Should Have Let This One Go, TO

More like a fumble than an incomplete pass

Last week Bags at A Cowboy Nation pointed out to me retired receiver and Hall of Fame finalist Cris Carter's comments about Dallas receiver Terrell Owens and what Cris would do with TO if Cris were in charge of Cowboys' personnel decisions: shoot him.

Well we have a story update. With a tip from Alana, senior athletes editor, TO now has his own blog at Yardbarker, a network of blogs and writers, including a few athletes, and TO's first post tackles Cris' comments.

To hilarious effect I might add and not deliberately. TO's post is a whopping 50 words and asks the musical question, what would people have thought if it was TO that said this about Cris and not Cris that said this about TO?

I can tell you the answer from most level headed football fans and that answer is that TO you are a dumbass.

In fairness though that would more or less be my answer to any question about TO posed by TO. Or anyone else for that matter.

Although it is no doubt great for Yardbarker's numbers this is a good example of what happens when celebrities try and put themselves out there in a manner bypassing the traditional media, and do it without regard to their status within the fan community.

Here TO is opening his own blog storefront, in theory trying to relate directly to the little people. What TO does not realize is that TO is not Chris Cooley or any other high profile person not known for writing or espousing opinions directly in print, TO has not put any effort into cultivating a persona that fans can find in any way favorable or relate to.

Go have a look at the comments on this post, as of this writing there were already 316 in eleven hours, a walk through them will reveal plenty of classic puerile Cowboys fans, EVEYRONE KNOWS TO IS A HOFER and ALL EAGLES FAN WILL ALWAYS HAET COWBOYS FAN (sorry, no direct links to comments on Yardbarker or else I would share with you the wonder that is Cowboys fans defending TO's honor).

The large majority of them though are along the lines of, lol you suck.

The moral of this story is as usual with TO, there is no moral to the story. Cris Carter said something stupid and instead of letting us forget it TO tried to make an issue out of it and all that came was more cromagnon debate about whether TO is teh graetest evar or the biggets ay hole in the game.



Terrell Owens dropping another one from here.