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Essay on Terrell Owens –Victim
Terrell Eldorado Owens, popularly referred to as T.O. is a perennial All-Pro American football wide receiver, who was deactivated for most of the 2005 season by the Philadelphia Eagles due primarily to behavior stemming from a contract dispute.
Terrell Owens is at the center of the NFL's biggest off-season controversy but that's just business as usual for a guy who is perhaps the fittest, best also a supersize mystery. At the moment he is the happiest and the most prospering man. The photographer's lens and all eyes in a cavernous Atlanta studio are trained on his impressively chiseled frame, the result of years of obsessive late-night lifting sessions. The sounds of hip-hop duo Blackalicious spill quick and quirky from a nearby ipod. As the camera clicks at a steady beat, Owens flexes, his six-pack abs becoming a seven-, eight-, nine-pack.
Even due to all this things are never that simple in T.O's universe. When it comes to the five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver of the Philadelphia Eagles, even his name is complicated. Owens speaks schizophrenically about being two people at once. There's Terrell Owens, the once skinny, picked-on shy kid raised protectively by his mother and devout grandmother in a working-class Alabama town, where everyone he knew worked too much for too little at the local textile mill. And then there's T.O., the flamboyant, outspoken gridiron superstar who says and does what he wants, bristling at NFL rules he deems oppressive. The struggle between these dual personalities is what keeps Owens in the headlines and at the center of controversy.
Although Owens is recognized as one of the most dominant receivers in the NFL today, he is also known for being a troublesome, high-maintenance player on and off the field. While he is generally dependable on the field, he has developed a reputation for causing controversies with teammates, coaches, opposing players, and fans. Even so....
