We all know T.O. is an idiot, but Donovan McNabb is starting to sound like a big crybaby. The whole soap opera was finally out of the news, but McNabb decides to open it all up again by granting an interview to ESPN during Super Bowl week. McNabb reveals that he’s hyper-sensitive about the black quarterback issue:
McNabb might have, at first, laughed it off when Owens affirmed the statement, saying, “I think that’s a fair assessment, if we had Brett Favre we’d probably be undefeated.” But McNabb acknowledged Wednesday that Owens’ statement hit him hard.
“In that situation, it was kinda like, ‘That’s unreal.’ That’s just like me saying, ‘If we had Steve Largent, if we had Joe Jurevicius, we’d be undefeated. He’ll now have to answer the question for the whole week about me saying it.”
McNabb’s selection of two white receivers was not by accident. He took Owens’ choice of Favre as disrespectful to McNabb as an African-American quarterback.
“It was definitely a slap in the face to me. Because as deep as people won’t go into it, it was [a] black-on-black crime. I mean, you have a guy that has been criticized just about all his career and now the last criticism is that I’m selling out because I don’t run anymore, by an African-American [J. Whyatt Mondesire, the NAACP chapter president who ripped McNabb in a column that appeared in the Philadelphia Sun].
“And to say if we had Brett Favre, that could mean that if you had another quarterback of a different decent or ethnic background, we could be winning. That’s something I thought about and said, ‘Wow.’ It’s different to say if we had Michael Vick, Daunte Culpepper, Steve McNair, Aaron Brooks, Byron Leftwich. But to go straight to Brett Favre, that slapped me in the face, like what I’ve done and what I set out to do…”
Black-on-black crime?!? Are you kidding me? That’s pathetic. Everyone (including me) assumed that T.O. was the problem in Philly and that McNabb was the innocent victim, but maybe McNabb had something to do with the problem as well. It’s clear he has a big chip on his shoulder and that he’s very sensitive to criticism. He needs to leave this alone and move on.
