2662080, you're purposely ignoring a pretty important fact.....
Posted by Warren Coolidge, Fri Jun-08-18 01:20 PM
Terrell Owens relationship with his teammates is fairly unique in terms of hall of fame candidates...
sure guys had off the field issues...Ray Lewis.... Lawrence Taylor...etc....
pointing to those types and saying they were first ballot so TO should be first ballot is completely missing the point...
Terrell's relationship with is teammates ..... publically insulting and attacking 2 different QBs...2 different teams.... publically insulting and attacking Ray Lewis character, after changing his mind about joining the Ravens....
you see.... YOU may choose to ignore these factors regarding his hall of fame voting.... but to pretend as if they play no part in how the NFL community views him is just simply ridiculous....
fans of TO want to ignore that..and pretend as if it plays no part in whether he got in or not..
but it did play part....
and at the end of the day...his shunning the hall of fame is in the same tradition of his attacking others, to prop up himself, or to make himself into a victim....
MEN don't respect that in other men...particularly men who are supposed to be brethren in battle, so to speak...
go ahead and speak about his numbers...his accomplishments..certainly hall of fame worthy....first ballot even..
but this dude was a selfish poison in a locker room..with his teammates...unwarranted public attacks......
what other former player had that baggage going into hall of fame voting??? again..that's not off the field stuff...that's inside the family stuff...and TO had that cloud over him...and he still does.
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