Owens, who did not play in the NFL last season, is either trying to hype the Wranglers' upcoming season. Or hype himself. Or, perhaps, both.
Here's part of what he told the radio station:
"I'm gonna have fun with it [playing in the IFL]. I'm using this as a platform to keep myself in shape. The business end of it is something that intrigued me, being a co-owner with the team. This is me transitioning to life after football. I feel I'm physically fit and can play at a productive level to where I can play a couple of more years in the National Football League. That's what I'm pushing for. I'm not going to give up hope just because I'm 38 and just had a knee injury.
"I think a lot of why I probably didn't play this year, everybody keeps talking about the 'character' issues. The last 2 or 3 years, relatively, I was quiet, knowing that everybody was saying that I had a character issue, I'm disruptive, there's a lot of hype that comes with me, they're saying I'm a distraction here and there. That's all hearsay. If you ask a bunch of my teammates, a lot of it is basically blown out of proportion, the media making me into a fall guy. Overall, will I ever admit that I was a bad teammate? Never. I wasn't a bad teammate. Was I disruptive? No, I wasn't disruptive."
Good teammate? Not disruptive?
T.O. must have forgotten about the circus tent he pitched in Philadelphia, and his relationaship with a quarterback named Donovan McNabb.
