After nearly a decade of performing “Pop Goes the Weasel” the Buffalo Bills stunned their fan base and all of pro football Saturday by setting off a mega-explosion.
The team with which the term “impact player” had become nearly extinct signed the player everyone agrees is loaded with impact, both of the negative and positive variety—the man almost everyone had agreed had made himself an untouchable free agent.
This is a sentence I thought I’d never write:
T. O., Terrell Owens, the one-man parade, is now a Buffalo Bill.
Will it upset team chemistry?Who cares? After what the ticket buyers have been watching since the turn of the century, they were tired of team chemistry that remained as placid as instant pudding.
Will Owens make coaching life difficult for Dick Jauron? Maybe Jauron needs a more difficult coaching life. It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if T. O. screamed at the skipper when he goes into his Hamlet number instead of throwing his red-challenge flag.
For that matter, the Bills’ blockers could use something that would make them angry at someone.
Could it turn out that Owens is so difficult Bills’ management will send him home to contemplate the inside of a doughnut and perform calisthenics in his driveway, just as the Philadelphia Eagles once did? To quote Dick Cheney, “So?” The Bills could have sent three-quarters of their team home to stay for the last two months of the 2008 season and it would have been a relief.
Now let’s look at the bright side. No matter what Owens does here, positive or zany, owner Ralph Wilson won’t react like Jerry Jones of the Cowboys, Jeffrey Lurie of Philadelphia or Denise DeBartolo York of the 49ers did to his antics. Ralph is 90. He’ll be 91 next October. He has seen it all, good, bad or indifferent. He will take Owens with a grain of salt or a belly laugh. Besides, at 90 a good nap will fix just about anything.
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Originally Posted by ddaryl
