Wednesday, November 23, 2005

It's over it's finally over!

Today the arbirtrator upheld the suspension of Terrell Owens, and it couldn't have come soon enough. Now maybe the media will focus in on what is really happening on the feild in the NFL. Since the season started it has been TO overload and it has been non-stop. I know that it will be more TO this upcoming weekend but lets hope that the insanity will stop there. Gives us a little break would you, because as soon as the free agent signing period starts it will be TO watch again. The more that he is talked about, in the media, the more his ego is stroked and he has an outlet to act the way that he does.

The good thing that came from this is that the owners and the league have taken control and said that they were not going to allow one man disrupt the whole league. The league by far is bigger than one player and that is why the NFL is so successful. It doesn't put the spotlight on one player, i.e. Michael Jordan and the NBA, rather they havedeciced to keep things organic and moving forward. You are not going to see a decline in ratings and interest when one player retires, like they saw in the NBA after Jordan. Look how long it has taken the NBA to regenerate itself. They are a players league and the NFL is a team and organization league. It is about the team not the player. That is why today's ruling is so important for the NFL. In ruling the way in which he did, the arbirtrator made a statement to the NFL players: You will not hold the NFL and the teams hostage, so you can get your way.

TO failed to realize that he signed a contract and in the US if you sign a contract, then you have to live by it. If I sign a contract I have to live by it and I am not afforded the same lee-way that he has, because he can catch a ball. Maybe TO learned a few lessons today, one don't hire Drew Rosenhouse as your agent and two when you sign your name to a contract you have to honer because that is what being a man is about. What am I crazy? I am sorry I just had a momentary lapse in thinking. We are talking about the man nicknamed Me O.

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