Drama Queen
I’m late to the game on this, but here it is anyway. T.O. didn’t try to kill himself. His accidental overdose really was accidental.
Here’s how I know. There was no press release before hand to alert the media as to which hospital would have the honor of pumping his stomach and there were no critically stationed camera crews to capture the pill pounding live. Had this been an actual suicide attempt he would have had a two page info sheet ready when the ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital.
Owens is too big of a drama queen to let something of this caliber happen without arranging for a media blitz. Even Wilbon can tell you that. He’s a first class ass that’s consumed with the camera being on him 24/7. No way in hell he takes himself off the market while he’s still got the ability to get on the news. In fact, I’m surprised that his press conference yesterday was as laid back and sane as it was. I’m also surprised that the Cowboys let him host it on their turf and then let him practice.
That’s another clue that this thing has been blown out of proportion. If Owens showed new signs of being unstable Jones and Parcells would have put a mile of distance between them and their troubled receiver. They want to win games, but Jones is smart enough to avoid any legal complications that could cost him money. If ‘the player’ was a mental case (or at least more than the ‘Boys have agreed to let him be) he’d be back to holding photo ops in his driveway again.
This time it wasn’t a stunt, but with all the headlines and mic time that it bought him the next time might be.
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