NFL Off Topic

[KG]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Come on.

TO wants to punish the voters, fine. He should have gone to the ceremony and used his time to rip 'em a new one. But to disrespect his fellow inductees as well as everyone who has been enshrined before him (none of whom had anything to do with TO not being a first ballot inductee, btw)? That's as "petty" as it gets.

I would have liked to see that actually. Especially when they try pull him off stage Apollo style or cut his mic off lol.

[jfsolo]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Seeing as how an induction ceremony is not an important thing, it's just pomp and circumstance, fluff, the hall reciprocating TO's FU move with one of their own seems about right. There are no good guys here.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I have no problem with what the NFL is doing, honestly.

He doesn't want to be there. Fine. The hubbub was dumb and Owens is free to do as he wishes.

But if he chooses not to be there and do something entirely separate for whatever reasons he has and is so public about doing it the way he's doing it, then why should he still be acknowledged in the same fashion as the ones who are attending?

[Hooe]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Regardless of who's right and who's wrong - I kinda think that everyone involved is wrong and stupid - this whole hub-bub does have us talking about Terrell Owens again.

It's a fitting way to honor him, really: simultaneously a great player and a lightning rod for media controversies. It's undeniably T.O.

[jake44np]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I heard a good comparison on this last night.
Imagine your work planning and dinner to honor you and a few of your co-workers for many years of great work.
Then you tell them you are not going to show up.
They you are going to celebrate you many years of great work somewhere other than where they have the event planned.
You think your work is still going to honor you?
Yeah not a chance!
I have zero problem with what the HOF is doing.
And I have zero doubt that one day he will wish he would have attended.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I don't think anybody would expect him to be honored on the same level or with the same respect as those attending, but to not include one of the inductees at all? To me that just makes "the issue" even bigger and brings more attention to it.

The whole thing is kind of silly, but it's made sillier by the HOF's response to TO.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Me thinks he’ll be fine in that regard as far as having regrets.

[TripleCrown9]

Re: NFL Off Topic

DeMarco Murray is retiring.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I wish people would stop trying to equate regular *** jobs to professional athletes careers.

The comparison doesn't work considering most of us don't have people paying to see us do our jobs. Nobody is following our careers and our jobs aren't putting together elaborate video packages/montages for millions of people to see it to honor us.

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I heard a good comparison on this last night.
Imagine your work planning and dinner to honor you and a few of your co-workers for many years of great work.
Then you tell them you are not going to show up.
They you are going to celebrate you many years of great work somewhere other than where they have the event planned.
You think your work is still going to honor you?
Yeah not a chance!
I have zero problem with what the HOF is doing.
And I have zero doubt that one day he will wish he would have attended.

This is a strange example but I'll bite:

If you worked somewhere for 15 years, and they're throwing a retirement party or whatever, and you choose to celebrate with your family elsewhere, and they take your name off the cake and out of the pamphlet... I would definitely think that's petty. And I would tell them this is exactly why I'm celebrating with my family instead of with you guys.

[TripleCrown9]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Retiring after 15 years at a 9-5 is nowhere near the same as making the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Retiring after 15 years at a 9-5 is nowhere near the same as making the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The underlying point is if someone wants to celebrate in their own way, and the job completely erases them from the ceremony, that would be doing a lot. None of it really matters in the long run, ceremonies of this nature don't mean anything, the work is done.

[SPTO]

Re: NFL Off Topic

Man, the career of an NFL running back can be so fleeting. Murray was one helluva player for a brief stretch. At least he made some good coin i'm sure.

[mestevo]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I guess I don't really see the big deal about TO being removed from the ceremony while he's celebrating it elsewhere. What are they supposed to do, do their own footwork to find someone to talk about him on his behalf? Have someone hold up his gold jacket and reveal his bust? It's not like he's no longer going into the HOF or something.

[ggsimmonds]

Re: NFL Off Topic

I guess I don't really see the big deal about TO being removed from the ceremony while he's celebrating it elsewhere. What are they supposed to do, do their own footwork to find someone to talk about him on his behalf? Have someone hold up his gold jacket and reveal his bust? It's not like he's no longer going into the HOF or something.

That is sort of why I take issue with it. He is being inducted into the HOF, so some kind of acknowledgement during the induction ceremony is in order.