T/O's bruised ego
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:08 pm
So- apparently all the non-talking shite was caused because T/O was hurt when his teammates said last year that they didn't need him to make it to the superbowl... what a pussy!
(From the Daily news website)
Owens says feelings were hurt last season
ATLANTA - The remainder of Terrell Owens' ESPN interview with Michael Irvin was televised yesterday, and the wide receiver revealed that his feelings were hurt by his teammates last season while he was rehabilitating his fractured leg and severely sprained ankle.
"Once my injury occurred, I really had to endure the pain of not just physical pain," Owens said. "It was emotional pain that came with it. I had to sit on the couch and watch interviews leading up to the Super Bowl - in the playoff games.
"Guys saying that they didn't need me to win. I'm a human being and I have feelings. Going through all that, just to hear some of those players say some of those things, it really hurt me. It was more hurtful than the pain I had to endure going through rehab for six or seven weeks."
Owens suffered his leg injury Dec. 19 against the Dallas Cowboys and missed the final two regular-season games as well as the two playoff victories that got the Birds to the Super Bowl.
The wide receiver said quarterback Donovan McNabb wasn't the only Eagle saying the team could win without him.
"It was just the tone in which they expressed that 'We don't need T.O. to get to the Super Bowl,' instead of putting a more positive spin on it such as, 'We are going to win this for T.O. because we know he's rehabbing hard,' or things of that nature," Owens said. "That was never the content or context of their interviews."
The Eagles, under coach Andy Reid, have typically taken the approach that when a player goes down with an injury, the team moves on without him.
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(From the Daily news website)
Owens says feelings were hurt last season
ATLANTA - The remainder of Terrell Owens' ESPN interview with Michael Irvin was televised yesterday, and the wide receiver revealed that his feelings were hurt by his teammates last season while he was rehabilitating his fractured leg and severely sprained ankle.
"Once my injury occurred, I really had to endure the pain of not just physical pain," Owens said. "It was emotional pain that came with it. I had to sit on the couch and watch interviews leading up to the Super Bowl - in the playoff games.
"Guys saying that they didn't need me to win. I'm a human being and I have feelings. Going through all that, just to hear some of those players say some of those things, it really hurt me. It was more hurtful than the pain I had to endure going through rehab for six or seven weeks."
Owens suffered his leg injury Dec. 19 against the Dallas Cowboys and missed the final two regular-season games as well as the two playoff victories that got the Birds to the Super Bowl.
The wide receiver said quarterback Donovan McNabb wasn't the only Eagle saying the team could win without him.
"It was just the tone in which they expressed that 'We don't need T.O. to get to the Super Bowl,' instead of putting a more positive spin on it such as, 'We are going to win this for T.O. because we know he's rehabbing hard,' or things of that nature," Owens said. "That was never the content or context of their interviews."
The Eagles, under coach Andy Reid, have typically taken the approach that when a player goes down with an injury, the team moves on without him.
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