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Pains me When you know, guys getting altercations or guys having their personal issues and somehow my name gets pulled right into those conversation. I'm not a bad person. Whatever I've done is not even remotely the same. There's been a lot of misrepresentation of who Terrell Owens is. I'm not that guy that you see on the. Football field Let's Rewind this thing. Let's start it all over. Oh, yeah, it's rolling out. Many people are vegetarian, There's a million people looking at you. Mister team everybody. I didn't have a glamorous childhood life. You know the product of my environment to describe. I guess where I grew up and where I'm from that takes me back to my hometown in Alexander City, Alabama, The Great Alexander City, Alabama, All of the Hall of Famer Lawrence. Everybody loved their football here Is you grew up here. Nine times out of 10 you're gonna play football. He was small slim, very tiny. I never would imagine him being the height. No girls wanted to talk to me and me and my teeth are crooked. I mean I was skinny strong. I was probably black as this shirt real black. I'm not gonna say dark. He was black. There's someone and then being out in the summer. You'll get a shade darker down here. They had little how you doing. Nick didn't have a lot at the time, but people didn't know that my mom made a miraculous sacrifices whatever she had to do whether it was working two jobs, sometimes sometimes working three. Yep, I just be off the top of my head. My mom was a seamstress. She pretty much made made all of our clothing in high school. The properly thing was Swiss watches guess jeans and things that nature We can afford a pair of gifts overall, so I bought him a pair of overalls and I took the gifts Emily and I sold it on there. I felt cool, I felt like I belonged in you know my mom could afford guess overall, even though she couldn't, but somehow I made it look like it. And we over here mama's saying House. And just give you a TV here, my little friend get on the road. get get it. Oh, yeah. My grandmother was a she was a straight lady. She assisted my mom and raising you know myself and and my sister. She was a no nonsense type of person, she said. What she meant and she met what she said, and she told you to do something he didn't do it. You'll get hit upside the head or hitting the mouth. There was no talking back. There was none of that nobody was coming to our House. We weren't going to anybody House and no one was coming through the yard don't walk through her grass. you know, I remember her pulling a shotgun on somebody for walking through the yard. it was ruled with an iron fist. You couldn't say nothing if you wanted to say something that's that's how straight she was. It was always a quietness quietness. then once we got there, but we knew she will. I knew she loved us because she took care of us. We had a roof over our head clothes on our back food to eat. It just wasn't a lot of communication. Everybody remember when I was a little kid like I was always with her no matter what you know she sheltered us to a degree to where it affected me. I feel like maybe I was socially awkward. You know not able to to be able to mingle in and socialize with people because we were always by ourselves. My grandma didn't you want me to play sports because she saw that it was a way of me being out of her eyesight and getting in trouble. and so you know my mom stepped in and basically just said that let me play sports. It's okay. My first memories of playing football was in junior high school seventh eighth grade. I was so little strong to do like the smallest pads were oversized for me. I wasn't even good. I was playing on defense. I didn't know anything about offense. I don't know about playing receiver nothing. So when I went to College man like I said they were just it was just a matter of me just making the most of the opportunities it was the beginning of something that none of us could see as far as you know where where it would lead to. But you know that's that's all you need is one you know one look light and one. I mean he took it and turned it in the in the goal. I was just given an opportunity and I want to take advantage of it and so when I couldn't afford to go home for the summer when I was in College, I got the keys to to the weight room. Pretty much had 20 - four hour access to the weight room and that's how I got bigger faster and stronger. It was one summer. He came home and I seen how he had. you know most of his start coming out without because he was hitting the weights, but they you know he. He asked me cuz he knew I like to run track. You know what I run with it. I was like sure I'm thinking we're going to the track and run he wants to run all over town like okay he might he might be on to something here. Tear loans are many people know as an outstanding wide receiver on the UTC football team Monday is here at UT. just kinda number that the NFL works out. I'll be happy so you know, I hope it works out for me. Okay, Last question you get the right to script What are the best things could happen in football to you over the next say two or three months in football, I would say that I get drafted at least second to third round very high by everybody doesn't matter You have play for. I mean I play hard either way wherever I play wherever I go. A lot of people think that I'm cocky and arrogant, but I had a lot of confidence in myself and a lot of it was a probably a defense mechanism based on how I grew up when I got on a football field and I became who I became and that self confidence that I exude it. That's where it all came from. So now I'm with the Niners. Steve Young Jerry Rice, Martin Hanks all these superstars once I started to become. Into my own and develop my skill set people start to realize that I wasn't like Jerry people took offense to me celebrating to where it is shaped an image of me that I'm sure a lot of people they can't get out of their minds. People started calling him to you and that's the thing he. he never deemed himself TO. They started the whole TLC. He was always terrible, but when he made it. NFL. What was everybody called him to real, so it started off all wrong anyway and then they made T O and nothing's wrong with T. But to me the damn football player is is off the field is demand TO is the stigma the image. even when I went to Philly, I had a couple of players that pulled me to the side and they apologize based on their perception of who they thought I was based on what they had seen through the media. I was bringing. To the table into Philadelphia, what they wanted in what they expected. The fans were excited that they were getting you know something that they hadn't had you know in a while, and they wanted to get to the Super Bowl and I tried my damnedest to give it to him even with two screws and a plate in my foot. When I had surgery, I had gone in surgery like the next day. I vowed at that time. if they make it to the Super Bowl, I will be ready. I got labels selfish by a number of commentators that took away from really my character who I was for playing in that game. if it been bread far, but had been a White player of that magnitude, they would have been glorified. They were glorifying Tom Brady because he has stitches in his hand and he was able to throw the football. But I did something far more spectacular remarkable than having some stitches in a hand. The quarterback Donovan with a strong arm and the first year was good and there were things that were brought to my attention as the season unfolded that I didn't notice. it was people that had been around Donovan for X amount of years and they saw the change because I was getting so much attention growing up in the South. We call it two face and you show somebody one thing. then you know the election you're showing them something else. so him being a big part of kind of the direction and. The team was I'm sure he had a lot of say so as to whether they want to bring me back or not and I'm probably 90 - 500 percent sure that he probably told him don't bring I have to ask you this question because this came up and I interviewed TO right before he did get into the Hall of Fame was he a bad teammate. I mean the book on him was that he was a bad teammate and then they got him out of Dallas in part because of that you are on that team. I have no idea what a narrative comes from my experience for three years in Dallas with T O is that he was a great teammate. He was an example of how you approach the game not only from a physical standpoint. How you approach it from a mental aspect so at this point. With San Francisco Philly now with Dallas now, I'm sort of like the common denominator of of all these problems and so all the fingers are gonna be pointed at me. but again, you're not hearing any players say any of this. I was never problem in Dallas. I was not a problem in Dallas. you haven't heard one teammates say that I was everything that skip Bayless said everything that shows all. Barry has been saying if I'm that bad of a teammate, then why aren't my teammates saying anything about it. So yeah all these years. People have perceived me to be a certain way that is because of who and what they think about me because of the media portrayal. I do realize yeah, I probably could have handled a lot of situations a bit differently, but the time site you know it comes with growth is come with come with maturation. There are times where I feel like I wanna give up. I don't wanna be here. you know a lot of people are probably afraid to to discuss and talk about that. but we as human beings. I'm sure we've sat in our car in our room or wherever we are probably wish we weren't. Yesterday at the facility and take a couple of pain pills and then I had some treatment. I had a physician over treating my hand and I think after that, I was just kinda get a little bit and I kinda took some extra pills with my supplements. the the room of me taking 30 - five pills. I think it's absurd. I thought can you categorically denied that I'm not a perfect person. I tried to live my life, the best that I that I could that I can. But I think of the day you know like, I said. I got a lot to be thankful for I can only imagine you know what the feeling would be like if I wasn't here or something were to happen to me to that degree. But like I said by the grace of God, I'm still here. I'm fortunate to have had the career that I did that is in able to open doors versus if I didn't. We probably obviously would be sitting here. If I didn't have the career that I did, but it would be a struggle and I probably be. I probably be like Junior, say OW. that's God on his truth and so sometimes it's not all about money. sometimes about acceptance. When you drive into Alexander City, Alabama, you don't know it's the home of terror loans. you don't see a sign. you don't see anything that lets you know that this is where his journey begin. people always see T O they, they know that. Football player, But you know he's a softy and a lot of folks don't know that. I wish people would really get to know and understand the terror that I know and not the TO that you've been given and enforced and accepted from another viewpoint.