comment removed.- For the love of God...let it go! Who cares!?!?!?!— IGGLES1980
- Why would anybody care enough to write an article on T.O.? Oh, I did NOT read it.— billtfla
- K saru saru— wally18
- Will any of this help the Eagles win the Super Bowl this year?— AreaMan
- FAT ANDREW, JOE (COFFEE STAIN TEETH) BANNER, HOWIE(PARCHESI KING) ROSEBUD, AND JEFF (LIBERACE)LURIE WILL BRING US TO THE PROMISED LAND THIS YEAR. IF YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRY TALES.— Pete60
- Says he "doesn't care what people think," if so, then why can't he keep his big mouth shut?— AirForceZoomer
- OUR COACH WANDERING CLUELESSLY ON THE SIDELINES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WATH TO DO NEXT!!!!! HE DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO CALL!!! HOW DOES THE FAT MAN GET OFF SO EASY ???!!!— dheis
- This is such ancient history. Who really cares about T.O. anymore? He doesn't care about us.— LarsMendte2
Can't we just have another story about Spags instead of this nonsense...— tpizza- Wow, this is timely. Any word on what Tommy McDonald had to say?— maurysline
- T.O. is now in the IFL. He couldn't even make the AFL! Luckily our 2008 world champions SOUL (the only football team in Philly with a championship) didn't pick him up!— Panthro2011
- Why do people allow TO press time? Is he worthy of coverage? A person who has hurt the Eagles and his teammates...is used again as a source of misery. Why give him credibility by allowing him to have a venue for his misstatements?— envirojoe55
