by David J. Chavez
Daily Lobo
It's the fifth week in the NFL and, surprisingly, Terrell Owens is still catching passes for the Dallas Cowboys.
Owens still hasn't run Drew Bledsoe out of Dallas after his mediocre performance so far this season. Dallas coach Bill Parcells has stuck by his quarterback after numerous sacks and interceptions that have made Bledsoe look as stiff as a statue in a museum of modern art.
After the loss to Philadelphia on Sunday, Owens is on the verge of blowing up like an offensive lineman at the Nathan's hot dog eating competition.
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According to a stadium employee in a report from NFL.com, Owens ran into the locker room yelling and asking why the Cowboys even bothered signing him in the
offseason.
It is shocking it took all the way to week five for T.O. to start bashing the quarterback and criticizing his team.
The loud-mouth wide receiver is making an effort to curve his negative image by releasing a children's book called Little T Learns to Share. Could this be for real, or is it just another stunt by Owens?
The stunt seems more plausible in the traveling circus that is Owens' life. And would anybody
really want their kids learning about sharing from the stingiest person this side of Ebenezer Scrooge?
T.O. and the Cowboys have maintained their sanity for this long because of the distractions of a broken finger and drug overdose. These issues have indulged Owens' insatiable thirst for media coverage, so he hasn't had to draw attention to himself by going public with issues concerning the team.
It's surprising to think anybody was convinced that the self-proclaimed God's gift to earth could actually try to kill himself. Even somebody who craves the limelight as much as T.O. wouldn't do that for media coverage, would he?
No, not T.O., who has 25 million reasons to stay alive, according to his publicist.
One reason is not Drew "The Statue" Bledsoe, who had three interceptions in Sunday's game. The last one came on a pass in the end zone that could have tied the game in the final minute. It ended up in the hands of Lito Sheppard and going 102 yards in the opposite
direction.
What was supposed to be Owens' chance to redeem himself on the field and show up his old team turned into ranting and raving on the sidelines.
So for all those fans that thought T.O. was born again, Billy Graham-style, to be a respectable role model and athlete - surprise.
