Skipping HOF induction ceremony? Are you fucking kidding me?

https://deadspin.com/terrell-owens-says ... 1826643686

Terrell Owens will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this August. But he won’t be there to celebrate his enshrinement.

After being passed over twice, the Hall of Fame announced that Owens would be inducted this year. So the mercurial wide receiver got in, but he’s still holding a grudge about the process. He apparently doesn’t want to celebrate his induction with people who only let him in on the third try, so today he said he’d be skipping the ceremony. It is the most T.O. of T.O. moves.

I am so grateful for all of the support my family, friends, and certainly my fans, have shown me throughout my entire career in the National Football League. When it was announced that I was going to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the response received from my fans was overwhelming, and I am truly humbled. I am honored to be included among this group of fellow inducted individuals.

While I am incredibly appreciative of this opportunity, I have made the decision to publicly decline my invitation to attend the induction ceremony in Canton. I have already shared this information with the Hall. After visiting Canton earlier this year, I came to the realization that I wish to celebrate what will be one of the most memorable days of my life, elsewhere. At a later date, I will announce where and when I will celebrate my induction.

It went on a bit, but this is the important part: Terrell Owens will be having his own personal enshrinement ceremony. What will that entail? Will it be a big ceremony at a giant arena? A small affair at a nice banquet hall? A driveway in New Jersey?

Hall of Fame head David Baker called the decision “unprecedented” in his own statement. Owens is apparently the first player to ever decline to attend his own induction. “We are disappointed but will respect Terrell’s decision not to participate in the enshrinement,” he said in the release. It’s good to know Owens won’t be forced to attend.

Would be hilarious if he asked Kaepernick to accept on his behalf.

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This is great. Good for him.

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Who cares? TO was a bitch, anyway.

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Agreed. It was ridiculous for them to not induct him the first time, so fuck them and their stupid yellow jackets.

He could beat up you, frank, and LTG by himself

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

That is a mature way to think about it.

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Me likey.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

The HOF voters started it.

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Yeah, while not as full of self-important dickbags as those running the baseball HoF, the football HoF isn't much better. I'm sure whatever he has planned will be more fun and entertaining than spending any time in Canton Ohio.

Seau didn't attend his induction either, big deal!

Hey while you're on this maturity kick make sure you keep up with thread discussing you fighting a message board poster you never met.

Entertaining, maybe, but not fun. TO is joyless.

I don't think there is any need to defend the honor and sanctity of the HoF induction ceremony.

If there is a worthwhile explanation as to it's importance I'd love to be educated about it.

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It is ridiculous that he wasn't first ballot.

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Either way, he will regret it one day if he doesn't attend.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Sure thing, chief.

It is. But what purpose does it serve by not going to the ceremony? Be the better man and accept the honor with dignity and pride.

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I love me some me. I love me some TO

T.O. represented a great time in America where the drama of sports was about guys being jackasses and overdosing on Vicodin instead of political arguments.

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Great no show today.

+1.

No issue with this.

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Fare you well, fare you well
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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I agree with KD.

I wouldn't go either. I don't like boring things. He's probably gonna get drunk and bang bitches instead.

prolly not allowed out of his state

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I like the guys who know they're out there for entertainment. None of the "THIS IS WAR!" bullshit.

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For what?

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and i'd conjecture that kaepertwink saw the writing on the wall for his career and decided to try something that i think he thought would make him stand out in a positive way... you know, a veritable insurance policy that would probably get him a job even if he essentially played himself out of the league.

even tho i don't give a shit about the kneeling during the anthem (which always seemed a bit sacrosanct to me) i gotta admit that despite being a garbage QB for a garbage team kaepertwink had pretty darn solid #s in his final season, which ends up essentially doing the martyr-for-the-cause thing for him in a league where people still haven't given up on glenda as a backup.

that said, i just don't buy colin fucking kaepernick as some important social activist with some righteous resolve for the cause. i think he saw an opportunity to stand out from the crowd and hedged his bets that being the guy wrapped up in the social cause/s would, ironically, make him a token signing on the backup QB carousel... like whoever signed him would get positive press for signing him (which inexorably would happen, but evidently not on a big enough scale to warrant the macro-issues that come with a faux-pas or worse with the NFL ownership fraternity)

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This is exactly why he was passed over, he's a bipolar bitch and an awful teammate

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+1 more.

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Was it TO that was doing weird shirtless situps in his driveway when trying to get a contract?

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