http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2604395

TO attempts suicide.

Naw, just another attention grab from this sad sad example of a human being. If you really want to die, you don't get help after the act. If you just want attention, you call for an ambulence.

T.O. attempts suicide whenever T.O. wants to.
This guy is a perfect example of too much fame too quickly....

Can't confirm it but someone heard that now they are saying this was an "allergic reaction" LMAO.

I hear it's common to have an allergic reaction to a bottle of sleeping pills.

the allergic reaction was the first bit of info leaked to the media... the suicide attempt is the new story, not the other way around.

35 painkillers at once isn't an adverse reaction to a drug, it's a grab for attention (especially when you take 2 more pills infront of the paramedics you called for)

In case it was missed, my post was entirely in jest. ;)

I have this idiot on my fantasy team. If Parcells can't reel this shit in no one can.

Just another example of TO trying to grab spotlight. If you want to commit suicide you dont use pills. get a gun put in your mouth and pull, or C cut your arms or thighs. then it doesnt matter if you call and ambulance you die either way.

Rev (I hate that fucking Prima Donna).

Remember kiddies the train goes down the tracks, not accross

He didn't attempt suicide, it was a misunderstanding and bullshit caused by the media's infatuation with him. Seriously, 12 hours of espn coverage on this?

The story of what really happend with the reaction to the medication makes complete sense, and there's no reason to think T.O. is a liar. A selfish jackass? Sure, but never a liar.

A great article on this whole thing:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2605082

You saw how convoluted and messy and loud things got when it was just his hamstring. So now we're going to try to climb inside his brain, an organ that's vastly more difficult to understand? We've seen in a very public way how alcohol can alter Mel Gibson, so it is possible that Owens had no idea where he was or what he was saying when he allegedly told a paramedic he was trying to harm himself. But everything that has happened after that is just more proof of how polarizing he can be, of how he makes us take sides. You can believe him and leave it at that. Or you can call him a liar because that reaffirms your belief of who you already think him to be.


We do this all the time in sports. We grab the stuff that supports our likes and dislikes. If you like Brett Favre and think him a living legend, you ignore his selfishness and his former painkiller addiction and his refusal to tutor Aaron Rodgers and his lack of support for holdout Javon Walker. If you dislike Randy Moss, you hold up his crass mock mooning of the Green Bay crowd as an indictment of everything he is even though it offers no more a complete picture of Moss than another little thing he does in the end zone, when he gives a touchdown football to a kid in a wheelchair.


Facts? There are very few of those. So we'll waddle into the unknown and pick and choose whatever supports our own baggage. It was a sports figure who taught us how two groups of people could see the same set of facts differently. His name was O.J. Simpson.


Like him or hate him, Owens has always given you his truth. It may be a narcissistic, one-sided, persecuted version of the truth, but it is honestly the way he sees things, like it or not. One of his biggest public relations problems is that he is relentlessly honest and sometimes seems completely unfamiliar with the concept of tact. Graceful on the field, clumsy off it. In this case, it sounds like T.O.'s version of the truth was clouded by a mixture of medications. But who in the world is more qualified to tell you whether he was thinking about killing himself than him?

There's a book in this somewhere, I just know it.

Those were the same words I had...here comes a book.

Title of the book:
T.O. on T.O.: This time it's personal.

On Friday, though, he couldn't have been more affable. Playing. Joking. Making fun of himself. Talking for a full five minutes about how he is looking forward to buying a terribly unmasculine 4-pound dog because he doesn't have much use for the more aggressive pets (a pit bull and a mastiff) of Steelers linebacker Joey Porter (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?statsId=4723) that recently killed a miniature horse. He was funny, light, free. This is only a snapshot, a grain of sand at the beach, but he certainly didn't sound much like someone thinking of killing himself.




Neither did my friend who went apeshit over his girlfriend leaving him. He was fine one minute and the next he just pulled the trigger on the shotgun he had stuffed in his mouth.

I don't buy it, but it doesn't matter how I feel it will all come out eventually whether it be a book or through some other means. I personally think he tried it and it's a cry for help.

He didn't attempt suicide, it was a misunderstanding and bullshit caused by his infatuation with the media.

There, corrected it.

He didn't attempt suicide, it was a misunderstanding and bullshit caused by his infatuation with himself.
Corrected the correction.

Saw this on another forum.


http://www.patsfans.com/images/frankie/terrell-owens-cartoon.jpg