Terrell Owens told GQ magazine in an interview that will air in the near future, that team captain Jeremiah Trotter told him not to read the part of the apology letter that mentioned Donovan McNabb. The letter was written by the Eagles front office back in 2005. Trotter took great exception to these comments last night via his Twitter account. He made several comments to Owens. We have them all here:
Trotter: “yo man y u lying to GQ Mag I never told u that call me ASAP!!!!!”
Owens then responded by saying “Lying about what?”
Trotter: “what you said in GQ mag. That’s a lie U got my # call me dude!!!!”
The comments are listed below and Trotter denies that he did any of those things pretty vehemently.
“To say I regret anything would be a slap in my grandmother’s face,” he says. “Are there some things I might do differently now? Sure.”
What things?
“Some of the things in Philadelphia.” He sits back in his chair, seeming to catalog the events in his head: proclaiming that he didn’t care what fans thought of him, the locker-room tussle with his teammate Hugh Douglas, the various flare-ups with Donovan McNabb. But definitely not his attempt to renegotiate his $49 million, heavily back-loaded contract. “I was not paid competitively, and that was that,” he says. “The teams talk about how we should keep to our end of the bargain, but then they dump you at the point at which you’d actually start earning out, and that is supposed to be okay. Why don’t they need to keep up their end?”
How about the decision not to publicly apologize to McNabb for suggesting in an interview immediately after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl that the quarterback had “got tired” on the field? For a moment, he is silent. Could he actually be on the verge of admitting he made an error?
“Well, I probably should have done…,” he begins, rubbing his hand along the contours of his massive shaved dome. Then he stops himself. “No. No. Listen, I was in the locker room before the press conference, and my team captain, Jeremiah Trotter, read through that apology they wrote for me. He got to the bottom part, the part where it had the stuff about Donovan, and he did this.” Owens snatches a piece of paper from the table and rips off the bottom three inches. “This is the team leader we’re talking about; he told me not to do it.”
After Trotter and Owens apparently spoke on the phone, Trotter had this to say via Twitter:
“despite your recollection and my recollection are different I still love you man!”
And all is right in the world again. Nice job, fellas.
The entire interview with GQ can be seen here.
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Tags: Donovan McNabb, Eagles, jeremiah trotter, Johnny G, Terrell Owens
