Meh.
Terrell Owens is somewhat of a narcissist, based not on the times the media have jumped on him for essentially no reason but on his attitude... But I don't really care, and I do believe that I side with him on this and hope that he is successful in only speaking to the media when necessary.
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Last week, a couple of days after the Monday night loss, Owens said, "Trent has to better assess what he's seeing out there and take some shots down the field."
Owens got grilled on national talk shows, but some writers who cover the Bills locally thought Owens was on target. "I could see where he says he is misunderstood," says John Wawrow of the Associated Press in Buffalo.
Edwards did take shots downfield in last week's win, including TDs to Owens and Lee Evans.
"If they are constantly nitpicking about everything I say in an interview, and they make it into a story, I know I'm playing with a young quarterback," Owens says. "I'm not coming here trying to mess up a quarterback-receiver relationship. Now, he sees and he hears and he reads that stuff. Who knows what he's thinking?"
If Owens is guilty at times of speaking too honestly, he says that comes of growing up with a strict grandmother who impressed on him the importance of always speaking his mind.
Owens has never shown up on a police blotter.
"I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't do none of that. I drink sociably, if I do drink, you know, and I get home safely. … You are never going to see me out there beating up on no girl. No domestic violence, no nothing. No sketchy incidents … that's never going to be me. And I already know if that was me that would be like the end of me. It would be the end. And I know the first thing a lot of people (would say), 'I knew this day was going to come, been waiting on it.' "
....Pretty much.
They do love to ask the man for his opinion and then jump all over him when he gives a response, purely because the media adore creating a caricature for everyone, essentially, and then making everything they say fit into that mold, presenting it one way or another, taking things out of context and suggesting things in voice-overs. They need that story because that is what they have told the public TO is and they cannot go back on that (they never admit their wrongs; think of the Duke lacrosse rape case; no apologies there, or to anyone else they've done that to), so they ask the questions and then demonize the man when he answers honestly. It's not as though they haven't done this to most people, either; it's not like this is unique to TO, because they do it to everybody. Media manipulation of the populace is fascinating. They are only ever positive about their own, when it comes to people. I would love to take a media class eventually...
ANYWAY.
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