During the offseason of football I was estatic and I mean estatic to hear that Terrell Owens was coming to my hometown Dallas, Texas to play for my beloved Dallas Cowboys. I thought I had finally gotten my cake and was about to get to eat it too! I was a huge Terrell Owens fan and a lifetime Dallas Cowboys fan. I thought this was the puzzle piece that was going to bring us back to our "Glory Days". I knew we really didn't have a quarterback, but Terrell could make it happen. Hell I could throw him the ball and he could make it happen. So I was one of the few that totally supported Jerry Jones and Bill Parcells in this pick-up. I withstood the injury in the preseason, thinking he's strong he'll rebound from it without a doubt. I withstood the first controversial comments he made, because that was one of the reasons I loved the man. I mean he could talk all the smack he wanted and actually walk the walk, alot of men can't do that. I withstood the hand injury. Then came the suicide attempt, or was it a suicide attempt newsstory of the week. Then came some more of his comments. Then there was the "napping" endzone celebration. Then some more comments. The birthday party. Etc. Etc. I defended him to my family, my friends, my co-workers, anything that would listen to me. Then this Sunday morning I woke up with a bruise on my ####. You know why? I officially fell off the "Terrell Bandwagon". I'm done. I watched the interview with DeAngelo Hall after the game Saturday and thought, hummm bitter grapes. I didn't believe DeAngelo Hall. Then shortly after I watched the interview with the man himself, Terrell Owens. I watched him admit to spitting in Hall's face, I watched him poorly apologize, I watched him try to justify it, and watched him act as if it was no big deal. I felt so stupid. This man disrespected a fellow athlete in the most disgracing way. He made himself look horrible and lose all my respect and I think he portrayed a black light on the Cowboys as well. So the NFL fines him $35,000. Seeing as how he makes a little more than $296,000 a game I'm sure this really hit him hard. HAH! So what lesson is he going to learn exactly? Nothing. This is where I think Jerry Jones and the Cowboys organization need to take a stand and do something about it themselves. So here I am with my beloved team clinching a spot in the playoffs, and an out of control, sel####estructing, direspectful spitter that is supposed to be leading us there?? Talk about a bittersweet double-edged sword. Thats all I got.
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