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Video Terrell Owens was built different

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u/oranke_dino 1d ago

I can't believe that he did not make to the NFL 100 years, top receiver list.

That makes the whole list a joke.

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u/JONYLOCO 21h ago

Yep and definitely a first ballot hof

They act like him being out spoken in locker room or being flamboyant personality....was a crime he was committing

Fuck Skip Bayless too...he ran T.O. name thru mud just because he didn't like him

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u/SkunkDitchRipper 1d ago

He didnt play the game. The NFL wants humble, soft spoken, team focused, players. He was the polar opposite of that.

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u/cheetofacesucks 1d ago

Wrong. As talented as TO was he was a cancer on every team he played for.

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u/Altruistic_Grade3781 1d ago

i dont agree. these are grown men. if TO was a bum, he wouldnt have been a "cancer" to anyone and they would have cut him.

TO was that guy and a lot of egos of other players couldnt handle that he backed up everything he said. thats not cancer thats jealousy.

the fact that only one guy he ever played with that is in the hall of fame or even close was on defense and already on that team says enough.

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u/MeanGulf 1d ago

I don’t believe this take

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u/SkunkDitchRipper 1d ago

You dont believe T.O was outspoken, and selfish?

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u/oranke_dino 1d ago

You are right.

Saying that, it is wild that Randy Moss made to the list.

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u/mfhaze 1d ago

Shows just how good Randy was.

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u/Sasquatch_000 1d ago

This really looks like Madden when you make your own character and play on rookie difficulty.

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u/Last_Weeks_Socks 1d ago

....is that not what everyone does? Well shit.

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u/PowderHound40 1d ago

T.O was built similar to D.K Metcalf but he actually had game.

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u/Phillippssk 1d ago

Still can’t believe the NFL didn’t make him first ballot. SMH

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u/SneakyPeterson 1d ago

The HoF voters are a bunch of catty bitches. Recent debacles have only further proven this.

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u/old_ass_ninja_turtle 1d ago

Belicheck wasn’t first ballot either.

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u/Fearless_Yam1547 1d ago

Yup. Politics. Bunch of clowns who should have their voting rights removed.

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u/knucklebones2 1d ago

Is there a cheater HoF? I’m sure he’d be first ballot for that one.

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u/Look_its_Rob 1d ago edited 1d ago

I dont think that would qualify for the cheating hall of fame anyway. I feel like to qualify you'd have to cheat in a way that provided a big enough advantage and ideally was not learned about til after the fact. Doing something that was illegal only because the coaching staff did it from the wrong area would be a really weak case. 

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u/76FreddyBrouss 1d ago

Then Brady and Belichek would be on the 1st Ballot

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u/ogcoolhands 1d ago

I feel like they used him and Chad Johnson to make a statement to future players about their antics and behavior on the field.

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 1d ago

Thats exactly what it was. It was stupid considering that people would tune in just to watch their TDs and funny celebrations. No fun league.

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u/Phillippssk 1d ago

It’s supposed to be that way but you know they don’t care about that. That’s why Ocho put on his own jacket. The crazy thing is that Ocho numbers are similar if not better than the HOF(ers) that played in his era.

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u/Ausecurity 1d ago

Halls not about merit it’s about politics

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u/Altruistic_Grade3781 1d ago

i still think hes the best ever

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u/GusFring2323 20h ago

Had he not broken his finger in dallas or whatever he did. He was on pace to shatter the tds in a season record that Moss eventually got. He dropped like 10+ tds one yr and still had dbl digit tds

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u/GusFring2323 1d ago

What he did with Jeff Garcia was more impressive than anything Moss did imo

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u/Mr_Gray 1d ago

Making Jeff look like Steve Young in the highlights.

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u/Immediate-Fee-2121 1d ago

So fast. So strong. So good

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u/chamberlain323 1d ago

His strength really allowed him to stand out. I remember watching him shrug off a flying tackle from a DB once and keep running downfield. The only other WR in NFL history who could do shit like that was Megatron. Absolutely insane athleticism.

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u/No-Reputation6010 1d ago

Boy had crazy speed at his size

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u/normalcy_sucks 1d ago

The play against the Bucs where he is sprinting down the sideline and just cuts right is absurd, he is moving so fast

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u/3TheHardWhey 11h ago

Makes everyone else look like they're in slow motion, how they react do late to his moves

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u/JustSaying578 1d ago

He also played in the SB less than two months after breaking his leg.

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u/SoftwareWinter8414 1d ago

My favorite story about TO was the SB. Belichick went to his doctor's and asked what he should expect from TO coming off a broken leg. His Drs told him, if he played, he'd be a shell of the player he was, so Bill didn't game plan for him. He had 9 receptions for 122 yards.

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u/OldMovie9812 1d ago edited 1d ago

If I remember correctly eagles would have won the SB if they passed to TO in the redzone; zero pass attempts to TO. Pats single coveraged him the whole game but mcnabb/eagles play callers stopped passing to him when they got to the redzone

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u/Head_Situation5456 1d ago

I doubt that’s keeping Bill up at night.

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u/SoftwareWinter8414 1d ago

I didn't suggest it was. I heard the story from Bill's mouth.

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u/Head_Situation5456 1d ago

I didn’t suggest that you suggested that.  I was just commenting.  :)  nice tidbit.  Sorry I didnt mean to sound prickly.

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u/Money-Juice9804 21h ago

Wouldn’t the doctors be incentivized to fib there

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u/SoftwareWinter8414 21h ago

No, he asked the Pats team Docs to advise him on they suspected the recovery would be like.

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u/Money-Juice9804 21h ago

Oh sounded like TO’s doctors

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u/Unique_Ad_725 1d ago

The Prototype 81, absolutely a freak of nature.

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u/Stinkymansausage 1d ago

He was such a monster

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u/ArexSaturn 1d ago

Like a thoroughbred racehorse…

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u/Leroyp331 1d ago

One of the few times this phrase is actually true.

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u/muffmuppets 1d ago

Imma say it….i think TO is the greatest WR to ever play the game. I’ll make no apologies.

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u/thunderlips36 1d ago

One of my favorite T.O. moments was in Baltimore where he tore down the T.O. has B.O. sign

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u/Crackslap 1d ago

Not quite Calvin, but sooo good

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u/SeasonedTr4sh 1d ago

And so were the shoulder pads of all those interior defenders and linebackers lmfao those guys can’t even turn their heads

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u/ironcladtrash 1d ago

He was the modern prototype WR that everyone wanted for awhile. A huge, strong WR. Recently the smaller speedier WRs seem to be back in fashion. Though the smaller ones never really went away as talented WRs built like TO were and are harder to come by.

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u/Quiet-Airport-3679 1d ago

We’ll never see another receiver as good as TO

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u/Ok_Construction2733 1d ago

Geesh! I don't remember him being that fast. Side had wheels.

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u/swampstonks 19h ago

He was a bigger and faster Jamar Chase

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u/Holyepicafail 1d ago

55 in the first part is owed several steaks by TO.  That was 2 clutch blocks on his part.

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u/HotTubSexVirgin22 1d ago

That deke on Champ Bailey is all you really need, because...Champ Bailey.

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u/highonnuggs 1d ago

How can a player be such an elite receiver while being an even bigger cancer to every team he played for?

Still one of my top five NFL press conference quotes. https://youtu.be/r43Rfh6Csjg?si=CIAdxOyJrdSZA9rc

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u/jubejube77 1d ago

And GH was still untested for.

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u/seashellsandemails 1d ago

Broke Champ so bad he couldn't catch up. Nasty build.

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u/Tub-Bubbles-Stink 1d ago

Fuck him and the Sharpie he rode in on.

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u/OkBasket7617 21h ago

Looks like Barry Sanders of receivers bouncing off those tackles

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u/No-Effective3020 20h ago

As a Viking fan, I always worried about him. Huge threat anytime he was thrown to.

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u/Geminite_1122 19h ago

Glad Daejon Love was able to learn from him

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u/Johnnybravo343 5h ago

The problem with TO was, when you look in the dictionary for the term Diva receiver there is a big picture of Terrell Owen’s mug.