Terrell Owens
When you are incredibly talented at what you do, your employer typically values you and wants to keep you around. Well, TO is an example of what happens when you are incredibly talented and an incredible distraction to your team. Terrell Owens will go down as one of the most decorated wide receivers in NFL history, but his legacy will be tarnished because of how much controversy he brought to nearly every stop in his career.
TO played for six teams over his 15-year career, which is easy to do when you verbally assault your quarterbacks, coaches and offensive staff. While extremely productive, most teams were glad to see the back of the selfishly vocal Owens when he left.
In San Francisco, Owens made remarks to Playboy magazine suggesting that his quarterback, Jeff Garcia, was gay. In Philadelphia, he publicly questioned quarterback Donovan McNabb’s conditioning after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl, and had a very public holdout for more money (which included plenty of interviews where he made negative comments about the team’s front office and ownership). In Dallas, he had public outbursts when he felt he wasn’t being used correctly in the offense, and also never shied away from making public comments about whatever was on his mind. Let’s put it this way… Terrell Owens made Keyshawn Johnson look like an angel, and that’s saying a lot!