Former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens does not want fans to compare him to Antonio Brown. AB caused a frenzy Sunday afternoon after the wideout took off his shoulder pads and left MetLife Stadium in the middle of the Bucs game vs the Jets, making a dramatic exit by taking off his undershirt, throwing it into the crowd along with his gloves, while pumping fans up as he was exiting the field.
As fans were reacting to the bizarre situation on Twitter, one fan asked who the bigger diva was, T.O. or Brown. The Hall of Fame wideout made sure to respond on his personal account and didn't hold back.
"Wow. Respectfully and Disrespectfully, there's no comparison," Owens said on his Twitter account. "Clearly you've been drinking the kool-aid."
Owens does have a point. During his playing days, T.O. was certainly a headache wherever he went, whether he was in San Francisco, Philly or Dallas. To Owens credit, he never did half the stuff AB has done in the past few years and was never arrested when he was in the league.
According to NFL Network's Ian Rapport, the former Bucs wideout argued with the coaching staff that he could not re-enter the game because he was not healthy enough--steeming from an ankle injury he's missed some time for.
"What he told the staff, from what I understand, is that he was not going into the game because, in his mind, he did not feel he was healthy,” Rapoport said on Monday’s “Good Morning Football.” “The response then from the offensive coaches and from Bruce Arians was, ‘If you are not gonna go into the game when we tell you to go into the game, then you cannot be here.’ At that point, they threw him off the sidelines and then cut him from the team."
Brown was questionable heading into Week 17 and only caught three catches for 26 yards before his meltdown.
If Brown was in fact not healthy enough to come back into the game, let's not forget that T.O. played in Super Bowl XXXIX against the Patriots with a broken leg.
With the feeling around the league that this was AB's last game in the NFL, like Owens, will his antics and bizarre behavior hinder him from making the Hall of Fame despite his numbers telling a different story?
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