Russell and Marilyn. He was grew up with three other sibblings. He was raised by his mother and grandmother. He enjoyed watching football when he was a kid,his favorite football player is Jerry Rice When he was in high school his grand mother restricted him from playing football.
Owens got a chance of entering in to the high school football team when one of his team mates missed the game due to illness. Owens became father of two daughter and two sons by four different mothers.
He was accused by three of four mothers of his kids for not fulfilling the child support payments. But the case was settled prior to trial. Owens explained that reason for missing the child support was decreasing in his wages in NFL. Terrell Eldorado Owens was born Dec. During his early childhood, his mother, Marilyn, moved around often, and Owens often stayed with his grandmother Alice. He got a late start in sports because Alice initially forbade him from playing.
Once he enrolled at Benjamin Russell High School in , Terrell's athletic career slowly progressed. Although he lettered four times in football, he didn't start until his senior season and had to be talked out of quitting the sport by his coaches. Basketball was his best sport, but he also earned a letter in baseball. Because he was a late bloomer in football -- and because of his desire to be a multisport athlete -- few Division I colleges recruited Owens, although he was tall, solidly built and fast for his size.
Tennessee-Chattanooga landed Owens because the coaches didn't mind his playing other sports. He didn't distinguish himself right away, but by his sophomore season, he had become a starter and caught 38 passes for yards and eight touchdowns. Owens pulled in 32 balls for yards and three TDs in his junior year, and despite double coverage his senior year, he had 43 receptions for yards and one touchdown. Mostly because of his size and speed, the San Francisco 49ers took a chance on Owens, drafting him in the third round of the NFL draft.
He made a name for himself after replacing Rice in when his idol went down with an injury. Now in its 13th year, Owens' NFL career has been marred by controversy, in-fighting with teammates and coaches, fan-inciting celebrations, and other headline-grabbing antics. What no one can deny is what T. At this time, he has amassed 13, yards receiving with touchdowns with the 49ers; the Philadelphia Eagles; and his current team, the Cowboys.
Sometimes he even did a little dance in the end zone, which critics said was a display of unsportsmanlike gloating. Before the start of the season, the 49ers signed Owens to a new contract. The team was rewarded the following year when on December 17, , Owens broke an NFL record that had stood for fifty years: in a game against the Chicago Bears, he caught twenty receptions in one game, beating the previous pass-reception single-game record of eighteen set by a Los Angeles Ram player named Tom Fears — on December 3, Earlier that season, Owens had moved beyond dancing in the end zone during a September game against the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium.
After a touchdown, he went out and did a joyous dance on the Cowboys' midfield logo. When he did it a second time,the Dallas crowd erupted in anger. The second time I did do it out of spite. But I didn't expect it to create such a stir. Even behind the scenes, Owens was not the most popular member of the team. Fellow players considered him aloof, and he had some battles with the 49ers coaching staff, too.
Once, he told the press that the team had lost to the Chicago Bears because Mariucci was pals with the Bears' coach, Dick Jauron — , and did not give it his best coaching effort that day. On another occasion, Owens criticized Mariucci for the coach's play-calling during one game, claiming that Owens had not been given the ball enough. Mariucci, asked by a reporter about Owens's remarks, called them "devoid of thought" according to Paul Attner in Sporting News. The two spent an entire season not speaking more than a minimum of necessary words to one another, but they finally patched things up after Owens met with the 49ers general manager and team owner to talk about it after the season ended.
Two months later, Mariucci flew out to visit Owens at his Atlanta home, where "we just put it all on the table,positive and negative," Owens told New York Times sportswriter Damon Hack. He told me there may have been some things he did wrong—maybe he should have gotten me the ball more— but you live and learn. Owens was involved in another highly publicized incident in October during a 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks.
When he caught a game-winning touchdown, he took a Sharpie magic marker out of his sock, signed the football, and handed it to his financial advisor, who was sitting in the stands. In response, the NFL issued what became known as the "Sharpie rule," which called for a fifteen-yard penalty or even ejection from the game for any player who takes a foreign object onto the field.
All of this controversy did not hinder Owens's performance on the field. He had another career-defining moment during a playoff game against the New York Giants in He caught yards' worth of receptions and helped the team, which had been losing by 24 points,beat the Giants 39— Despite the talents of Owens and quarterback Jeff Garcia, the 49ers consistently failed to make it to the Super Bowl. It was a source of concern for the team, its owners, and Bay Area fans alike.
Owens was not happy about being on a losing team, and he and Garcia did not have a good working relationship, either on the gridiron or off. Owens began dropping hints in the media that he hoped to move on when the season was over. A clause part in his contract gave him the option to become a free agent early in , and that would let him sign with another team. Before that happened, however, the 49ers announced that they had traded Owens to the Baltimore Ravens.
An angry Owens told the media he would not play in Baltimore. There was a question of whether he and his sports agent had missed the February 21, , deadline, when he was expected to declare himself a free agent.
Owens claimed that in he had negotiated a March 15 deadline instead and was in contract negotiations with the Eagles when the Ravens trade was announced. The NFL players' association took his side, and a legal battle seemed possible. That was avoided when all parties met at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a deal was struck: Owens would go to Philadelphia, and Philadelphia would give San Francisco a defensive end player, Brandon Whiting, and also give up its fifth-round draft-pick slot to Baltimore.
His number 81 Eagles jersey became the NFL's top-selling piece of merchandise, with sales boosted by his performance during the season. The skit showed the pair in a locker room, with Sheridan wearing just a towel; she asks Owens to skip the game to be with her and drops the towel to the floor.
He says the team will have to do without him, and she jumps into his arms. The promotional spot was produced by ABC Sports, and it prompted a flood of angry phone calls and letters to the network, for it had aired at a time when many under-age viewers were watching. In Owens was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles, where his impact on its offense was immediately obvious.
During a seven-game Eagles winning streak, Owens topped yards receiving per game—but he also increased his touchdown celebrations.
The winning streak ended with a defeat against the Steelers, but a controversial television promotion that had appeared before the Monday Night football game overshadowed Owens' six receptions for yards and three scores during the game. The sensual television promotion featured Owens in the locker room with barely clad actress Nicollette Sheridan from the television show Desperate Housewives.
Ultimately Owens apologized for the promo, but not before a barrage of media criticism. Although Owens may have made mistakes in the eyes of some fans and the media, his passionate personality and performance captured the hearts of many.
In a game against the Lions he responded to e-mails from Navy and Air Force members stationed in the Middle East who had asked him to salute if he scored a touchdown. He gave the salute after scoring a yard touchdown early in the game. Later in the season in a game against the Cowboys, Owens fractured his leg, causing concerns that the Eagles would be ineffective without their star receiver.
But receiver Freddie Mitchell took up the slack for Owens, and after 20 years Eagles fans were celebrating a return to the Super Bowl. Although the team lost to the Patriots, Owens finished the game with a heroic effort of nine catches for yards. The second season of Owens' seven-year contract began badly.
When the Eagles refused, he threatened to skip training camp completely. Roundly criticized by players and the media, Owens reported to camp, but was distant and aloof.
Soon, he was ejected for a week after arguing with head coach Andy Reid. As always, Owens refused to apologize for his behavior. That's what I've been going in there and doing. Among his many accomplishments as a football player, Owens was the second NFL player to record five seasons with 13 or more touchdowns, and the first to score a touchdown in seven straight Monday Night Football games.
He is known as an inspirational player and leader of his team—an athlete who gives the ultimate effort in each practice and each game. His intense drive to succeed has earned him the respect and admiration of his fellow football players, though many fans criticize him for his arrogant and antagonistic attitude.
Terrell Owens seems likely to continue to grab attention, both on the field and off.
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