{"id":97,"date":"2005-11-07T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-11-07T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T03:38:08","slug":"owens-wont-return-to-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/07\/owens-wont-return-to-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Owens Won&#8217;t Return to Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud <strong>Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Andy Reid<\/strong> for sacking hot-<s>shit<\/s>shot <strong>Terrell Owens<\/strong> for his on-going bad attitude and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,174821,00.html\">FOXNews.com &#8211; Reid: Owens Won&#8217;t Return to Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PHILADELPHIA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Terrell Owens can take his touchdowns and dance somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The tempestuous star receiver won&#8217;t return to the Philadelphia Eagles this season \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or probably ever \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because of &#8220;a large number of situations that accumulated over a long period of time,&#8221; coach Andy Reid said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Owens was suspended for Sunday night&#8217;s 17-10 loss at Washington, and will remain suspended for three more games without pay. After that, the Eagles plan to deactivate him for the rest of the season.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time &#8211; the gutless <strong>San Francisco 49ers<\/strong> staff let Owens&#8217; bad antics go on for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reid said the outspoken player &#8220;had been warned repeatedly about the consequences of his actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave Terrell every opportunity to avoid this outcome,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Owens was suspended Saturday, two days after he said the Eagles showed &#8220;a lack of class&#8221; for not publicly recognizing his 100th career touchdown catch in a game on Oct. 23. In the same interview with ESPN.com on Thursday, Owens said the Eagles would be better off with Green Bay&#8217;s Brett Favre at quarterback instead of Donovan McNabb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The NFL in general should take a critical look at deteriorating sportsmanship in the league. Every week lately, Damsel and I are appalled at the shenanigans and antics performed by many so-called professional athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: As you might expect, the NFL Players Union has filed a grievance in the Owens case. This is just another example of organized labor taking the wrong side of an issue; instead of demanding excellence, they condone bad behavior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrell Owens can take his touchdowns and dance somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}