During yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins game, Troy Aikman and the crew shared some things you might not know about Tony Romo..which included his celebrity crush….who is none other than Jessica Simpson!
Personally I think they would make a CUTE CUTE couple – and he would definitely be a step up from Jessica’s current dating pool…which seems to be dead!
Hummmmm…..wonder if Jessica’s camp was watching the game and will jump at the information?!
Amen brother to the Terrell Owens jersey! As a Dallas Cowboys fan for life, I hated T.O. before he came here – now I love him…he’s part of my team and he’s freakin AWESOME!
Hey Meat Loaf….it’s your birthday….raise the roof up…..it’s your birthday…..(sorry, as a white chick the sister in me comes out when I see things like this! ha!)
Terrell Owens’ longtime personal trainer said Wednesday that “a perfect storm” of physically and emotionally devastating events conspired to put the superstar receiver into a tailspin that resulted in a trip to the emergency room Tuesday.
Those events also generated what the trainer called “erroneous” reports of a suicide attempt.
“A lot of things were coming to a head anyway, and then this happened,” said James “Buddy” Primm, 55, who until earlier this month, had been living with Owens in his loft on Commerce Street, in the shadow of Fair Park.
Primm said Owens underwent two traumatic events Monday involving his 7-year-old son and his fiancée, a woman he has dated for three years.
Owens’ son, from a previous relationship, celebrated his birthday Monday, Primm said. Owens was distraught, he said, about not being able to be see the boy, who lives in California.
“He wanted to get together with the boy,” Primm said. “But the boy could not come here, and Terrell could not go there.”
Then hours later, a woman whom Primm described as Owens’ fiancée broke off the relationship. Primm declined to give the woman’s last name but said she and Owens had been dating for three years. She also lives in California.
“That’s been coming on forever,” Primm said of the breakup. “She’s not a bad girl. She’s cool, she’s fine. He said, ‘Can I take a break from the engagement?’ And she said, ‘No, let’s just put a stop to it.’ And that was a complete surprise to Terrell.”
Primm, who lives in Duluth, Ga., near Owens’ off-season residence in Atlanta, has known the Cowboys receiver for seven years. They met when Owens played for the San Francisco 49ers, “exactly 16 weeks before he stood on the star” during a game at Texas Stadium.
That happened during the 2000 season, and Primm says that since then the two have forged a father-son-like bond that Owens seems to need. Growing up in abject poverty in rural Alabama, Owens was raised by his mother and grandmother and, according to Primm, has long been in need of a dominant male figure in his life.
“He’s getting to be like my son,” said Primm, who returned to his home in Georgia last week. He plans to return to Dallas in the next few days to be with Owens.
Owens “doesn’t have many friends,” said the trainer, who contends that the public and news media have long misperceived a man he considers “a gentle soul” and a “caring, highly sensitive” individual with a fragile psyche.
“He’s a good person,” Primm said. “A very good person.”
Primm said he had been in touch with Owens and members of the player’s inner circle on Wednesday. He said that after hearing the chronology of Tuesday’s events, he understood why and how the incident took place and that suicide wasn’t an issue.
“He probably took the pain medication and fell off to sleep,” Primm said. “Then when he gets up, of course he’s going to be weird.”
Before arriving at the Cowboys’ practice facility at Valley Ranch on Tuesday, Owens spent the morning addressing students at a local high school about the perils of domestic abuse and how it’s not their fault should their parents choose to fight.
“It’s an issue he cares about,” Primm said.
Owens reported to the Cowboys’ practice facility at 11:30 a.m. and worked out “hard,” Primm said, catching “bullets” from quarterbacks Drew Bledsoe and Tony Romo for the first time since last week’s surgery on his broken right hand.
And for the first time since the surgery, Owens felt serious pain, the trainer said, noting that until Tuesday night, Owens had not been on a regular routine of taking pain medication “because he hadn’t needed to.”
The receiver left Valley Ranch around 4 p.m. Tuesday and drove home in rush-hour traffic, arriving at his Exposition Park loft around 5:30 p.m.
That’s when the physical trauma began.
At Primm’s direction, Owens had been taking about 30 supplements a day, up from his normal six, “to accelerate the healing process,” the trainer said. The supplements included “all different types of calcium, all different types of magnesium … a few different types of glandulars,” Primm said. “Things for the immune system, to get blood to that area.”
He said he had also been using a $40,000 laser device on Owens’ injury.
“Five minutes on the bottom of the hand, five minutes on the top” first thing in the morning, Primm said. That had accelerated the healing process, he said, in addition to another device about the size of a breadbox, into which Owens inserted a gloved hand wrapped in a towel to help “dissolve scar tissue.”
Primm said that under normal circumstances, the machine designed to remove scar tissue “just knocks you out. It makes you sleepy.”
He said the machine has the dual effect of “getting rid of scar tissue and of cells the body isn’t using.” Such therapy is vital, he said, in allowing bones to heal as rapidly as possible.
It was Primm who introduced Owens to such devices and to the hyperbaric chamber, which he said enabled the athlete to play in Super Bowl XXXIX in February 2005 for the Philadelphia Eagles, despite suffering a broken leg only weeks before.
But the combination of this week’s events was apparently too much, the trainer said.
As for what comes next, Primm predicts that Owens will play Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. And how will he fare for the rest of the season?
“Great,” the trainer said.
Just hours after News 8 first broadcast details of a Dallas police report that said Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide Tuesday night, Owens was back at the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch training center catching some passes from quarterback Drew Bledsoe.
“There was no suicide attempt,” Owens said. “The rumor of me taking 35 pills, I think, is absurd. I don’t think I would be here had I taken 35 pills.”
Owens also said he wanted to dispel any rumors that he had had his stomach pumped. “That is definitely untrue,” he said.
A police report said Owens, who broke his right hand in a Sept. 17 game, took prescription pain pills. The report said a woman told police she observed Owens putting two pills in his mouth.
According to the police narrative, the woman said the prescription of 40 pills was filled on September 18 and—until Tuesday—Owens had taken only five pills.
The police report said Owens was asked if he had taken the rest of the prescription; Owens said, “Yes.”
According to the report, police also asked if he was trying to harm himself. Owens answered, “Yes.”
Owens was treated at Baylor University Medical Center.
“He seemed to be in good spirits and looked like he was looking forward to getting back on the field as soon as he could,” quarterback Bledsoe said. “I was happy to see him here and happy to see him running around and going. … Obviously, he’s doing fine.”
Owens told a close friend that prescription drug overdose was a “mistake.”
Owens gave a “thumbs up” sign to reporters as he left the hospital Wednesday morning, got into a sport utility vehicle and was driven away.
T.O.’s friend and former Cowboys star, Michael Irvin, said he talked with Owens by telephone on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday morning.
“He said, ‘Michael, I’m trying to get back on the football field. I went out catching passes yesterday, and when I got home, my hand was really hurting,’” Irvin quoted Owens as saying. “‘I mistakenly took a lot of supplements with painkillers and I took too many of them.’”
Former Cowboys star Deion Sanders said he also talked to Owens and the receiver “laughed at that notion” of it being a suicide attempt. He added that Owens was in good spirits.
“It was a case that medication that was taken wasn’t accepted well in his system with the other vitamins he’s on,” Sanders told the NFL Network, where he works as an analyst.
An increasingly agitated Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells met with reporters Wednesday afternoon, saying he didn’t yet have a “clear picture” of what happened to Owens.
“Let me find out what the heck’s going on,” Parcells said. “I don’t think something of this nature is what I would term a distraction. It’s apparently a set of unfortunate circumstances and I’d rather be clear on what they are before I comment on the future.”
Parcells said he planned to continue getting his team ready for the next game at Tennessee on Sunday.
“When I find out what the hell is going on, you will know. Until then, I’m not getting interrogated for no reason,” Parcells said as he angrily left the news conference after being peppered with Owens-related questions for nine minutes.
Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple offered this brief statement Wednesday afternoon: “We have been in the process of trying to determine the facts regarding his medical condition. Our concerns right now are for his health and well-being.”
Dalrymple said the Cowboys could not comment on Owens’ playing status until the team receives additional information about his condition.
“This is stunning news, obviously, and incredibly surprising that a man in this position would reach this level of depression,” said WFAA-TV sports director Dale Hansen. “There’s something terribly wrong here, and hopefully we’ll find out as the day goes on.”
At a news conference, police spokesman Lt. Rick Watson confirmed that Dallas Fire-Rescue requested police officers in the 3800 block of Commerce Street Tuesday night. “When the officers got there, they were greeted by the paramedics who were treating Mr. Owens,” he said.
“We determined at this time this is not a criminal offense,” Lt. Watson said, refusing to answer any specific questions about the incident.
“If you want the 911 tape, you’ll have to make the request to the fire department,” Lt. Watson added.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Joel Lavender said paramedics responded to the call for help within three minutes and were able to transport the patient to the “nearest medical facility” in less than one minute.
He declined to provide further details about the incident. “This isn’t just a minor issue; this is coast-to-coast, and that’s why you’re all here,” Lavender said to the throng of reporters peppering him with questions.
Hansen said a source at the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch headquarters told him that doors to all offices were closed early Wednesday.
The player’s publicist didn’t immediately return calls for comment.
Owens, one of the league’s top receivers during his 11-year NFL career, is best known for wild stunts on the field and other publicity-seeking antics off it.
When the Cowboys signed him to a $25 million, three-year deal in March, they said their background checks indicated no red flags. In fact, team consultant Calvin Hill—who mostly deals with troubled players—said during training camp that his department was not involved with Owens because he didn’t have a history of those kinds of problems.
Owens was seen laughing and joking on the practice field Tuesday morning. He chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room in the afternoon and seemed fine. A 2-inch scar on the top of his hand was puffy but not wrapped, and he said the swelling was going down.
While in the locker room, he took a pill from a white paper bag and looked at another medicine bottle that was in the bag. He also called a business partner about a towel-wrap venture they’re starting and joked to TV cameras that he wasn’t talking until Wednesday and today was only Tuesday.
“My little boy knows better than that,” he said, laughing, as he plopped onto a sofa in the middle of the locker room.
Also Tuesday, Owens was involved in launching a national campaign for the National Alliance to End Abuse, an organization aimed at helping at-risk youngsters. He appeared at a high school Tuesday morning and was scheduled to visit others but had to cancel because of changes in the team’s practice schedule.
Owens has played two games for the Cowboys, catching nine passes for 99 yards and a touchdown.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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I had to laugh out loud watching Michael Irvin get up out of his seat in the background! hahahaha! Or maybe I’ve just had one too many drinks tonight!
With the power to make household names out of relative unknowns like Kelly Monaco and Stacy Keibler and to reignite the careers of dwindling wattage celebs like Lisa Rinna and John O’Hurley, getting cast on “Dancing with the Stars” has become the hottest ticket in Hollywood.
TMZ has learned that retired NFL running back Emmitt Smith and former child star Joey Lawrence are the latest “stars” to jump aboard the ABC groove train and will shake their moneymakers on the TV juggernaut this fall.
While ABC won’t confirm the final roster, Vivica A. Fox has gone on record saying she has already been cast.
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Check out the latest Mambo kings and queens when the new season of “Dancing with the Stars” premieres on September 12.
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TMZ has just learned that Shanna Moakler from MTV’s “Meet the Barkers” has been added to the lineup.
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Troy Aikman, his voice sometimes cracking, praised former teammates, coaches and friends in his Pro Football Hall of Fame acceptance speech today in Canton, Ohio. “I was able to live a dream,” Aikman said.
