Could it be? Did Terrell Owens actually make a respectable point in an interview? Yes, he certainly did. He touched upon a subject that has often been unwillingly at the forefront of our minds — the Brett Favre saga. T.O. told CSNPhilly.com, via Pro Football Talk, that Favre has been given a free pass with his selfish antics and the same would not happen if Owens, Ochocinco, or many others demonstrated the same behavior year after year.
Had it been one of us doing some of the same things, pulling these stunts that Brett Favre has done the last two or three years, then we would be labeled ‘not a team player,’ ‘selfish,’ and these are times where you want your guys to be in camp, bonding with your teammates, learning the plays, going through the whole team concept just like everybody else,” Owens said, via our friends at CSNPhilly.com. “And now it’s like, yeah, he’s set himself above team standards.”
There’s a first time for everything. Although Batman is giving Favre more media attention by talking about it, I couldn’t agree more. Maybe it’s his age, the consecutive games started streak, or the Missouri “country boy” attitude. Whatever the case, Favre doesn’t receive half as much scrutiny for his annual chirade as someone like T.O. would. People have a tendency to treat him as though he’s above the team. He missed all of OTAs and training camp and still has his starting job waiting for him.
You could argue that Favre has earned that right and T.O. hasn’t by being a loud mouth, but the point remains. Favre does what he does because he doesn’t want to attend training camp. He leaves his teammates in limbo and it doesn’t get more selfish than that. More members of the media need to acknowledge that.
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T.O. takes aim at Brett Favre [ProFootballTalk]
