Former Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens was the headline at Ticketstock 2016 over the weekend. Here's some things the always entertaining wideout had to say about his career and time in Dallas:

On the media:

"If anybody has any preconceived notions about me or any ill feelings toward me about my character or anything like that, you have to sit down and be around me for more than five minutes or read some clips or read some press. I think that's what a lot of people have really gotten from a lot of the media portrayal of my character. Other than that, I've always been the same person. There have been a number of guys that have gone out on a limb to try and defend me in terms of my character and how I was in the locker room."

On the benefits of social media for athletes:

"Where social media is now, if it was really that way back then I would have been able to dispute or dispel some of those things. The media is very, very powerful. I realize the way that people perceive me now is based on the media's inaccurate portrayal of who I was. [Social media] is now a platform for a lot of guys to dispute or dispel anything that's going on out there. There's no middle man. Had I been able to have that platform, there were times where I did interviews where I tried to defend myself, but with a lot of people that don't know much about the media, there's something called editing. So they edit it the way they want it portrayed and for people to see it across the country, so that's how it all happened."

On the possible negative side of social media:

"I don't really drink, so you wouldn't have gotten any drunk tweets from me."

On not getting into the Hall of Fame:

"I felt more so disrespected. I think you guys know, my stats speak for themselves. I think everyone realizes that there is a flaw in the system. I didn't really have to say a whole lot. Around the country, two weeks after the Super Bowl and this whole induction thing, people are still talking about it. Obviously there is something that needs to be changed about it. I never really played the game to get in the Hall of Fame, anyways. I'm used to it. I probably would have been more surprised if I had made it. It's a shame for some pencil-pushers to vote guys in, considering the body of work they've done and put out on the football field. What I've done throughout my career speaks volumes."

His thoughts on why did he not make the Hall of Fame:

"I think it should be an exciting in any player's career, in their lives, commemorating what they've done on the football field. A lot of people have brought up the character issues. I went on to debate Skip [Bayless] a couple of weeks ago. There's a lot of hearsay. That's why I mentioned about social media. Skip Bayless has gone on to say that he's talked to different people in the locker room. I asked him 'Who are the people that you are talking about?' Hearsay and anonymous sources? Attach some names to it. So I went on to do my research too, and of all the locker rooms he said that people have said I was divisive or wasn't a good teammate or whatever, I rattled off some names to dispute that. It is what it is."

On his feelings of not making the Hall of Fame:

"Everything has its timing. I don't really worry about it too much. If I had made it, it would have been more of a surprise to me more than anything. I didn't hang my hat on making it, I wasn't disappointed."