Posted on 1/15/2008 10:55:35 AM

Sports Betting Action - Rose’s Rant

By Mike Rose

I couldn’t help but giggle just a bit when I saw the interviews in the press conference after the New York/Dallas game. There he was, Mr. Terrell Owens himself showing an emotional side that he hadn’t let out of the bag his entire career. “It’s not fair he proclaimed. You can’t pin the loss on Romo’s trip to Mexico, We lost as a team!” I couldn’t agree with him more, but my jaw slammed the top of the table in front of me when I heard it come out of his mouth. I stared in bewilderment at the TV expecting Ashton Kutcher to jump in front of me and fervidly proclaim that I’d been punk’d.

Isn’t this the same TO that pulled a number of temper tantrums on the sidelines in San Francisco when he wasn’t getting the ball? I’ll never forget him dancing around and yelling like a spoiled little rich kid in front of his Offensive Coordinator. He had no problem letting it be known that Philadelphia had no shot of winning if they didn’t get the ball to him on a consistent enough basis for his liking. He was often found criticizing teammate/QB Donovan McNabb saying he’d rather have a number of other QB’s in the league throwing him the ball, and that statement caused a rift in the locker room that didn’t subside until he was shipped to Dallas. Also, don’t forget about the apparent suicide attempt gone a rye that had some chick affiliated with him stating that he has millions of reasons not to off himself. That statement made me sick then, and I think I just threw up in my mouth as I typed it again.

Maybe this year was different for the much-maligned Terrell Owens. Maybe TO grew up as a professional athlete, and more importantly, as a man. That being said, it was too out of leftfield to see him up on every plasma in the sports bar crying. He hasn’t earned the right to be the spokesman for his team after a big loss. This guy will always be labeled a primadonna and only out for himself. Who knows, maybe TO knows his time in this league is about to expire and he wanted to dupe the rest of the country into thinking he really wasn’t that guy we’ve watched for close to the last decade. Maybe he wants to follow in the footsteps of Michael Irvin and company all the way to Bristol for a nice paying gig on a football show where he can stay in the public’s view for as long as he chooses. Either way, I’m not buying the emotional TO for one second. There’s always a method to his madness and that belief holds 100% true in this instance as well.

I’ve had just about enough of this Roger Clemens fiasco as well. If he really wants us to believe he only took injections of B12 and lidocaine (painkiller) he needs to sell crazy someplace else…we’re all stocked up here. In a time when a number of professional baseball players decades younger than him were shooting up to boost their games, how was it that he was still able to excel and carry his weight alongside the rest of the amped up league?

It’s quite simple. What his former trainer, Brian McNamee, stated in the Mitchell Report is 100% true. He told the Mitchell Commission that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with steroids and human growth hormone 16-21 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

Listening to the taped conversation between him and Clemens shortly after this story blew up only solidifies my stance. You could hear McNamee asking what Clemens wanted him to do, and all you heard Clemens say over and over again was that he wanted the truth to be told. It was almost as if McNamara was secretly asking Roger if he wanted to strike a deal amongst themselves quite like the deal Barry Bonds and his trainer Greg Anderson did before his first stint in the clink.

February 13th will be a very interesting day for this story when both Clemens and McNamee sit before Congress and testify under oath. I’m hoping more occurs from this meeting than when the non-English speaking Sammy Sosa, the amnesia suffering Mark Mcgwire, and the stone cold lying Rafael Palmeiro stood before Congress. Either way, Clemens is going to be the major loser when it’s all said and done. He already said he doesn’t give a darn about the Hall of Fame, and he avoided George Mitchell’s investigation while compiling evidence for the report. If all he really wanted was his name cleared, he should have been beating down Mitchell’s door proclaiming his innocence before the report was released to the public. Instead, he didn’t return any phone calls or e-mails, and allowed his lawyers to handle everything until his lame interview on 60 minutes.

This will most definitely tarnish his resume for Cooperstown, but the general public might be easier on him if he just came out and accepted the fact that he’s finally been caught. The more time that passes without accepting responsibility for these actions will only make it that much harder for him and his family. You can’t question Roger’s work ethic, but you have to question his obstinacy and wonder if it will tarnish him forever….

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