T.O. suspended by the Eagles, official thead.

[SunMo]

After late games they do it later in the day. After MNF games they just wait until Wednesday because they end so late.

i thought about that, but the weird thing is that the PC was scheduled for noon, and they moved it back to 3pm.  if they wanted to have it later, I'm sure they just would have said so yesterday or earlier in the year.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Well we'll see...maybe they're waiting to introduce another extension or two?

[SunMo]

Well we'll see...maybe they're waiting to introduce another extension or two?

TO?

[Mad-Lad]

Well we'll see...maybe they're waiting to introduce another extension or two?

TO?

the word was "extension", not execution.

[Rome]

I have a framed piece of memoribilia from last year's NFC Champion Eagles team in my office.  After this latest fiasco, I've decided to make a minor change to it.  Here it is:

BEFORE:




AFTER:

[MDS]

you should draw a crappy picture of wilbur on that piece of paper

[rjs246]

you should draw a crappy picture of wilbur on that piece of paper

Like this?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Get a pic of Reggie Brown on thre, Romey.

[MURP]

lol, nice photoshop job there Romey. 

[Cerevant]

Wow.  Peter King actually makes sense, complete with admonishment to Michael Irvin.

PK makes the point, but I don't think he (or anyone else) really has a clear picture of how far gone TO is.  I really think he's mentally disturbed - it isn't just that he refuses to accept any responsibility, but he is severly paranoid.  I wonder if his upbringing twisted his mind somehow - I remeber the story about how his mom wouldn't let him ride his bike anywhere but up and down the driveway.  His social awareness and sensitivity warped by his childhood isolation and amplified by the enablers he's surrounded himself with.

What really hit me was watching him this weekend.  When the 100 TD thing came up, the Eagles said that they "Do not recognize individual milestones".  This wasn't a record, it was a milestone.  Still, the birds might have done something if they hadn't already recognized his 100 TD (combined) already.  Might it have been nice to give him a nod & flash something up on the scoreboard?  Sure, but I digress...

When TO talked about this in interviews he said "My publicist [Kim Etheredge] talked to the head PR guy, and he made an excuse about [how] they didn't recognize it, or they didn't realize it was coming up," Owens said. "But I know that was a blatant lie. If it would have been somebody else, they probably would have popped fireworks around the stadium."  Look at the difference - the Eagles were saying that they don't make a big deal over individuals, especially "milestones".  TO thinks they intentionally ignored him, and lied to him and his publicist about it.  He simply exists in a different world than the rest of us.

[Rome]

Get a pic of Reggie Brown on thre, Romey.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Nice!

[MURP]

  

I needed that laugh.

[PhillyPhreak54]

 

But Reggie cut his dreads. So you gotta have him with a fade and the chinstrap beard thing.

By the way...from PFT.com:

T.O. NOT TO G.O. TODAY



There's a rumor making that rounds that the Eagles plan to announce at a 3:00 p.m. press conference on Monday they will release receiver Terrell Owens.



We're told that it's not going to happen.



On the surface, it doesn't make sense to cut him.  As a vested veteran, Owens would still get the remainder of his $3.5 million salary.



With eight of 17 weeks remaining, that's $1.64 million in free money for Owens.  Even if his contract is claimed by another team through the waiver system (unlikely), he's still eligible for the remainder of his salary from the Eagles as termination pay, pursuant to Article XXIII of the CBA.



A player can forfeit his right to termination pay only if the team has provided him with a written warning that he is failing to exhibit the level of good faith effort required from the club.  Even then, the matter would be subject to a grievance.



The far better course, as several league insiders believe, is to impose the four-week suspension on Owens, fight over whether he gets his pay for those games, and then deactivate him for the rest of the season and send him home on paid leave, like the Bucs did with Keyshawn Johnson in 2003.

[BigEd76]

What rumor?