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Despite speculation, Owens to KC highly unlikely
By Rick Dean
The Capital-Journal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Yes, it's been quite the fun week around here. It often is when you think the circus is coming to town.
Actually, a media circus did hit trapeze-flying, lion-taming, 12-clowns-in-a-VW proportions earlier this week when Chiefs president Carl Peterson said he would talk to new coach Herm Edwards to gauge his interest in talking to bad-boy receiver Terrell Owens. That high-wire act got the show started.
When Edwards said a day later, in effect, "Sure, I'd talk to TO; I talk to everybody!," it was the man being shot out of the cannon.
Talk shows suddenly were dominated by discussions about the Chiefs deciding to make a serious run at a receiver who catches the ball almost as well as he talks up himself while talking down on his teammates.
I can't remember the last time people spent so much time talking about the mere possibility of other people talking to each other. Maybe when Brad and Angelina first started talking behind Jennifer's back.
Frankly, I'm already talked out on this subject.
Look, the Terrell Owens circus could well visit Kansas City as it makes the circuit of NFL cities. Just don't hold your breath in anticipation.
This really isn't a discussion on the wisdom of such a move. Let others debate whether the Chiefs should consider a troublemaker who burned his bridges in San Francisco, then torched another one in Philadelphia -- while he was still on it, no less.
Nor do I care to consider whether the just-turned 32-year-old Owens would improve the Chiefs receiving corps. Hell, 58-year-old Chiefs receivers coach Charlie Joiner would improve the Chiefs receiving corps, but I don't think he'll be suiting up in the Arrowhead locker room anytime, either.
It's not that the Chiefs wouldn't take a shot at a self-indulgent player if they thought he was one of the few pieces missing from a Super Bowl puzzle.
Remember Kansas City reaching out for difficult-to-coach impact players Chester McGlockton, Wayne Simmons and Andre Rison? Remember their contributions to the 7-9 season that terminated Marty Schottenheimer's 10-year tenure here in 1998?
I don't either.
Concerns about his lack of self-discipline and inability to put the team above his own needs will not keep the TO Traveling Circus from playing Kansas City.
Paying his appearance fee will.
That became obvious Thursday when Peterson made his tour of Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Detroit and told local listeners: 1) the Chiefs didn't have the wiggle room under the still-to-be-determined salary cap to be as active in the free agent mark as they were a year ago; and 2) his main interest is signing Tony Gonzalez to a new contract before his big-bucks roster bonus comes due in March.
The Tony G over TO priority became obvious when Peterson discussed the financial parameters under which Owens would be welcomed as a Chiefs.
"There's a slim chance that I would have an interest," Peterson said in one of his many radio interviews. "Is the guy interested in a minimum contract with incentives based on performance? Is he interested in non-guaranteed dollars so that if he does slip and challenges our quarterback or our coach like he did in Philadelphia that we can say goodbye and not be stuck with the (cap problems) the Eagles will face for several years?
"If all of those things are a possibility, then certainly, we'll talk."
Not when the discussion includes words like "minimum contract" and "non-guaranteed dollars." No way is the TO Traveling Circus coming to Kansas City under those parameters. For in the immortal words of my favorite clown, "Homey don't play that!"
http://cjonline.com/stories/020406/chi_owens.shtml
By Rick Dean
The Capital-Journal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Yes, it's been quite the fun week around here. It often is when you think the circus is coming to town.
Actually, a media circus did hit trapeze-flying, lion-taming, 12-clowns-in-a-VW proportions earlier this week when Chiefs president Carl Peterson said he would talk to new coach Herm Edwards to gauge his interest in talking to bad-boy receiver Terrell Owens. That high-wire act got the show started.
When Edwards said a day later, in effect, "Sure, I'd talk to TO; I talk to everybody!," it was the man being shot out of the cannon.
Talk shows suddenly were dominated by discussions about the Chiefs deciding to make a serious run at a receiver who catches the ball almost as well as he talks up himself while talking down on his teammates.
I can't remember the last time people spent so much time talking about the mere possibility of other people talking to each other. Maybe when Brad and Angelina first started talking behind Jennifer's back.
Frankly, I'm already talked out on this subject.
Look, the Terrell Owens circus could well visit Kansas City as it makes the circuit of NFL cities. Just don't hold your breath in anticipation.
This really isn't a discussion on the wisdom of such a move. Let others debate whether the Chiefs should consider a troublemaker who burned his bridges in San Francisco, then torched another one in Philadelphia -- while he was still on it, no less.
Nor do I care to consider whether the just-turned 32-year-old Owens would improve the Chiefs receiving corps. Hell, 58-year-old Chiefs receivers coach Charlie Joiner would improve the Chiefs receiving corps, but I don't think he'll be suiting up in the Arrowhead locker room anytime, either.
It's not that the Chiefs wouldn't take a shot at a self-indulgent player if they thought he was one of the few pieces missing from a Super Bowl puzzle.
Remember Kansas City reaching out for difficult-to-coach impact players Chester McGlockton, Wayne Simmons and Andre Rison? Remember their contributions to the 7-9 season that terminated Marty Schottenheimer's 10-year tenure here in 1998?
I don't either.
Concerns about his lack of self-discipline and inability to put the team above his own needs will not keep the TO Traveling Circus from playing Kansas City.
Paying his appearance fee will.
That became obvious Thursday when Peterson made his tour of Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Detroit and told local listeners: 1) the Chiefs didn't have the wiggle room under the still-to-be-determined salary cap to be as active in the free agent mark as they were a year ago; and 2) his main interest is signing Tony Gonzalez to a new contract before his big-bucks roster bonus comes due in March.
The Tony G over TO priority became obvious when Peterson discussed the financial parameters under which Owens would be welcomed as a Chiefs.
"There's a slim chance that I would have an interest," Peterson said in one of his many radio interviews. "Is the guy interested in a minimum contract with incentives based on performance? Is he interested in non-guaranteed dollars so that if he does slip and challenges our quarterback or our coach like he did in Philadelphia that we can say goodbye and not be stuck with the (cap problems) the Eagles will face for several years?
"If all of those things are a possibility, then certainly, we'll talk."
Not when the discussion includes words like "minimum contract" and "non-guaranteed dollars." No way is the TO Traveling Circus coming to Kansas City under those parameters. For in the immortal words of my favorite clown, "Homey don't play that!"
http://cjonline.com/stories/020406/chi_owens.shtml