Owens errs in telling his Super Bowl story
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - There was no "secret waiver."
In the midst of stating the case for a new contract he has been trying to get from the Eagles, disgruntled wide receiver Terrell Owens told a Super Bowl story that wasn't true.
"What really has me mad is that I feel I'm being disrespected," Owens said during an ESPN interview last night. "Everybody is saying I'm not putting the team first. I rehabbed my butt off for 61/2, 7 weeks for the team. Nobody knows that I had to sign a secret waiver to relieve them from any liability just in case I got hurt in that game."
Owens' former agent, David Joseph, said shortly after the Super Bowl that his client was not asked to sign any insurance waiver by the Eagles before playing against the New England Patriots in the NFL title game. Owens played in the game despite the fact that he still had a surgical screw in the right ankle that had been operated on six weeks earlier.
"That's absolutely not true," Eagles president Joe Banner said when asked about Owens' waiver statement. "We never discussed it with him. The funny part is, we discussed it internally, but we decided that if he was willing to take the risk to try to win the Super Bowl, then we should be willing to take the same risk."
It's possible Mark Myerson, the surgeon who operated on Owens' ankle, made him sign a waiver. Myerson refused to give Owens medical clearance to play in the game.
Dude is digging his own grave, moment by moment.