Terrell Owens Hospitalized After Calling 911 for Possible Pill Overdose
- Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:45pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Any hope for headline-grabbing Wide Receiver Terrell Owens to make an NFL comeback may have bitten the dust. TMZ.com reports that emergency officials were responding to a call about a possible prescription pill overdose when they were dispatched to the L.A. apartment where Owens was staying last week.
Owens has since been released from a California hospital, and a rep for Owens had no comment to TMZ on the matter.
Owens underwent surgery this summer to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament and is a free agent. He recently underwent stem-cell treatment in Korea and said that he could be playing “in a month or less,” reports the Washington Post. Owens is known for his sometimes odd behavior on the sidelines and in postgame interviews, like this famous reaction to a question following a Dallas Cowboys playoff loss in 2008:
Owens, often referred to as T.O. (and Team Obliterate to ESPN analyst Skip Bayless), was hospitalized in 2006 after having a bad reaction to painkillers. In w006 T.O. denied reports that followed his hospitalization that the wide reciever had attempted to commit suicide by ingesting 35 Vicodin pills.
“I’m not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn’t expect you to waste my time,” Owens told ESPN of his possible comeback. “When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.”
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Z_only1
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:32amYou know what they say about karma.
Report Post »PApeacemaker
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:41pmI see a similar future for him as Lawrence Taylor. He may not be hitting the crack pipe but I bet he’s abusing prescription pain killers. I would NEVER let this moron on my team or in my locker room his talent ran out about a decade ago he sucked on the cowgirls & for every other team hes been on since. I can’t believe VH1 even wasted there money following around this nut job. I bet he drops dead in the next 10 years one way or another.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:27amWho would want this egotist on their team. Football is all he has and now that it‘s over the big spoiled baby wants to commit suicide because he’s not a big shot any more. Boo hoo T.O. cry me a river you over paid spoiled rotten creatin. He will end up homeless in a park or worse. Grow up.
Report Post »greensteam
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 8:10amyou must reallize that his antics on and off the field are choreograghed by his publicist and are all intentional to gain attention. It attracts certain sponsers who are running specific campaigns around football or mascullinity. i dont think the possible overdoses are intentional, but his attitude is. when you saw him cry after losing a playoff game and sticking up for tony romo, that is the real T.O. a guy who wears his heart on his shirt sleave. btw i am not a fan of his…
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:20amNFL=National Felon League… especially the Cincinnati Bengals…it‘s my hometown team and I wouldn’t pay a penny to see these asswipes on the field.. they’re despicable human trash..
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 7:25amWhat do you expect. Scouts grab these kids outta the Hood, and the hood never really leaves them they just get rich. Getting rich without morals is not good.
Report Post »PattiR
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:34pmWell- I love T.O. I think he’s an easy target. Sure, he spouts off from time to time, but he’s a real talent who should be playing football.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:58pmwho?
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:18pmToo bad his momma didn’t teach him the reason to live is Jesus, Not football or pills !
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:14pmTry holding down a REAL job. That will make you cry, spoiled rotten, retarded NFL players. You’re over paid and have way too much free time to screw up.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:57pmOnly on The Blaze do some of the country’s biggest losers get to pretend to be superior, in any way, to a world-class athlete. You Blaze Losers are lazy, broke nobodies. Deal with it (or don’t. No one cares)
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:23pmSounds like someone here pissed in your Fruity Pebbles and made you look like a schmuck. Btw, by virtue of your screen name it seems you may be BROKER.
Aren’t you the same numbnut that was prancing around on your posts offering $10.00 an hour unlimited to make cold calls for you? Lmao. Friggin’ telemarketers… you’re on our phones and now on the internet bugging the crap out of us. Take your sham-wow and shove it up your hey-now. Lol.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:27pmI get the idea from your post that athletes are superior to hard working Americans. If that’s so, why don’t you raise them for entertainment purposes only. Feed them drugs and see how much more exciting sports can be. If they die at 35 years old, who cares? There’s more where they came from.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:47pmSomebodies got a crush!
Report Post »Cavy from VA
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:27pmWelcome to the club … Freakin Troll Airhead!
Report Post »wethepublic
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:53pmIs there one story in the news that isn’t manufactured nonsense? Is this it? Is this the only one? Because it looks like the Pentagon is going for a world’s record this week
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mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:49pmSee the truth at http://www.BiggestPilesOfManufacturedBS.com/moron
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:52pmDo they still offer classes in ebonics? I think there is one for spanglish also.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:41pmO.D. on popcorn?
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:39pmTO is a pill poper, there goes any chance for a SB ring like he had a chance the cry baby.
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:37pmTerrell Owens, Kobe Bryant, Hines Ward, Peyton Manning, the list goes on and on of athletes jetting overseas to get these stem cell treatments that are either regulated or banned in America. Stems cell from fat or marrow have been shown to reverse aging, repair damaged heart tissue, and possibly cure cancer. We allow stem cells from blood only.
Will banning highly effective stem cell treatments keep people from being treated? Well obviously no…
Will it keep it so only the rich can afford to jet over seas and obtain such life saving treatments? Common sense..
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:44pmIt’s all our command and control Government. They say they have their finger on the pulse of America …I think they have their finger up their backside pulling crap out of their a@@es then flinging it on the American people. You are right, get the government out of our lives.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:28pm.
Report Post »This is not his first overdose, tried to commit suicide when he played for Dallas………..
sportlock
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:38pmDidn’t his rep say he had something like 27 million reasons to live?$?$?$?$
Report Post »Gzeee1969
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:51pmSome people just don’t know when to say when!!! Give it up T.O.!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:27pm“When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.”
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Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. I am glad the Bengals got rid of T-Zero and Oucho Stinko. T-Zero was lazy, didn’t give his all, but thought he was hot stuff. He wouldn’t even jump or reach out for the ball. Why any team would pay him is beyond me, except for the name.
Oucho Stinko was too stupid and worried about his image, to play. When he first came on the scene, he was hungry, but then got a swollen head and was never the same. This seems to happen to half the athletes in the NFL.
motonutt
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:32pmI don’t know what T.O.’s beliefs are….but hopefully he will conect or re-conect which ever the case may be with God from all this. Sometimes an incident like this will wake a person up to turn to God.
Report Post »Let’s hope this is the case.
Dalady
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:03pmI heard that T.O. and Stinko complained to that guy in the White House that their taxes are too high.
Cry me a river. They surely voted for him.
I am 53
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:24pmNarcissist Felon League
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:50pmJust another union goon. Just say yo. For those who don’t understand, that was ebonics.
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:22pmjust happened to flick on TO’s reality show, he was very genuine in the episode i saw, see him in a different light now, used to think he was an out of control arrogant multi-millionaire athlete, not so much anymore, seems to be humbled a bit..best of luck and health to TO…
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:50pmHas to be alot harder being humble when everyone around you is telling you that you’re better then everyone else. I mean look at Hollywood, 99% would be working as a garbage man if they didn‘t get lucky or a mommy or daddy didn’t pull some strings for them.
Every Baldwin kid has talent? C’mon, most of Hollywood is merely a product of opportunity due to connections, not talent.
Least Terrell Owens earned his
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