The face of ignorance and selfishness...
1. He signed a 7 year deal with 8.5 million up front, played 2/3 of a season and one (albeit heroic) playoff game, and now says, "Mo' money or you have mo' problems!"
2. He called out Donovan magnify for getting, "tired and sick" at the end of the Super Bowl. Apparently T.O. thinks he can throw the ball to himself too. And he obviously doesn't appreciate that Donovan was willing to restructure, defer money, and take his game to another level to get the Eagles to the Super Bowl.
3. He tried to explain his contract demands as not greedy or selfish and asked people to examine his stature in the game. Okay let's do that: a healthy Randy Moss is better than you, Marvin Harrison is at least as good as you, so I guess that makes you number 3. If you're going to demand that your team pony up more money and call 7 years 40 something million a "sub standard" deal YOU ARE VERY FUCKING SELFISH.
4. He stopped just short of the, "I have to feed my kids," line but still went as far as, "I'm just trying to take care of my family." Your family was taken care of with your signing bonus, forever, you never have to play another game and you kids will eat steak you donkey.
5. He didn't listen to Andy Reid, his coach and one of the classiest guys in sports who told him, "Don't go down this road."
5a. He's trying to use the Baltimore, Philadelphia trade issues (which he created!) as an excuse for renegotiating a deal that he was "forced into." I'm sure Baltimore would have paid you more...
5b. He's alienating one of the greatest fan bases in sports that had openly accepted him and his antics because he was winning. Now he's looking them in the face and saying, "It's all about the money."
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5 Other Things:
1. ESPN's new round-robin show "The Trifecta" which gives 20 minutes each to "Baseball Tonight", "Outside the Lines", and "NFL Live". Great idea in principle, bad idea because it's freaking April and Sean "My Arrogance Oozes from My Very Existence" Salisbury is still brow beating audiences across the nation.
2. Tom Brady on SNL. This is like that old football adage about the pass, "Three things can happen and two of them are bad." He could be funny, he could be really awful and awkwardly not funny, or he could be so awful that he will find himself as the butt of actually funny mockery in the future. Plus, with the Johnny Damon madness right now the timing just sucks.
3. What amazing advances in technology have reached the vending machines of the world to allow them to take nickels and dimes, that have not reached parking meters and laundry machines? Please, explain!
4. The vilification of the Red Sox fan who had the altercation with Gary Sheffield last night. I know we're all a little hyper-sensitive about fan interference after the brawl in Detroit but if you actually look at this tape the guy was pulling his hand back and wasn't even looking at Sheffield when he grazed him. I don't blame Sheffield because he didn't know that either but this guy did nothing wrong.
5. The fact that I actually have to agree with something Skip Bayless wrote (see Page 2 today).
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