Friday, November 10, 2006
O.T.
In today's sports world no one signifies the “ME” first attitude more than Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys, formerly of the Phillidelphia Eagles(before he destroyed their locker room), formerly of the San Francisco 49ers(before he wasn’t being “treated well” so he demanded a trade).
Ira Miller of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote. . .
Face it: Owens is a cancer on the 49ers Without Owens, the 49ers would become something they need to be and haven't been -- a TEAM. His act has worn so thin on the other 52 guys on the roster that they'd be better off without him.
MIKE REISS - - Should the Eagles keep Owens???
The message is clear: In a physical, sometimes violent game, all 53 players need to be working off the same script. While T.O. is an exceptionally talented receiver, he ranks last in the good-teammate category.
Terrell Owens. . .(T.O.) has become the source of this year’s “team slogan” I decided that Owens is a great example to use as an attitude we don’t want to bring into our program. So what I did is reversed the attitude along with reversing the letters of Owen’s nickname. Instead of everything being about T.O. we are gearing everything to O.T.
O.T. stands for “Our Team”. I’m asking players and coaches to ask themselves. . . “What am I doing for O.T.” The foundation of this is giving instead of taking. I have really come to believe in the following philosophy of motivational speaker Zig Ziegler:
“You can get everything you want in life. . . if you help enough other people get what they want.”
I think the same holds true in basketball. If a player works hard to help others on the team get what they want, eventually this player is going to see that she is going to get what she wants.
I’m really going to stress the “O.T.” slogan this year and maybe for years to come. We are ordering up practice shirts with the slogan imprinted on them and the letters “O.T.” will appear on quite a few things as the year progresses.
Ira Miller of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote. . .
Face it: Owens is a cancer on the 49ers Without Owens, the 49ers would become something they need to be and haven't been -- a TEAM. His act has worn so thin on the other 52 guys on the roster that they'd be better off without him.
MIKE REISS - - Should the Eagles keep Owens???
The message is clear: In a physical, sometimes violent game, all 53 players need to be working off the same script. While T.O. is an exceptionally talented receiver, he ranks last in the good-teammate category.
Terrell Owens. . .(T.O.) has become the source of this year’s “team slogan” I decided that Owens is a great example to use as an attitude we don’t want to bring into our program. So what I did is reversed the attitude along with reversing the letters of Owen’s nickname. Instead of everything being about T.O. we are gearing everything to O.T.
O.T. stands for “Our Team”. I’m asking players and coaches to ask themselves. . . “What am I doing for O.T.” The foundation of this is giving instead of taking. I have really come to believe in the following philosophy of motivational speaker Zig Ziegler:
“You can get everything you want in life. . . if you help enough other people get what they want.”
I think the same holds true in basketball. If a player works hard to help others on the team get what they want, eventually this player is going to see that she is going to get what she wants.
I’m really going to stress the “O.T.” slogan this year and maybe for years to come. We are ordering up practice shirts with the slogan imprinted on them and the letters “O.T.” will appear on quite a few things as the year progresses.
# posted by Viking Warrior @ 8:02 AM 
