Rick you are so hopelessly ignorant of the meaning of responsibilty and ethical and moral values that if you are representative of Philly fans as a whole, I wonder no more about the sad state of affairs in the "City of Take no Responsibility for your own Actions". Do you want the Eagles to wipe his wittle nose for him too? After all, how dare they not acknowledge that the cold weather up there may have given him a cold! By your criteria I think I'll go out and rob a bank, after all, no one ever gave me a fair shot at life, and no one taught me how to behave!
I guess the Eagles "warning and admonishing him repeatedly" according to Andy Reid was simply not enough for your bleeding heart for poor misguided grown adult Owens. I suppose they should have given in to the little pampered spoiled brats temper tantrums because appeasment is always better than discipline, what a pathetic argument you make. I would take the time to discect and destroy both of your posts point by nonsensical point (not that it would take much effort), but the barf factor involved in having to re-read them would simply be to overpowering to handle. Go ahead and keep him Philly, you deserve each other.
Moron: you obviously don't understand my post, so just once more, because I am a compassionate, sincere individual, I'll try to help you understand.
First off, if you can't articulate why you think I'm wrong, you have no buisness posting. I could care less about your ignorant opinions, but if you have a valid reason for thinking the way you do, that would pique my interest. However your unwillingness to do so, and you're pathetic reason for not doing so, or responding to my points suggests that you can't.
Second, I never said that TO shouldn't be called to task for his behavior, or that he should be forgiven with no penalty. What I said was, the Eagles knew what they were gettting with TO, and it is their fault that they did nothing to help him.
This is where morality comes into it. It's all very well and good to denounce people for being wrong, but the simple truth is that none of us are without flaw. Additionally some of us have different flaws and different areas where we posses true knowledge. Some of us simply can't see where we are wrong, and this is where we need the assistance of others to help us to right ourselves.
TO is in need of this, as his personality is somehwat destructive and certainly inspires contempt from others. He can't help himself, as you seem to imagine. He simply CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY the Eagles would sever their relationship with them. He has no idea that he is WRONG, even thought that is obvious to everyone else. This is a deep psychological limitation that TO has, if he was able to deal with it, he wouldn't have acted in the way he did,
But the Eagles, who were in a postion to help and had an interest in doing so for the sake of the teams success failed to act. It wasn't enough to punish him; as this did nothing to change his behavior. It is obvious that the ability to deal with this was beyond him. As oppossed to your analogy about robbing a bank. You know damn well that that is wrong and if you went ahead and did it anyway, you would deserve to be punished. If after that you went out and did it again, it would be apparent that something else was reguired to help you live in harmony in this society. Sometimes people get so bad that they're beyond help. Sometimes you just have to kill them.
In effect the Eagles killed TO's career with them, and it is entirely their fault. They shouldn't have brought him here in the first place, knowing how he behaved in SF. There was no reason to expect that he'd be any different here, and his antics throught the last season revealed that. This conflict was inevitable, because TO couldn't help himself, and the Eagles didn't do anything to help him with this problem.
The end result is that the Eagles loose a key componenent in their chance to win a Super Bowl. I wonder how Philly fans will feel if he ends up in Atlanta with Michael Vick and they and the Eagels meet and TO wins the game for the Falcons. THAT would have a certain poetic justice to it, and be exaclty what the Eagles deserve for their negligence.
