T.O. fearing fade route
BECAUSE WE GENERALLY like to reserve this section of the People Paper for comic relief, here's the latest laugher: T.O. is concerned that the reason he is yet to sign on the dotted line of an NFL contract is due in large part to teams perceiving him as a troublemaker.
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BECAUSE WE GENERALLY like to reserve this section of the People Paper for comic relief, here's the latest laugher:
T.O. is concerned that the reason he is yet to sign on the dotted line of an NFL contract is due in large part to teams perceiving him as a troublemaker.
According to an Associated Press report, the receiver - seeking his fourth team in 6 years - feels that it's not his slumping numbers over that time period that have general managers wary, but the soap opera that has become his life.
"There were a number of times where, prior, I probably would have reacted, said something I wasn't supposed to say," Owens said. "[But in Buffalo], I really had some restraint, very patient."
As in he didn't show any dismay this time around by doing sit-ups in his driveway, or display his affection by sobbing like a seventh-grader.
His concern is that he is being classed, mainly by the media, within the lot of polarizing players such as Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger and former teammate in Dallas, Adam "Pacman" Jones - and that's just not fair.
"Some of the golden boys that they kind of highlight throughout the course of the season, those are the guys that are getting in trouble," he said. "Somehow, I get lumped into those topics, which blows my mind. I've never been in any trouble. I know right from wrong. I try to make the right choices and judgments when I'm out in public."
It remains to be seen whether T.O. will don his fifth different uniform in 15 NFL seasons later this year, but one thing's for sure, whether he does or not T.O. will make sure you know all about it.
Off without a ball hitch
Last weekend welcomed the annual Redneck Games in East Dublin, Ga. The one-day event, which debuted following the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, featured competitions in mud diving, bobbing for pigs feet and toilet seat tossin'. There was even an armpit noise-making contest. The festivities kicked off with the lighting of the "beer can torch," a stack of Budweiser cans linked together to support a flame induced by God only knows what.
- Kerith Gabriel