The sports editor of the Wichita Falls paper describes the t.o. deal.
The sports editor of the Wichita Falls paper (the Times Record News) is a man named Nick Gholson. In general he is brusque bordering on cantankerous, but the man is a damn good writer. He is an old school sportswriter, and there are times his writing is absolutely superlative. His column today is a good example. It is about the t.o. deal. I read it after my online discussion about the deal. I was really glad to see someone else call him a punk. Gholson is somewhere around 60, but he is the type that would go right up to t.o. and call him a punk and not hesitate to throw down if t.o. got upset.
DALLAS - If you're sitting there this morning drinking whisky as you read the paper through bloodshot eyes, you just might understand this Jerry Jones-Terrell Owens deal.
Or if you've been up only an hour or so and have already smoked half a pack of cigarettes, you and Mr. Jones are riding in the same boat.
You're all addicts.
T.O. is just Jerry's next snort of coke.
He has to have him - can't you see?
The owner of the Dallas Cowboys needs that big spotlight just like some of you need to light up that next Marlboro.
We saw it first when he fired Tom Landry and brought in Jimmy Johnson. Then there was the Deion Sanders deal. Later came Bill Parcells. And now it's this punk T.O.
Jerry is also addicted to winning Super Bowls, and he hasn't had that fix in 10 years. He sees T.O. as a quick solution - his best and quite possibly his last chance to hold another Lombardi Trophy.
T.O. is a talented wide receiver, maybe the best in the business. But there are no guarantees he will win you a Super Bowl. He has never won one for anybody else.
It's a much better bet that he will go bonkers and destroy the Cowboys from inside their own locker room.
Just ask the Eagles.
But Jerry seems blind to that.
Just like the alcoholic doesn't see his liver disintegrating. Or the smoker who can't see that spot on his lung.
- Nick Gholson
posted by WCharles @ 3/19/2006 10:18:00 PM
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To be honest, except for last season's brief dust up with Bledsoe, Keyshawn was well behaved. He also was very productive. And you know he's going to be motivated and would love to play Dallas twice a year. Keyshawn, Plaxico, and Shockey could be a fantastic combination. As a new Giants fan, I am intrigued. :-)
I get the feeling that the fact that Coughlin was able change enough to relate to the players and yet not change his overall philosophy and approach bodes well for the Three Musketeers scenario. What made Keyshawn upset last year was not that he was not getting the ball, but rather that in situations where he could help the team, he was not getting the ball and instead the play was going to players who were not open. And he had a valid point. In other words, Keyshawn is much more of a team player than he was even three years ago. And Keyshawn has been more behaved under Parcells, and Coughlin seems similar to Parcells.
Now that Keyshawn has signed with Carolina, are there any other free agents the Giants are considering?
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