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Terrell Owens Simply Won’t Stop Talking About His Time in Dallas

Terrell Owens is constantly polarizing, whether his intentions are well placed or not. And his ill-fated and quite short marriage with the Dallas Cowboys was the worst possible decision for both sides and, naturally, it ended poorly. 

As a result, there’s been plenty of nasty barbs back and forth — FanHouse’s Calvin Watkins actually spoke with Owens yesterday and he blamed Jerry Jones for leaving — in the ensuing aftermath. And you know darn well when you get Owens on a radio show with Cowboys radio guys (seriously — who the $%&# scheduled that???) you know it’s going to be tense. There’s talk of his situation in Dallas, Twitter (yes!), why he’s not a Cowboy anymore, whether he regrets the Dallas disaster and if he’d like to elaborate past 140 characters. (Bonus: at the end of the interview, some guy named Keith hangs up the phone for Owens when the radio hosts tell him to ‘hang on, dude’ in response to his request for the interview to end.) Good times!

On why he’s not a Cowboy anymore:

“Uhhhhh. That’s a good question. I have no earthly idea. As far as I’m concerned, I’m pretty sure it’s what the media’s been saying since the end of the season — that I’m a distraction to the locker room. But I don’t see how that can be when a lot of guys have come out and spoken on my behalf and said that’s not the case, so, your guess is as good as mine. Those are the types of things that happen, and I was disappointed with the situation …

On the perception of his situation vs. the reality:

“There again, even with the speculation of what was going on — guys, every time I go to defend myself and I think anybody that knows me by this point knows that I have no reason to lie — I’ve never lied about anything — and you know even the reports of me saying they were behind my back calling plays … dude, I did a piece with Stephen A. Smith and I adamantly defended myself and said those things didn’t come out of my mouth. So other than that, bro, I don’t know what else to do but tell the truth. Whether people believe or not, that’s on them. All I know is that I didn’t lie, I said what I had to say, and people still want to believe that I was a distraction and that I caused the problems in the locker room. Aside from that, my teammates have come out and said I wasn’t a distraction in the locker room and that I was a good teammate.

On his Tweets:

“Again, when I tweet, and I’m on Twitter — if you’re familiar with Twitter, there’s a column where it says, “What are you doing?” and you can initiate or post anything that you would like. Or, the one that you’re referring to, is basically a question that was asked by one of my fans on the Twitter and I answered it. And those are my faults.”

On elaborating past 140 characters about Romo getting him out of Dallas:

“I care not to elaborate. I pretty much said it in the 140 characters. There’s no need to elaborate — otherwise I would have posted something else after that.”

On having regrets:

“Well, yeah, in certain cases, yeah — when I was in Philly, I did those things. But in this situation, no. I don’t regret anything. I honestly say that with conviction because I’ve had a number of coaches, well, not a number, but I’ve had a few coaches that I was close to, a number, uh, the guys on the team that called me shortly after that to express how upset they were and how unfair it was. They know I’ve been used as a scapegoat in that situation. With that being said, I can’t be happier with the response that I got from my teammates speaking on my behalf. And I think that’s what a lot of people aren’t talking about — they’re going on what the guys on ESPN and all the commenters are saying that I was a distraction and that I divided the locker room. That’s what people are basing their opinion on.”

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