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[man on speaker] Pro football was born right here in Canton, Ohio

almost a hundred years ago.

We're about to meet the class of 2018.

[Rich] The 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame,

you could say that this is one of the greatest classes of all time.

And yet, there's a lot of conversation about who's not here.

Terrell Owens.

[Mariucci] He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame,

and he should be enjoying the festivities.

I only wish he were here with he and his family and friends

enjoying all of this emotion and praise and honor,

and everything that he just won't be able to get in Chattanooga.

[cheers and applause]

[Terrell through speakers] Many of you may be wondering

why we're here instead of Canton.

There's been a lot of speculation as to why I chose not to be there.

I would like to set the record straight.

[man] T.O. Master interview, take one.

T.O. Master interview, take two.

T.O. Master interview, take three.

- [claps] - [dramatic music playing]

[Terrell] The person that people think that I am

is nowhere even close to who I am.

Growing up in Alabama, you'd say I was kind of like an enigma.

I was an introvert at heart...

[crowd cheering]

...but my football persona was very extroverted.

That was the beginning of creating a monster.

[crowd chanting] T.O.! T.O.! T.O.! T.O.!

[narrator] T.O., the unmistakable initials of a unique talent.

Few players in NFL history put on a show quite like Terrell Owens...

Go get your popcorn ready. Come on now.

[narrator] ...on and off the field.

[reporter] You can't be an Eagle anymore?

No comment.

Now, the news media has since called him a moron, an idiot, and a jerk.

He crosses that line.

Give me the fucking ball!

My man, Terrell Owens, I nicknamed him "Team Obliterator."

I'm gonna speak my mind. Sometimes the truth hurts.

Terrell's career off the field was one long incident.

The Dallas Cowboys can have T.O.

because he's filled with nothing but baggage.

[crowd chanting] OD, OD, OD...

OD, OD...

[Terrell] They still love to hate me, bruh.

But I love me some me.

[commentator 1] He goes deep.

Open is Owens, touchdown!

[Rice] Terrell just had something...

different about him.

[commentator 2] And Owens, I guess, he'd been rehearsing.

The world was designed to look at him.

[commentator] He did not just take the pompoms and start cheering.

[chuckles]

[Young] And through it all, what did he do?

[commentator] And a tremendous catch on the near side by Owens.

He played great football.

[narrator] Owens terrorized secondaries, ranking second in receiving yards,

and third in receiving touchdowns.

I'm in a league of my own. They ain't ready for me.

[commentator] And what a catch by Owens.

[Romo] With his passion and love for the game and his ability,

he's rare and special.

[music continues]

[Terrell through speakers] To the critics and doubters,

those individuals who have defamed me behind my back,

this is for you.

[cheers and applause]

[Terrell] There was really two sides of me.

There's Terrell,

and then, there's T.O.

Now, I'm older, I want people to hear and see the truth.

Everything that I did, man, I did it for my family.

[through speakers] If you've been or you've felt misunderstood,

please stand up.

If you've ever felt like a-- like an outcast,

please stand up.

To everyone that has felt like given up, please stand up.

If you're standing up,

don't be afraid...

[crowd cheering]

...to be you.

[fireworks explosions]

- [man laughs] - [woman] Just...

[woman speaks indistinctly]

- Mike, how I look? - [Mike] You look great, brother.

- I look... - [Mike] You look good.

- You sound good, too. - Oh, okay. Cool. Thanks.

That's a plus.

[woman speaks indistinctly]

[Terrell] Reflecting back on how I got to where I am,

my upbringing,

and how my career unfolded.

Um...

[ambient music playing]

I just-- I wish I could go back and do a few things differently.

[crowd cheering]

Okay. Last question. You get to write the script.

What are the best things that could happen? The fairytale ending.

In football, I would say that I get drafted

at least in second or third round, very high.

- [reporter] By? - It really doesn't matter.

[George] Before the draft, I heard about him.

"Coach, there's this kid at Chattanooga that's gonna be a great player.

His name is Terrell Owens.

He's a big 6'3" receiver, 215 pounds...

that can run like a deer."

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] One to beat, it could be-- Touchdown!

[George] Very quiet and very humble.

If the NFL works out, I'm gonna be happy.

[Terrell] In the '96 draft, first day went by, first round pick. Second day went by.

And so, I was just like, "Well, I'm probably gonna go the following day.

I was probably gonna go to the next round, the fourth round."

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] Terrell Owens, wide receiver, just went to San Francisco.

San Francisco was a surprise. I had no idea that they were gonna draft me,

third round with the 89th pick.

[reporter] He's from a small school, has a lot to prove.

[George] Coming into San Francisco from Tennessee, Chattanooga is different.

It's a culture shock.

[Terrell] Chattanooga's the farthest I had been from Alabama,

where I was raised.

Going from UT Chattanooga to now thrust into,

like, a machine of excellence.

[commentator] Young, quick pass, slid in. Jerry Rice, another touchdown.

[Terrell] Just won a Super Bowl like, two years prior.

[yells]

The head coach at the time, George Seifert, great coach.

Hey, there's nothing beside my family in life that I love more than the 49ers.

So I'm like, "Man, I just knew at some point,

being with the Niners, I was gonna win a Super Bowl."

I just felt that.

[commentator] San Francisco 49ers are the first team

to win five Super Bowl championships.

[Terrell] It was exciting at the same time,

but it was a little bit overwhelming.

[air horn blares]

[man] White 90. Set.

[light music playing]

[man] Go, go, go, go. Now, go.

I remember at first, he's like, "Yes, sir."

Like, "Terrell, you can't call me sir, bro."

[Terrell] He said, "Quit saying it. If you say it one more time,

I'm not gonna throw you the ball anymore." He literally told me that.

[Young] He was green and full of desire and talent,

wanting to please and wanting to be great, and not knowing what was even possible.

Jerry Rice is the hardest working man I've ever seen,

and Terrell saw that and responded.

[Terrell] This dude is like a machine.

He was out there early before practice.

He's running to every drill. He's the first person in the drill.

I got to see and know why he's considered the greatest of all time.

[Rice] I took on that role of being a mentor.

He was hungry, he was determined, and I knew that I had to bring my game.

And I think he had the same respect. He knew that he had to bring his game.

[dramatic music playing]

Coming from Chattanooga, he didn't have a lot of routes that he ran.

Once you get to the NFL,

there's a plethora of routes you have to learn and run.

[Terrell] I thought when you got drafted, you were on the team.

And then, I saw people start to get cut.

[indistinct chatter]

[Terrell] So once I started to see those things happen,

I got extremely nervous because I'm like, "Oh, I'm gonna be next."

I didn't wanna go back home,

so I literally took the extra time at night.

I would study, look over plays.

Right before cuts, I got him aside, and I said, "Hey, man."

I said, "Listen, you're gonna be okay.

You're gonna make the team, but at the same time,

you gotta continue to grow and invest."

And boy, I'm talking about when he told me that,

I lit up like a Christmas tree on the inside.

[indistinct chatter]

[Terrell] I know that I couldn't be Jerry after a while.

I'm like, I can't do what he does because we have two different body types.

But I could be a better, more physical version

of what everybody had seen.

[crowd cheering]

- Let's go, baby! Let's win this. - [Young] A more physical wide receiver,

someone who could put your hands on the corner and make things happen.

[Terrell] But I was struggling with guys right in front of my face.

I could obviously physically just go through 'em,

but I couldn't do that for every route.

I think the first thing Terrell needed to learn

was to be a little bit more elusive at the line of scrimmage.

- [man 1] That's good points. - [man 2] That's a good point, Terrell.

[Terrell] Coach Kirksey, he watched me for like weeks.

Finally, he pulled me to the side and he was like,

"I've done a little research on you."

He's like, "You claim to be a basketball player."

And I was like, "I do."

I said, "I played in high school, and I played in college."

Basketball, that was always my love.

[Larry] I love guys who play basketball.

That means they got good change of direction, good footwork.

And he had that.

He could go one, two, and crossover and be gone.

[man exclaims]

I said, "Just pretend you're playing basketball."

And I was like, "Yo!"

If that conversation was like a cartoon,

it would have been a big bubble over my head

with a light bulb that just went off.

[commentator] The receiver, Terrell Owens.

[crowd cheering]

Rookie, who they say is gonna be something before he's through.

[Madden] I remember seeing him in training camp,

and he looks to me like he's gonna be the next guy.

[Terrell] Once I started and got a taste of what I could be,

I became obsessed with trying to be and learning to be better.

[Pat] Owens, big target over the middle.

[George] I remember Terrell, first road trip,

all the fans around Jerry, who's signing autographs.

He had this nice suit on, and Terrell was back there with me

with his old shaving bag.

And I think it had tape, like athletic tape on the bottom

to keep the bottom from falling out.

And I think his toothbrush fell out or something.

But I told Terrell,

"You keep working the way you work, that's gonna be you."

[Terrell] You could tell I was a rookie. I dressed like a rookie.

I didn't have the flashy things that some of the veterans had,

but I quickly adjusted.

[Monique] I met Terrell my junior year in college.

At the time he was a rookie.

One of my close friends, she was dating one of his teammates at the time.

He was really young, and I was young, and he wasn't as sociable,

I would say, as he is now. [laughs]

And so, then, you know, I just like thinking to myself,

"Okay, this guy doesn't really talk much."

And he had braces.

At first, it wasn't real serious or anything, just casual dating.

He was in a new environment coming from a small town in the south,

then coming to a big metro city like San Francisco Bay Area.

It was a new world, something different than where he came from.

[Terrell] I was on a rookie contract,

and that's not enough for a house or anything.

It's in the Bay Area.

So I went back home to Alabama. I stayed with my grandmama.

I remember I used to go to the house a lot.

That used to be a bootlegger's house.

She used to buy liquor and stuff out of this house.

So I used to go to the house all the time.

Then that's my grandmama's house right there.

When I played in the league, and I used to stay here,

I used to train,

and I literally used to jump rope right here in front of the house.

And I used to run either from that pole to that pole,

just for conditioning, or I'd run from that pole to that pole.

So yeah, this is pretty much where I grew up.

- [man] Mr. T. - Hey, mate.

Sure you didn't sell me this bike?

- There goes grandmama in the yard. - [man] Oh, yeah?

[Terrell] I was raised by my grandmama who passed in 2012.

- No more raking? - [Terrell laughs]

[Terrell] Raised by her and my mama, Marilyn.

- Can you tell? - [Terrell] Where you at?

I was 16 years old when I found out I was pregnant with Terrell.

I had three more children after Terrell.

Between us, there's four of us. So Terrell's the oldest.

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey... - [Terrell laughs]

- [Sharmaine] Then Tasha's next. - [Terrell on video] Hey, Sharmaine.

[Sharmaine] Then we have myself.

[indistinct chatter]

[Terrell] Hey, little Vic. How you doing, Vic?

Then we have Victor. He's the baby.

Growing up in Alexander City, it was just a small town, close-knit.

During the school year, we were living with my grandmama.

[Sharmaine] She had her rules, and her rules were her rules.

She wouldn't allow the kids to watch television.

[Terrell] We would come home from school,

go across the street to my neighbor's house

to catch up on soap operas that aired during the course of the day.

General Hospital, used to love that show.

I made sure I was in the yard by the time she got back to the house,

or we were gonna get a butt-whipping.

By 7:00 or 8:00, we were in the bed.

My bed was right on the street side,

and so, I would still hear them playing in the streets, playing in the road.

If you know my grandmama, she was a no-nonsense type of person.

She didn't take no shit from nobody.

I'm the way that I am because of her.

This is my grandmama's house.

The house is relatively small.

As you can see, we're renovating it. They just brought in some sheetrock.

This was the living room. This is where the couch was.

This is my room.

I could still hear the kids out in the street,

my friends out in the street.

When I was in the bed, it was...

- [Victor] 7:00. - ...7:00, 7:30, 8:00.

- [Victor] 7:00. - That was it.

[Victor] Another bedroom...

[Terrell] She basically raised us how she was raised.

There was a bed in here.

I remember I got my butt whopped one time in here.

I was hiding. I hid up under the bed.

I can't remember exactly what I did, but she whooped my butt,

and I was calling for the police.

[Marilyn] When she was strict with my children,

they wouldn't have to tell me because I already knew,

because I grew up the same way.

[Terrell] You had to be on like...

- Pins and needles, yeah. - Like you was on eggshells

because anything would seem like would set her off

if it wasn't something that she felt like was appropriate,

or whatever the case may have been.

We just couldn't talk, you know what I mean?

We just really didn't communicate.

And then, yeah, it was just like--

my grandmama, she's like-- we just couldn't say much.

We didn't question it. As we were younger, we didn't question.

She was like, "Don't go out of the yard. don't ride that bike out of the yard."

Yeah, we didn't go out of the yard either because if you went out of the yard,

you did something that she told you not to do,

you're gonna remember it.

[dramatic music playing]

Growing up, I wasn't the most attractive. I was scrawny.

I got teased for being dark-skinned.

There was an incident on the bus. Dude spit in my mouth while I was asleep.

I was scared to say anything.

I had self-esteem issues.

Sports was an outlet.

They gave me a lot of confidence to getting bigger and stronger,

and I could defend myself.

It was a defense mechanism.

There's a lot of things that he had to deal with growing up as a young kid.

There's trust issues with other kids because I can't trust to leave my yard.

And when he first got to San Francisco, trust was a huge deal with him.

[Carmen] The San Francisco 49ers are very pleased to announce

that Steve Mariucci has been appointed the head coach.

[reporter] Mariucci takes over

after only one year of head coaching experience.

[Mariucci] I understand what I'm getting into.

This has been the most successful franchise

in pro football over the last 15 years, and I understand that I have huge...

shoes to fill.

[Terrell] After my rookie year, George Seifert got fired.

Everybody was kinda surprised.

So now I'm in my second year. This is my second coach.

Coach Mariucci was a young coach.

There were players older than him.

Being a coach at Cal growing up and being in the Bay Area,

he saw these guys. Now, he's coaching these guys.

So I didn't really know what to expect.

Steve Young, are you participating today?

So you think if you-- if you skip, pat, and go,

that you get all the seven on seven throws, huh?

- [Young] Yeah. - You're killing me already.

We just started.

Mooch's the kind of guy that is hard to get cross with.

Initially, the relationship, it was great.

[Ray] Into the end zone, leaping to catch it.

Terrell Owens, what a job over Todd Lyght.

[Mariucci] Great play. Great play, man.

[Madden] He's gonna be a star for a long time in this league, Terrell Owens.

[Terrell] I'm feeling really good about the trajectory of my skill set

and what I can help do.

Trying to develop myself and enhance my ability as a receiver

to become as good as I could be.

And in the process, it became a relentless pursuit of greatness.

[Ray] Just short of the end zone, it is caught.

Owens catches the ball, takes a long step in, touchdown 49ers!

Atta baby!

[man] Whoo!

[Rice] We knew that he's gonna do everything possible

to help you win.

It was just so exciting to watch it unfold.

[Pat] The playoff atmosphere is here. This feels like a championship game.

[Madden] The 49ers have had a very successful season,

but I think the one thing that has kept it negative

is not beating the Green Bay Packers.

We were in a little bit of a rut with the Packers.

[Pat] Young gets away from him, gets the ball to Owens.

[commentator] Fumbles. The Packers have it.

[Young] Because of that, when Terrell dropped a couple passes...

[commentator 1] Young gets it out. Incomplete.

Wide open is Owens and dropped it.

[commentator 2] I don't believe it! Terrell Owens dropped the ball.

[Young] ...it was an environment where it was like conflated.

[Madden] He couldn't see it.

He was like overwrought about it. Like, "I can't believe I dropped it."

Like, "Terrell, don't worry about it. It's coming."

[Pat] Young throws outside, and the pass is dropped by Owens.

[Madden] I don't know that I've ever seen Terrell Owens

play as poorly as he is today.

[Young] And he was just like,

"I don't know what's wrong. I can't believe that's happened."

I was like, "Terrell, it's coming again."

[Pat] The 49ers had the ball at their own 24, trailing by four.

[Madden] They have to get a touchdown here.

[Pat] Young fires.

Stokes has it open, first guy, Owens drops again.

Stokes. There is Jerry Rice's catch.

Young gets it to Garrison Hearst.

[Pat] Eight seconds left.

[commentator] San Francisco will have one crack at it.

He did not wanna be the one for them to say,

"T.O. lost this game with all the drops," you know what I'm saying?

He'd have never lived that down.

[Young] We were all on edge.

[Pat] Young almost falls down.

[Young] There was a spot to be open, and he found it.

[Pat] Throws to the end zone. Owens! Owens!

Owens! Owens!

[Young] And we just put it in there.

[Pat] He caught it! He caught it! He caught it!

Terrell Owens got the ball, and he makes the winning touchdown catch.

[Young] Terrell's just thanking me. "Thanks for believing in me."

So grateful that you didn't lose faith in him,

that you believed in him, and that he could be that guy.

Terrell started weeping, and when you talk about Terrell Owens,

that's how I feel about him.

It's the weeping Terrell Owens, so grateful.

[George] For Steve to have trust in him,

to throw him at the biggest point of the game,

that was a big deal.

[commentator] And who would ever believe such a thing could occur?

[man] That was great, man. That was great. That was great.

You never gave up.

[Terrell] With the group of guys that were with me

and stayed with me on the sideline

and told me I was gonna have to make a big play,

Steve gave me a chance, and I appreciate every teammate I got in here.

- [man] Yes, sir. - [crowd cheering]

You know, we had a great locker room.

We had a lot of leadership and a lot of things that T.O. could model.

That sense that I'm safe 'cause I'm surrounded by people that I trust,

people that you could count on.

[ambient music playing]

[Terrell] I was like ten, 11, 12, somewhere in there.

I'm starting to find girls attractive,

and I end up started to like one of the girls

that was across the street from me.

My other sisters saw that I kind of had a crush,

and so they was like, "Terrell likes Lisa."

I do remember being in the neighbor's house,

and he's saying something along the lines that,

"You can't like Lisa or whatever." I'm like, "What are you talking about?"

And he just basically just shared with me that Lisa was my sister.

So all these years, my dad lived right across the street.

[producer] You just knew him as your neighbor?

- Yeah. - [producer] You just knew...

Right. Yeah, he lived literally directly across the street from me.

My mom had me, I think she was around 16.

That's tough. She's a kid.

He was obviously much older at that time.

But back then, people just didn't say anything.

I looked, that is my grandmama and my mama.

They had served the spot and space of what he was supposed to serve.

My grandmama, she was-- she was so strict.

I mean, she was just as strong as a man.

And there was things obviously as a woman, she can't teach me,

you know, being a boy growing up.

But I tried to learn things on the fly.

To be extraordinary,

sometimes you have to go through things that are ordinary.

[Terrell] How I was raised impacted my first years.

I was aloof. I was socially awkward. I didn't talk to everybody.

I wasn't a social butterfly.

[commentator] From Tennessee, Chattanooga, number 81, Terrell Owens!

- [Terrell] Who the hell they say? - 81.

- [Terrell] What? - 81, baby.

If you say that one more time, I'm going off.

[Terrell in interview] Once I started to emerge from the shadow of Jerry...

[Terrell] Hey, Stokes.

[in interview] ...football became a form of entertainment.

I'll let everyone know if you got your popcorn ready.

[commentator] Looks to the left the side of the end zone,

touchdown 49ers.

[Jerry R laughs] The weirdest thing about Terrell, Terrell was so quiet.

And then, later on, you couldn't shut him up.

You ain't seen T.O. or nothing yet.

They want a show. They about to get one.

I wasn't like a star in high school, and I wasn't a star in college.

And so, now I'm on a team,

playing primetime games pretty much every weekend,

and I was just a kid, having joy, just having fun with the game.

[commentator] Unbelievable.

[dramatic music playing]

Terrell was just before his time.

[commentator] He throws deep middle to Owens, he's alone inside the 20,

dragging a defender with him, breaks the tackle of McKenzie

and walks in to the end zone. Touchdown 49ers.

[commentator] He did not just take the pompoms and start cheering.

Every Sunday, like people would go to ESPN to see what I did.

[commentator 1] Going deep. Owens on this side

and just makes the catch. Touchdown.

- [commentator 2] Is that a pen? - [commentator 1] Yeah.

[laughs]

He had a pen in his sock,

and he pulled it out and autographed the ball.

[commentator 2] That's a first.

Growing up, Terrell thought he was the second coming of Michael Jackson.

[sighs]

[Marilyn] Jacket, the gloves with the glitter on him, penny loafers.

[Terrell] My pants was up. You know I mean?

- [man laughs] - [Terrell] Had the curl going...

and I had to move, so that's all I needed.

Hey, hey, hey.

[in interview] That was my motivation for getting into the end zone.

I can't dance if I don't score.

[commentator 1] And this pass is caught by Terrell Owens. Touchdown.

[commentator 2] Great effort by Terrell Owens.

[commentator 1] See, that's like-- that's how quarterbacks dance.

- You see that dance? - [commentator 2] Look at his eyes.

[commentator 1] They dance from the waist up.

[Terrell] I was displaying a different brand of football.

I was offering something

that they had never seen from a guy my size.

And so, I was kind of a remix to the received position.

This was the birth of T.O.

San Francisco is where he was born.

Let's go!

I met T at a celebrity basketball game that Magic Johnson was doing.

Later on that night, we're going to the party,

and there's a long line.

I hear somebody go, "Shaw."

I look back, and it's T.

I'm like, "Yo, bro, what you-- what you doing in line, man?"

I said, "Man, come here, man. Come here, bro."

I said, "Man, who you with, man?"

"Oh, dawg, I'm from Alabama, man. I just be rolling by myself."

And I would just introduce him to celebrities,

like, "Yo, this is my boy. This is Terrell Owens."

I mispronounced his name, so he said, "Just call me T.O."

Let's go, T.O.

[Shaw] At first, nobody know who he was.

But that first year or two, he just--

that guy can't go nowhere.

[commentator] Runs past another to make it down to the end zone.

[Monique] His popularity was growing at that time.

[commentator] Touchdown 49ers.

[Monique] Me and Terrell, we would just, you know, hang out,

go to parties, clubs, and, you know, all these different events.

And then, probably a couple months later,

I'm in LA, I had a test done,

and it came back that I was pregnant.

He was just really excited to be a dad, you could tell.

And he got to bond with Terique as a baby.

But Terrell was just so into his career at the time.

He was like, "You know, I'll support you," but he's not--

he's not really ready to be in a committed relationship,

at least not with me.

- I see your belly. - [laughs]

But he definitely wanted to be a very involved father to Terique.

[dramatic music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Steve Y sighs] Hi.

[camera shutters clicking]

Obviously, this is a tough decision.

Retiring at 38 is-- in some ways, it's--

You know, it sucks, you know.

[laughter]

Because you feel like you're just in the middle of great relationships.

[commentator] In his first NFL start,

Jeff Garcia takes the place of Steve Young today.

A lot of change happened, not just Jeff,

kind of all at once.

And it pushed him into a leadership role

that I don't know that it was time yet.

We're going to have to win the game! We're going to have to win the game!

Let's get our asses off, and let's go, man.

[Young] With more and more complex relationships coming,

and more and more fame, and more and more money,

he needed some big brothers around.

And I don't know that there were as many as he needed.

When he was just starting to figure out, starting to have some commonality,

starting to feel comfortable, and then, it's gone.

[Young] Don't forget your family.

- Hey, what's up, bro? I miss you, man. - [Young] Oh, I know. I miss you too.

All right, man. I appreciate it. I appreciate everything, man.

[Jemele] Now you have three interesting elements.

You have a young coach,

a young quarterback, and a young wide receiver.

Who's guiding the ship?

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] Back at Texas Stadium.

First meeting between the 49ers and the Cowboys since '97.

[Jeff] We have the game in Dallas. They claim to be America's team

and God's stadium.

[commentator] This rivalry, one of the best in sports.

[Jeff] T.O. was a guy who had an agenda.

[commentator] Garcia curling right, pass, the touchdown, Terrell Owens.

[Jeff] Dallas had a hole in the stadium,

and it was said, "So God could look down on America's team."

[commentator] Where's he going?

[Terrell] I go to the middle of the field, and I look up, you know.

As I'm looking up to God like, "Yo, here I am."

[commentator 1] Emmett Smith, touchdown.

He's going to the center of the field too.

And glances over to the 49ers sideline.

[commentator 2] I like the challenge.

[Terrell] Obviously, the world didn't know why I did it.

The Cowboys took offense to it.

So I scored a second time.

This time, it was intentional.

[commentator 1] He's going to the star. He's going to the star.

[commentator 2] He's gonna do it again.

[commentator 1] Oh, and somebody's coming over.

- [commentator 2] Look at this. - [commentator 1] Oh! No way!

George Teague comes over and hits Terrell Owens...

[commentator] I don't blame Teague for doing that.

[Terrell] The week after that,

it was all over the news.

Why did he do it? Was it really to worship?

Was it to pray? I don't think so.

Terrell wants to be recognized in NFL, and now he got it.

He was putting on a show.

Somehow, I just don't see God looking down at Terrell and going...

[clicks tongue] "Thanks for that one, Terrell, that was great.

Appreciate you doing that." I mean, he did it for himself.

[George] It was totally misrepresented

to what he was doing.

Prior to the game, it was a group of us in the sideline,

and something was said.

"Terrell, you see that hole in the roof?

Run to that star on that hole in the roof, and give praise to God."

[producer] Who had that conversation with him?

It was a group of us on the sideline.

And I'm not gonna mention the person who said it.

Terrell didn't say anything. He took the bullet on his own.

[commentator] Now Steve Mariucci lecturing Terrell Owens.

[George] He protected a lot of people.

Owens was fined and suspended by the 49ers for this week's game.

Mariucci just felt like it was a situation where he had to...

patrol the situation,

like, "That's not how we do things here."

And he felt like disciplinary actions were necessary.

[whistle blows]

I got fined by the league,

but the coach suspended me.

[Jemele] Typically, they sort of leave the discipline

for the NFL to decide.

When you come in,

and you decide to do something even more severe than the NFL,

you're essentially declaring war on your own player.

[Terrell] So I went home,

he tried to call me back to the Bay Area.

And they wanted to kind of organize us going together to a hockey game,

so the media could show that like, "Oh, we're still cool."

But I wasn't even having that.

There was no way I was gonna come back just to do something--

to pull some PR stunt.

[Jeff] That really put that relationship between T.O. and between Mooch

into a fractured situation.

It became T.O. against the world.

Now, the news media has since called him a moron, an idiot, and a jerk.

[Terrell] I remember Jerry, he said, "You know, at some point,

you gotta learn to play the game." And I'm like, "Play the game?

That's almost like telling me to learn how to lie."

I wasn't comfortable with that because I wasn't raised that way.

That's not how Alice Black raised me.

I mean, it's not like I robbed a bank, it's not like I'm a criminal.

Do you think you deserved to be suspended?

No.

[man] He crosses that line in terms of being an individual

and getting separate from the team.

[Terrell] The media started to look at these things,

like I'm a distraction, you know, I'm not a good teammate.

This is what I want. I want the ball in the end zone. I want it.

[host] What are you gonna do when you score a touchdown again?

I got something creative coming up.

I know everybody's looking forward to me to score and see what I'm gonna do.

But I'm gonna have fun with this situation.

Terrell, have fun with the situation, given the media and public reaction?

How are you gonna have fun with this?

[Howie] There is something bigger going on

in the 49er organization than this incident.

I'm my own person. I bring my own physicalness,

my own emotion to the game.

And I can't let him, you know, take away from my game.

I just run the play. They not gonna listen to me.

I've been suggesting stuff for three years.

[Jeff] This energy and negativity transpired through that season,

and now we come into a situation where a lot of things have happened.

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd cheering]

[Jeff] Our last year together, we're under a new coach,

things don't go as well on the field.

We were playing in Minnesota.

[commentator] All right, George, dropped.

Blocked right side endzone, caught, touchdown.

[Jeff] Randy Moss was killing our defense.

Whatever their quarterback threw up, Randy Moss got it.

We were not having that same success on offense.

[commentator] Garcia back to pass, fires to the left,

picked off by Corey Davis.

Garcia threw it right to Davis, and he's in business.

[Jeff] I struggled.

The frustration, the fire, the anger was burning in T.O.

[Terrell] Oh, my God, Jeff. I was open.

[Jeff] There were a couple moments on the sideline

where T.O. got on our defensive backfield coach.

He got on our offensive coordinator.

[commentator] You know, it just becomes a very uncomfortable situation

for everybody involved.

[Jeff] He saw the other top receiver in the National Football League

having a field day, and he's not matching.

[Terrell] I worked too hard to put myself in the position

to do what Jerry had done throughout his career

to help the San Francisco 49ers win a championship,

because I knew that those were the shoes that they were looking for me to fill.

[Terrell] Everybody wants to look at me and say I'm selfish because I'm yelling.

Everybody yells. It just so happens it's me.

I just wanna win, that's all I ever wanted to do.

I always wanna be part of a championship.

I don't want nobody feel sorry for me, sympathetic for me.

I'm gonna speak my mind.

Sometimes the truth hurts, a lot of people don't like the truth.

I'mma tell the truth. I'mma say what's on my heart.

[George] He always said, "I'm gonna tell the truth."

And it's hard sometimes to take the truth, but he's gonna say it.

[reporter] Do you feel Jeff is throwing the ball

- as well as he has in the past? - I don't know. What do you think?

What do you think? Answer your own question.

Keep trying to get to the ball, baby.

[Terrell] Y'all ain't trying. You ain't trying hard enough.

[in interview] In San Francisco,

I got frustrated because I didn't get the ball enough.

Give me the fucking ball.

Fuck!

[in interview] Being the primary receiver...

[on field] Forget me!

I felt like I should've been targeted more.

[screams]

[Young] The relationship between a quarterback and wide receiver,

it's a sacred ground.

Strangely, I felt like I let him down because I know Terrell, and I know Jeff.

So...

That don't make no sense.

[Young] I think I have to be vulnerable enough to say

that I should've been a part of the solution there rather than not.

[Terrell] No, I don't know what else I gotta do, man.

[man] Yeah.

[Jeff] Ownership is looking at the team differently.

He basically let the media know that if there's a change, I'm good with it.

Terry Donahue, the general manager told me

that he believed Terrell Owens had become more trouble than he was worth.

[dramatic music playing]

[Jeff] They're just trying to clean house.

So they released T.O.

[commentator] Welcome to beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii,

where it's always a sunny 82 degrees

for the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl game at Aloha Stadium.

[Terrell] I made the Pro Bowl with the Niners.

So I got to play with some of the guys that made the Pro Bowl from the Eagles.

And Donovan was the quarterback.

[Andy] Terrell and Donovan had this connection.

[Terrell] Hey, big clash make big plays, baby.

- That's what I'm talking about. - Five.

[Andy] And so I go, "Man, if they were ever together...

that thing would be dynamite."

[reporter] We see you and Terrell Owens hanging out on the sidelines.

Any chance to recruit him?

[Donovan] I love the guys that we have, very comfortable with the guys.

It would become-- I mean, it would be a good thing for us

if we decide to pick up Terrell Owens.

[reporter] But have you spoken to Andy about Terrell?

- [Donovan] No comment. - [reporter] That means yes, he has.

[Donovan] No, man.

[Isaiah] It wasn't until I saw those guys at the Pro Bowl

that I was like, "Yeah. Yeah. Why not T.O., man?"

We should get T.O. T.O. is gonna be a free agent.

Yeah, we gotta get T.O. Yeah, that's what we need to do.

[reporter] Terrell Owen's private plane landed in Philadelphia.

Four-time Pro Bowler reached a settlement today

that officially made him an Eagle.

Owens now gives Eagles' quarterback Donovan McNabb

a legitimate deep threat.

I just wanna win. I feel like I'm in a winning organization here.

So I just wanna come in and just try to add to the puzzle.

Based on what they already had,

I know that I have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl with this team.

Andy Reid was the head coach.

- Like Terrell said about... - [Terrell] Terrell.

- That's what I meant, Terrell. - [laughter]

All right, we'll get this straight right now, it's T.O.

- [Terrell] They had a stellar defense. - [commentator] They've got them.

What a goal line slam, ladies and gentlemen.

[Terrell] Offensively, they had Donovan, strong arm quarterback.

[Isaiah] We had that sort of family culture and atmosphere

because we had gone through tough times together.

[commentator] For the third year in a row,

the Eagles reaching the conference championship game

and going no further.

[Jemele] It seemed like the Philadelphia culture

would fit T.O. a lot better.

A lot of people saw it as T.O.'s the missing piece.

He is what they need to finally get over the hump

and win the Super Bowl.

[Isaiah] At training camp, it was just crowds of crowds of people.

Cameras from everywhere.

They did not come for McNabb, they didn't come for the Eagles,

they did not come for anybody else but Terrell Owens.

[kid] T.O.! T.O.!

We have never seen this before.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] At wide receiver, from Tennessee-Chattanooga,

four-time Pro Bowler, welcome to Philadelphia,

number 81,

Terrell Owens!

[Terrell] From the first pre-season game,

that pretty much let everybody know what type of season it was gonna be.

[commentator 1] Well, I wouldn't be surprised to see

the first play if they don't try to get the football to Terrell Owens.

And looks his way.

- [commentator 2] Oh. - [commentator 1] Fires it his way.

- They're coming. - [crowd cheering]

[commentator 1] And on the first play at Philadelphia,

in an Eagle uniform, Terrell Owens takes it 81 yards

right on the jersey number.

[Freddie] When that happened, the crowd went wild.

And I'm just like, "Dang. Man, he got it."

[hip hop music playing]

That's why I wanted to get out of San Fran.

Huh? Talk to me now!

[commentator] Touchdown. Terrell Owens.

[crowd cheering]

[Terrell] Hey, that's why I'm here. That's why I wanna be here.

[man] That's why I got you here.

[commentator 1] The Eagles are doing something

that no Eagles team has ever done in the history of this franchise,

win seven in a row at the start of a season.

[commentator 2] McNabb, he fires, he completes it to Terrell Owens,

breaks a tackle at the five!

[commentator 1] He's in for the touchdown.

Hey, you bad.

- [Donovan] You throw, motherfucker. - You bad.

[Freddie] Terrell was killing it.

You know, this is not his first rodeo. He won players over.

[commentator] An all-time Eagles record for a season is 14.

I'm in a league of my own, man. They ain't ready for me.

[Isaiah] Philadelphia fans are different.

When they wanna embrace you, and they love you,

there's no greater feeling.

[crowd chanting] T.O.! T.O.! T.O.!

[Isaiah] He had the boisterous, braggadocios personality

that goes along with us here in Philadelphia, and it fits right in.

They just gravitated to him.

The first season, I mean, it was going according to plan until December.

[commentator 1] Nobody has ever swept the NFC East

during the course of the regular season.

The Eagles had the chance to do that today.

[commentator 2] In their first meeting back on November 15th,

the Philadelphia Eagles scored the most points ever

for a visiting team at Texas Stadium.

And here is McNabb drilling it, and it's caught by Terrell Owens.

His second catch of the day, and this one for a substantial yardage.

[Terrell] If anybody has broken a bone,

and you can hear, and you can feel it through your body,

when I got dragged down from behind, I heard a pop.

[commentator] The way he brings him down right there,

it's his right ankle. It's that-- he's grabbing at his knee.

[Terrell] I said, "Get me up. I'm not going off on no cart."

[commentator] He is limping badly as he comes to the bench.

Terrell Owens is one of the three players this team can least afford to lose.

[commentator] And McNabb's reaction on the sideline.

[Terrell] In my mind, I'm like...

[sighs] I'm like, "This can't be happening."

[somber music playing]

[Terrell] The next day is when I got an MRI,

and that's when they found out that I had a broken fibula.

I had torn all the ligaments in my ankle.

And then, when I went into surgery,

that's when they found out that I tore my deltoid.

Leading up to the Super Bowl, it was like six and a half, seven weeks,

and for a break to actually heal is around that time.

Went and had the surgery,

I did a radio interview on the way back in the limo.

They asked me, "What was the likelihood of me making it back to the Super Bowl?"

I said, "If they make it to the Super Bowl,"

I said, "I'm gonna play."

[Terrell] And honestly, I didn't wanna disappoint.

[Terrell] Immediately, the next day, after surgery,

we started an aggressive rehab program.

[Freddie] He had a whole hospital in his mansion.

And I was like, "Man, he really-- he really wants to get back."

[Terrell] The first few days, maybe a week or so,

probably the worst pain I've ever felt.

[dramatic music playing]

[Terrell] It was excruciating.

And then, it started to slowly get better.

[Terrell] From the training table, to the HydroWorx pool,

to then walking, you know, without the water.

[commentator] Well, everybody was questioning them,

what are they gonna do without Terrell Owens?

[commentator] Here they go back to their fourth consecutive NFC Championship game.

[Freddie] We gelled together stronger because we wanted to do it for him.

[Terrell] At this time, I think we were four weeks,

and I made tremendous progress.

[commentator] Let freedom ring, Philadelphia.

The Eagles are going to the Super Bowl.

T.O., you can't win it unless you in it, baby.

[Terrell] In one of those days, I shocked the whole team.

I started to run.

And run.

The week of the Super Bowl was my first time practicing,

so all eyes are on me.

I'm going through practice, running around,

and they saw a noticeable limp.

And then, Thursday, I was better,

and then, Friday is when they do the inactives.

Dr. Mark, it was like he was in disbelief.

He wasn't believing what he saw.

He just said, "It's remarkable."

He's like, "I can't medically clear you."

I know I mentioned my grandmama a lot.

She was a greedy lady, we didn't back down from much,

and that's kind of who I was.

[dramatic music playing]

[reporter] How does the ankle feel, and how did you practice yesterday?

I felt great, I think I'm in a position to prove a lot of people wrong

and a lot of people are really doubting me.

And the sky is the limit for me. There are no limitations.

And so, there's a form I had to sign to release the Philadelphia Eagles

for any liability because the risk of me going out there and playing.

Basically, I risked my career...

to play.

[Isaiah] I just remember thinking like, "Man, this means a lot to this dude."

Basically signed away any culpability or responsibility

that he could be protected by the Eagles with

to go out here and play in this game Sunday.

[Terrell] Dr. Myerson said,

"There's a chance that you may break the screws off in your ankle."

But I came now to help the team win, and I just knew the job wasn't done.

[tense music playing]

Everybody ain't ready for the big game, but Terrell, he has that dog.

[Terrell] I had a lot of belief in myself

that everything that I had done up to this point

would enable me to get back on the field and do the unthinkable.

- [man] Good to see you back. - [Terrell] No doubt, no doubt.

Enjoy this game. It's gonna be something special.

[commentator] Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Jacksonville, Florida,

Super Bowl XXXIX, about to begin.

And the injury that everyone wondered about

for weeks, and weeks, and weeks involved Terrell Owens.

And he is dressed, and he is ready to go.

[Terrell] It was cameras and just lights everywhere

[imitates camera shutter clicking] So I'm like, "Man, this is crazy,

to have a chance to play in the Super Bowl."

I wasn't gonna miss that moment.

- Donovan needs you. - Watcha say? Donovan needs you, right?

Let's go. Let's go do it, T.O.

[Terrell] I didn't think about getting hurt when I was on the field.

I just left it all up into God's hands. I figured I had gotten to this point,

He had brought me to it. He's gonna bring me through it.

[dramatic music playing]

[crowd cheering]

[Terrell] When I caught that ball, I knew... I couldn't be stopped.

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] Imagine what he'd be doing if he were healthy.

[Freddie] The fact that he came out and he excelled like he did

without playing for four to six weeks.

And I'm on half a leg, and they can't stop me.

- [man] They can't stop you! - I got God with me!

It's unheard of.

That's what greatness looks like. It's different than everybody else.

Let me beat 21 up.

- Anybody one on one. - [man] What did he say?

[Terrell] Let me get him.

[commentator] Terrell Owens caught the pass.

Did a pirouette and took off for 37 yards.

[Larry] For a guy to go out on a broken leg

and do the things that he did, that shows you the kind of player he was,

the kind of person he was, the kind of teammate he was.

[Terrell] I remember one play.

I don't know how in hell I caught the ball.

I just remember just sticking my hands out,

and the fucking ball just landed in my hand.

I'm like, "Yo, this is crazy."

[crowd cheering]

[Terrell] But as the game went forward, we were behind and...

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] The Eagles' valiant effort falls short.

There will be no parade.

[Terrell] We lost 21-24.

Put my heart and soul into playing for Philly

and trying to get to the Super Bowl,

and I did my damnedest to do my part to help win.

[crowd cheering]

[woman] Just talk a little about Terrell Owens,

a lot of talk about him during the week.

He really came through for you in a lot of key situations.

Can you just sort of assess his play today?

Well, he did a heck of a job.

There're a lot of guys that played very well,

and T.O. is one of them, and we just came up a little short.

[tense music playing]

[Isaiah] It's still probably one of the most incredible athletic feats

I've witnessed, watching him play and do what he did.

I still think he should have been the MVP of the Super Bowl.

He was the best player on the field that day.

Even though we didn't win, he was the best player on the field.

With one leg.

[Terrell] Everybody has their thoughts about why we lost the Super Bowl.

I have my thoughts.

But they say you lose as a team, and you win as a team,

and I don't sit here as a Super Bowl champion today.

But my play speaks for itself.

[Marilyn] And we got all of his memories here.

When he was playing with the Eagles.

He at the Super Bowl.

We attended in 2005.

He didn't get a ring, but for him to play the way he did,

it was a spectacular game.

[Monique] After he got traded to Philadelphia and became T.O.,

this celebrity player,

that's when his time with Terique just started dwindling.

[Kim] He wasn't as hands on as I'm sure he wished he could have been.

You know, NFL's not for long, so you're trying to really secure your future

for your children and your family.

[Monique] Terique knew his dad played football,

but I don't think he knew how good he was.

It wasn't until he got in middle school,

that's when he started learning more about his dad,

and how big of a football player he actually was.

[Terique] Growing up, I wasn't--

I wasn't around my pops honestly that much.

Not having the father around and kind of having to...

do a lot of things on your own.

It was kind of just the norm for me.

Going throughout high school

and like carry a little chip on my shoulder about it,

I felt some type of way about him not being around obviously.

I wanted to see him more.

Shit, I'mma go over here by the-- I always check on Dad...

While I'm here, so I'mma go over there and see if...

see if he's sitting on the porch or something.

All right.

[Terrell] He usually sittin' over there.

[producer] Do you think that like, the fact that your dad,

he didn't know who his dad was,

- but he lived across the street. - [Terique] Right.

Like that's a little crazy to me. Um...

[dramatic music playing]

[Terrell] My dad lived right across the street.

And he's still in the same house.

[Terrell] There you go.

- There you go. - [LC] What's up, man?

[Terrell] All he does now is sit on the front porch,

so I either see him or he sees me.

And I always stop by, just to say, "What's up?"

How you feeling today?

- Oh, yeah. - I know it's kind of like, it's impromptu.

But yeah, I appreciate you guys letting us come over here.

- All right, no problem. - Yeah.

- You should come visit me anytime. - Yeah.

- [Victor] Anytime. - [chuckles] Anytime.

If you go on by, I wave at 'em.

- [laughter] - Yeah, yup.

[Terrell] I had a dad, but he wasn't really present.

And he lived right across the street from me.

For me, I just-- you know, there's really no in-depth explanation

about what I thought because I wasn't old enough or didn't have...

the cognitive skills to understand what was going on or what transpired

and why he lived over there, and why my mom was elsewhere,

and he had a wife, and he had four kids already.

I didn't have the brainpower

to really truly dissect and understand all of that at that time.

[LC] You know, it just--

Things, what we did back in my day.

- Right, right. - You know what I'm saying.

- [Victor] Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah. Mm-hmm.

What's happened, it happened.

[Victor] Yeah.

There ain't nothing we can do about it.

- Yeah. - You understand.

- [Victor] Yeah. - [woman] Mm-hmm.

That's it, but just...

- Deal with it. - Yeah.

You're sure right about that.

Ain't no shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Right.

[Monique] Terrell, when it came to his relationship with Terique,

I just looked at it like he just doesn't know.

Because he didn't have that.

You know, he didn't really have that growing up,

so I think that impacted a lot of his relationships in life

with not just Terique, but just even personal relationships.

[reporter] Will Terrell Owens be in Eagles' training camp?

Owens showed up in army fatigues,

perhaps giving a visual to his militant feelings

towards Philly's upper management since he doesn't have a new deal.

[Terrell] Going into the next season,

I had a seven-year deal, but it was back loaded.

And so, we wanted to bring some of that money

to the forefront where it was more guaranteed.

I was making considerably less

than other top receivers that I was out-performing.

I just wanted to get market value.

[Rich] The NFC champs who cornered the market on intrigue Friday,

what with Terrell Owens and Brian Westbrook for contract reasons.

Donovan came out to support Brian Westbrook getting the contract.

And I think that's what drove that wedge between those guys

because in T.O.'s mind, he sees loyalty one way.

[whistle blowing]

Donovan did not like the fact that Terrell Owens got more love than him.

- [man] Sign what? - [woman] Pull that out.

- [boy 1] T.O.! - [boy 2] T.O.!

[David] Please welcome, Terrell "T.O." Owens.

[woman] Joe Banner has made it perfectly clear,

Terrell Owens has two options.

Play under the current contract, or don't play under the current contract.

Next thing you know, everything blows up.

And Andy Reid sends T.O. home from training camp.

[helicopter humming]

[Howard] Don't you wanna say anything on camera, T.O.?

Andy Reid saying one thing. We just wanna hear what you have to say.

The altercation that you had with Andy,

can you just fill me in on what happened from your statement?

I mean, I'm not gonna get into the altercation

because if the truth needs to be told, then that's what I'll do.

It wasn't a shouting match, but it was--

It was an aggressive-- just disagreement.

If he wants to be a man about it and have me go on the air

and ready to tell the people what happened, then I can.

But it was a difference of opinion.

It's a situation between me and management. That's about it.

[Howard] Has there been any friction with you and Andy? No?

T.O., thank you very much for your time.

[Kim] I'm on the phone with him, and I'm watching him on television.

And Terrell says, "I'm going outside."

I said, "You're just gonna stay in the house."

No, Terrell had other plans.

Yeah, thank you.

[Jemele] This has gone from zero to 180 real fast.

I'm here. I came in the camp. Nobody thought I was gonna be in camp.

You guys still want a story. What next?

[Jemele] I mean, he's sitting there doing these sit-ups

like surrounded by cameras.

Like what is happening right now?

[man] What does this make you feel about your contract situation?

I don't know. No comment.

[Kim] And I'm saying, "No, no comment. Say nothing."

No comment.

And he's saying, "No comment. No comment."

Two sides to every story.

- And what's your side, T.O.? - No comment.

[Skip] It was funny, and it was inspired,

and I know for a fact the Eagles despised it.

[man] What is your relationship with Donovan right now?

- Whoo! [grunts] - We'd love to hear about that.

- [man] T.O., what would make you happy? - No comment.

- [man] Will it ever be the same? - Hey, I'll be right back.

- [upbeat music playing] - [Al] Downtown Atlanta,

on a warm Southern evening, and more than 71,000

have made their way to the Georgia Dome.

Coming into the game, this one had a ton of stories.

You start, of course, with McNabb and Owens.

[Skip] Felt like about 50% of the players

loved Terrell Owens and believed in him and stood by him.

[crowd cheering]

[Al] Short drop. Quick slant.

And the first catch of the season for Terrell Owens.

[Skip] And about 50% of the players just thought he was Team Obliterator, T.O.

[Michele] Donovan McNabb said last night, "This can't go on forever, it can't last."

[Madden] Yeah. McNabb was saying last night, "I hate soap operas."

He said, "My mother watches them. I would never watch them.

And lo and behold, here I am in one."

[Jemele] T.O., because of his outspokenness,

his history, easy person to blame. Easy person to make into the villain.

And then, T.O. basically tells us that like, "Hey, y'all looking at me.

I ain't the one you need to be looking at.

Perhaps you should be looking at the quarterback."

[Skip] Then Terrell Owens went public with...

"I wasn't the one who got tired in the Super Bowl, Donovan McNabb."

And also indicated that Donovan actually threw up

between plays in the huddle.

[Jemele] There can be a lot of other types of frictions that take place in the team.

The one that cannot happen is the one that's directed at the quarterback.

It's a guaranteed zero percent survival rate.

[Graham] Your friend, Michael Irvin,

said that if Brett Favre was the starting quarterback

for the Philadelphia Eagles, they'd be undefeated right now.

I mean, that's a good assessment. I would agree with that.

[Donovan] One guy doesn't make a team. Break a team maybe.

[Graham] You just recently scored your 100th career passing touchdown reception,

puts you in remarkably elite company.

How surprised were you

when the Eagles just made no public acknowledgment of it?

It was an embarrassment. Just show the lack of class that they had.

The next day, it's all over the media.

So I needed to make a public apology.

I'll make this short and sweet.

I'mma read a statement regarding last night's interview with Graham Bensinger.

"I've had an opportunity to talk with the Eagles organization,

and I have learned that the team does not recognize individual achievements.

It had been brought to my attention

that I have offended the organization and my teammates.

Therefore, I would like to apologize for any derogatory comments toward them.

Thank you.

[in interview] I've always said that I wish I could go back

and do a few things differently.

That's definitely one because I don't think the organization deserved that,

and I just think, for me, I was just in my feelings about it,

and obviously, they didn't-- they didn't warrant that--

it didn't warrant that.

At the time, Andy Reid also wanted me to make a public apology

personally to Donovan, and I'm like, "Why?"

I apologized to the organization, and I apologized to my teammates.

He's included in there.

[clear throats]

Terrell Owens has been suspended by the team

for four games for conduct detrimental to the team.

And he'll not be returning to play for the team

even after the conclusion of that suspension.

We gave Terrell every opportunity to avoid this outcome.

I felt like I was in a no-win situation regardless.

- [indistinct chatter] - Back it up.

[Terrell] Felt like I was still like the black sheep of the family.

I had only been there for like a year.

[indistinct chatter]

[Terrell] So there wasn't really anything for me to stand on,

for me to, obviously, state my case for being there any longer.

- [man] T.O. Bye, T.O. - [cheering]

- Bye, T.O. - [Isaiah] He was the missing piece.

He took everybody's game on the offense to a higher level,

and it was unfortunate what happened to a point

where that became more prevalent

than his brilliance as a player.

That's really the unfortunate part and sad part about the greatness of T.O.

[crowd chanting] T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks!

[man] Down with T.O.!

[Jemele] There was never a question of his ability and talent.

[man] Goodbye, T.O.

[Jemele] Those journalists were thinking that he had reached sort of that point

where it's like any team that takes a chance and says,

"Hey, we want T.O.," this is a mistake.

And then, Dallas enters the picture.

[Jerry Jones] We're here to announce that the Dallas Cowboys and Terrell Owens

have reached a three-year agreement for him to be our wide receiver.

Right now to the fans, all I can say is I'm looking forward

to the upcoming season and get your popcorn ready.

- [Jerry Jones laughing] - [laughter]

'Cause it's going to be a show.

[Jerry Jones] When someone has the goods,

and they have the ability to help your team out,

- all can be forgiven. - [crowd cheering]

[commentator 1] Where's he going? Right to the Dallas Cowboys logo.

[commentator 2 laughs]

[Isaiah] His return to Dallas

after he had stood on the star and everything

when he was out in San Francisco.

[commentator] He's going to the star.

[Rich] The man who desecrated the star in many people's minds

is now wearing it on the side of his helmet.

[Isaiah] After everything that had happened in Philadelphia,

for T.O., it was the opportunity to really start over.

[Terrell] I know there are some life-learned experiences

that I experienced last year both personally and professionally,

and you know, I'mma put those things behind me

and be a better teammate, a better person,

a better man in life,

so I'm just looking forward and you know, to this opportunity.

I couldn't be more excited.

Unfortunately, as athletes sometimes,

you get tagged with this stuff, and it never leaves you.

[man] Where is Parcells today, and why is he not here?

Basically Bill expressed his players that he's interested in,

evaluates players.

We sit down, talk about them, go through the process.

If there is a tie, I break it.

- If there is a-- - [laughter]

But that's what we do.

And that's the deal.

There's no question that Terrell was a great receiver.

There was a question, though, from the vantage point

of the team or the coach,

as to how he fit in a winning situation.

Jerry clearly said, "I don't care what you're saying, Bill.

I'm gonna sign him because we're all about box office."

And this man is box office at the highest level.

[crowd chanting] T.O.! T.O.! T.O.! T.O.!

[man] T.O.! Hold up! T.O.!

[crowd chanting]

[Terrell] Bill Parcells being the head coach

wasn't the best relationship, but I respected him.

[Bill] Run him hard this morning.

[Terrell] Even though he disrespected me and wouldn't call me by my name,

called me the player.

[Bill] As I told you the other day,

trying to integrate this player into the system.

Right now, we can't really proceed exactly the way we would like to proceed.

Bill is just basically saying,

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us."

[Rich] There is a report right now that Terrell Owens

is out for the pre-season with his hamstring.

It's getting there, not a hundred percent, but close.

[reporter] How close would you say? If you had to put a percentage?

- [Terrell] Eighty-one percent. - [laughter]

[Bill] You know, I'm gonna start calling you one of those vacation cities.

Like Cancun or something.

Every time we go to camp, he's on vacation.

[Terrell] Any question about my toughness should've been

gone out the window with the way I rehab and got back to the Super Bowl.

And I think, the most important thing is

for me to be regular-- ready for the regular season.

[Bill] If a player is telling you that he has something bothering him,

that you have to give the player the benefit of the doubt.

In the meantime,

I'm getting a sense that most of the media

is just waiting for something to be controversial in that regard.

Bingo! We are looking for controversy. There's no question.

[Drew on phone] It upsets me. He's a former 49ers,

he's a former Eagle, he's a former bad boy.

You know, there's certain people that you knew

would never ever be in a Cowboy uniform.

I think, if he blows this opportunity with the Dallas Cowboys,

I don't know how many other teams are gonna give T.O. another $10 million.

- This might be his last chance. - [fireworks exploding]

[commentator] A big win, but a bigger loss for the Cowboys, Sunday night.

T.O. hurt, how long will he be out?

And how much this hurts Dallas.

[Terrell] The ball just-- literally just grazed.

Just out of my reach and it tipped my-- grazed my finger.

[Tom] You know, it starts out with riding the bike with a helmet on.

It's 19 practices missed.

Now, it's two to four weeks. It's always something.

[Terrell] The trainer, he's like, "You tore your flexor tendon."

If I did the surgery, my season is over.

So, I elected to do just-- kind of just tape it and deal with it.

I did take a little-- some pain pills, like Toradol or whatever,

and that was it.

[sirens wailing]

[woman] Hi, hi. I need the ambulance, please, immediately.

- [operator] What's wrong? - [woman] I think he took too many pills.

[producer] So after this injury, there's media reports

that the painkillers that you were on for your hand injury,

that you had an overdose of painkillers.

Terrell Owens, who may have overdosed on prescription drugs...

[producer] I would like to talk about what happened.

[Terrell] Um, that-- I mean, like I said,

some reports that I was in-- some reports are out there that I was--

I committed suicide. I was trying to commit suicide.

That is the attempted suicide by Dallas Cowboys' receiver Terrell Owens.

Obviously, there was pain killers being taken

with obviously the injuries, the season, things that were going on.

Having to obviously take medication and not really taking them properly

has probably what prompted that situation.

[producer] So, it was more just like a-- not watching your dose.

- Right. - [producer] An accident.

- [Terrell] Right. Right. - [producer] Not being...

Right. It wasn't an intentional situation of me

taking more pills than I should have.

- You didn't try to take your own life. - [Terrell] No.

- Not at all? - Man, I love me.

Anybody that know me, I love myself.

So, why would I wanna take myself away from the world?

There have been days, dark days where I haven't, you know...

wanted to be on this earth.

But that was one-- that wasn't one of those moments

where I feel like I wanted to check out.

Terrell's gonna make a few brief opening remarks.

This was definitely an unfortunate situation.

And you know, I'm just trying to be here

to clarify any of the rumors that's out there

as far as me having a suicide attempt.

[cameras clicking]

We all have done bad things or got skeletons in our closet.

But for the most part, I have a lot to be proud of.

[crowd chanting] T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks!

This is my tribute to the man who personally ruined our season last year.

The Dallas Cowboys can have T.O.

because he's filled with nothing but baggage.

OD, OD, OD, OD...

[crowd chanting] OD, OD...

OD, OD, OD, OD.

OD, OD.

T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks!

[commentator] Terrell Owens, who was being ridden the entire pre-game

by this crowd, the perfect storm is here.

[crowd chanting] T.O. sucks! T.O. sucks!

[commentator] So far, Terrell Owens has 104 career touchdowns,

this season, he has one.

Bledsoe, Owens, gets behind the defense and it's picked off.

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] He got by Sheppard who was wide open.

But whatever it was, it threw Bledsoe off.

[commentator] Owens drops it.

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] 38-24, Philadelphia wins it.

They shut down Owens, three catches, 45 yards.

[man] Drew Bledsoe benched.

Now, you turn the keys over to Tony Romo, who doesn't have really any experience.

- You ready? - [Romo] Yeah, I'm ready.

- Okay. - Up to that point, I'd never really played

a meaningful snap in the NFL.

[Terrell] He goes from holding a clipboard to now the starting quarterback

of the Dallas Cowboys, America's team.

Tony and I, it's kinda like a match made in heaven.

It was instant chemistry.

We started to make magic.

[commentator] What a throw and what a catch by Owens.

Owens crosses the goal line with a pass.

Touchdown.

[Terrell] It just felt like backyard football.

That was my friend,

he knew to get the ball to me and make things happen.

[Romo] T.O. was actually great.

He's not wrong when he's like, "Well, if I catch more passes,

we'd probably win more often."

- [Terrell] All day. - [Romo] Okay.

[Terrell] Already know.

[commentator 1] Romo over the middle.

Owens inside the 20, the 10, and another T.O. TD.

[commentator 2] And that relationship of Romo and Terrell Owens

continues to flourish.

[commentator] Owens touchdown.

Oh, he flaps his wings like a big eagle bird in the end zone.

[Terrell] I just wanna thank everybody, man.

You know, this is why I play, and it was just big for us

to just play as a unit. It's gonna take games like this, man,

to take all of us together to make it happen.

So this is the one step to where we're gotta be, man.

[commentator 1] Terrell Owens coming off a huge week in Philly.

He was named the team captain.

[commentator 2] There have been very few offenses in the history of the game

that had been better than what the Dallas Cowboys have been.

[Romo] He made it easy.

He would make me feel it's okay. And I appreciated that.

- Stay on me. - I will.

- Stay on me. - You know I'd do that.

- I wanna be the best out there. - [Ray] I know you are.

When Terrell cares about you, and he know you care about him,

he gonna fight for you.

Whoo!

You get your popcorn ready.

[commentator] Terrell Owens now number three all-time

on the touchdown receptions list.

I appreciate y'all tuning in. 'Cause it's the T.O. show right now.

- [man] How about our defense? - [yells]

- [man] How about our owner? - [yells]

[commentator] And the Dallas Cowboys are the champions of the NFC East.

That's all, folks.

[man] We gonna set the tone. I'm out here all day.

Let's go, Owens. One at a time.

If I were you, I'd hang out with me, too.

[commentator] These fans are ready. It is all white at Texas Stadium.

Get your popcorn ready.

[commentator] A season is down to one play.

Sixteen seconds, no timeouts.

Giants leading by 4.

Romo takes the snap. Back to throw. Has time to the end zone.

Intercepted by the Giants.

[man] Tony Romo's pass intercepted at the end zone by R.W. McQuarters.

[reporter] How much do you worry that you've lost some fans now?

And you gotta get them back?

You personally?

Next question. I don't...

[Terrell] You guys can point the finger at him.

And if you do that, it's really unfair.

It's really unfair.

That's my teammate.

[sniffles]

That's my quarterback.

And if you guys do that, man, it's unfair. We lost as a team.

We lost as a team, man.

[Victor] Everybody knows T.O., but everybody doesn't know,

you know, Terrell on a personal level.

They don't know what went on in 105 Emerson.

Terrell happened to be home, it was like the summer of college.

I might have been seven, me being the youngest.

My grandmother would hit us like grown men.

And my brother got mad and said something.

[Terrell] They were young, and kids being kids,

and she hit 'em hard, I'm like,

"Grandmama, you can't be hitting 'em like that.

That's too-- They're kids."

[Victor] And my grandmama didn't say nothing.

And it was just like, that's the things--

[crying] That's the deal I'm proud of my brother for...

standing up for us and stuff like that.

Because it was--

It was rough in there sometimes, but he stood up for us, man.

[Terrell] It just felt bad because I wasn't there all the time.

So I can only imagine how terrified they were when I wasn't there.

When I was their size, I couldn't do anything either.

I didn't have anybody to stand up or say anything, that it was wrong.

That was how we got disciplined.

But as I got older, I just knew it wasn't right.

- [Alice] Who is that? - [Terrell] Right there.

- [Alice] Who? - [Terrell] Yeah. Who it is then?

- [Alice] Who is that? - [Terrell] That's...

- [Alice] What is his name? - [Terrell] That's Victor.

[Alice] Victor? Yeah.

[Terrell] With my grandmama, a lot of it, it could've been alcohol-related.

Oh, yeah.

[Terrell] I remember getting a call from my mama...

- Tell me your name. - [Terrell] You tell me.

Just think a little bit.

[Terrell] She was diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's.

[woman] Did you teach your grandson about dancing?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

We could do the boogie-woogie one day.

Yeah.

From '96 on, she really didn't understand or grasp

the concept of what I had accomplished as a professional athlete.

That's my grandson.

- Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.

- [woman] He good to you. - Yeah, yeah.

It wasn't just the football, he was doing, you know,

standing up for us from grandmama, standing up from other people.

[Terrell] And that's what made me stand up. Even just...

stuff that I dealt with in the media.

That's what-- that's where it all came from.

Because people saw me different, they talked about me different,

they viewed me different.

And I never did anything wrong, I was just honest,

I was true to whatever it was that came my way.

That's my quarterback.

And if you guys do that, man, it's unfair. We lost as a team.

We lost as a team, man.

[Romo] Even to this day, that's one of the hardest losses of my career.

He felt for me, and he saw what I was going through.

- [man 1] Thanks, guys. - [man 2] Thanks, Tony.

Molly'll be bringing Terrell over here. Won't be for a while.

[Romo] He's literally trying to be like-- almost like a parent.

"You don't mess with him, that's my guy. If you mess with him, you mess with me."

And I just think that is rare, you don't see that very often.

So, I have...

You know, T.O. has a special place in my heart because of that, forever.

[commentator 1] What's wrong with the Cowboys?

This team seems to be on a slippery slope right now.

[commentator 2] This has to go down

as the most disappointing Dallas Cowboys team.

[commentator 3] The guys who play well on that team,

they aren't necessarily leaders. Romo, T.O...

[commentator 4] And that was a bad throw.

When you're winning, everyone's okay with everything.

When you're losing, then people wanna start to point fingers.

[Terrell] In 2008, we weren't playing well.

Me being a veteran at this time, it's like my tenth year,

I wanna understand,

"Why are you throwing the ball here when this guy is open?"

And I brought it to the attention, to the offensive coordinator,

who brought it to the head coach.

And I think it rubbed some guys the wrong way.

[Deion] Now, you gotta understand, the media, and I'm part of it,

we've been waiting, everybody's been saying,

"He's going to blow."

When Deion interviewed Terrell, I said, "Oh, boy, here we go."

I mean, I think everybody knows my playmaking ability.

When I get my hands on the ball, things happen.

I can't throw it and catch it.

[Skip] He would make one statement

at the worst time that would blow things apart.

And it seemed that cycle to repeat itself everywhere Terrell went.

You talk about who's catching all the ball,

if I'm not catching, it's been pretty much Jason Witten.

[commentator] T.O., along with other receivers,

they're not so happy with the relationship between Witten and Tony Romo.

A lot of the people on this football team are wondering why

more footballs aren't going in the direction of Terrell Owens.

It's funny because I was like, "Well, I literally have never thrown a pass

in my life 'cause we're friends."

Sometimes there's a time aspect to it. Sometimes there's a coverage aspect to it.

Sometimes there's a bad play call to it.

Sometimes I'm a terrible quarterback, and I had missed you.

And sometimes I didn't see you.

- I couldn't see you on that. - [man] Whoa.

Well, I was a freshman at that time. He was the senior.

Hey, we may go nine. I got him.

[Tony] Yeah.

I got him.

[Ray] When Terrell said, "Well, I can't throw it to myself."

And I knew people were gonna use that and try to say that he's selfish.

He's tearing up the team. He's doing this. He's demanding the ball.

Who doesn't want the ball? All your great players want the ball.

Jerry Rice wants the ball.

Inevitably, he will blame his failings

on his quarterback or his coordinator, or even on his head coach.

It's always their fault.

[Ray] Skip Bayless would say, "Oh, he's destroying the locker room.

He's doing this."

And that never happened when I was there.

So I don't know where those things come from.

[Terrell] Drew gave me a call, my agent at the time,

and said that Jerry was in town for like an owner's meeting,

and he wanted to talk to us.

And he didn't really give me any details.

We met him, and we went into this little restaurant.

And so, I met him, and I got a napkin.

And I drew his line down through it.

And I said, "This is where we are as a team."

And then I said, "Here you are, Terrell."

And I said, "This thing is gonna have to go apart.

It's not gonna work anymore."

And I was kind of confused. And I'm like, "Is he serious?"

And I'm like-- I'm waiting for some laughing.

Like, "Ha, ha, I'm just kidding." But it really wasn't a joke.

I look back on it, and it was just a screwball way of old Jerry to say,

"Terrell, I don't believe I know quite how to say this,

but we're gonna go in different directions."

[sportscaster 1] The Cowboys aren't going to keep Terrell Owens,

then why would anybody?

[sportscaster 2] T.O. has been a cancer wherever he has been.

It's the only reason why he's not in San Francisco or Philadelphia

or Dallas anymore.

I mean, here's a guy who has caught more touchdowns

over the past three years than anybody else in football.

[sighs] How many red flags do you want?

[Terrell] They created this narrative that I was such a problematic,

you know, player, a negative player, a selfish player, arrogant player.

I wasn't that guy. I played with a lot of confidence.

[Romo] From my perspective, he was a great teammate.

[producer] When the news that he was cut, like what--

how did that hit you?

Well, I mean, there's so much to that, I feel like. I've tried to uncover it too,

- even to this day. - [producer] Really?

Just like him probably, where it's like, "How did this go down?"

But I do know the people in charge obviously had discussions about things.

[Terrell] I mean, I wouldn't change it for the world.

I'm just disappointed that I haven't heard

from Tony since I got cut, from the Dallas Cowboys...

- [producer] You never talked to him? - ...Considering-- no.

I just wish that I was older,

more mature, better at throwing the football,

knew the game better when I played with him,

because I feel like that would have thrived

with his passion and love for the game and his ability

because he's rare and special.

[producer] Have you ever told him that directly?

No.

No, I haven't.

Hopefully you guys use that because that's the truth.

I really believe that.

Suddenly, it's like he's too toxic to deal with

because it didn't work in Dallas.

And I think it impacted everything from there on out.

[indistinct chatter]

[Ray] People will fabricate stories. They'll say things that aren't true.

Terrell never got into trouble, never did anything.

And they always try to make him a villain.

[Rich] So just when you think T.O. had worn out his welcome

with the entire National Football League,

the Buffalo Bills gave a 6.5 million reasons to think otherwise.

I'm not sure if everybody is chuckling or if they're frightened.

[crowd cheering]

[commentator] Headed to the end zone, touchdown Terrell Owens.

[interviewer] You'd go back to the Buffalo Bills?

[Terrell] I'm not sure what my future holds at this point.

- [interviewer] Have you slown down? - No.

[Rich] Terrell Owens, quieting all the critics

who said he wouldn't find a job at all in 2010.

He's a Cincinnati Bengal.

[Jemele] In the NFL, there are some sins that never get forgiven.

And T.O. committed the unforgivable sin of not conforming.

[crowd cheering]

[Terrell] I've never been in any off-the-field issues,

no run-ins with the law, no domestic violence, none of that stuff.

T.O. is looking for a job.

[Jemele] There are plenty of examples across the NFL

of players who committed crimes, who've been accused of some heinous stuff,

and they're welcomed back.

[Andrew] Trying to prove to the NFL that he is ready,

and he is able to get back on the football field.

What team wants to take on the T.O. Show?

[producer] So, life in retirement...

- Can I use that word? - Yeah, I guess.

- If you wanna say retirement, yeah. - [producer] Okay, life post-NFL.

[woman] There are no confirmed NFL teams here.

[Terrell] I never officially retired, so I don't say I retired.

I think I've dealt with more pressing issues,

you know, post-football than I did during the course of my career.

[Armen] Tonight, we're going to focus on how one financial advisor

ensnared dozens of NFL players in a risky investment

that saw them lose tens of millions of dollars.

Stars like Terrell Owens got burned.

[Terrell] I found out that a lot of the money

that I had earned had been mismanaged.

[Terrell] I lost tens of millions.

It's tough to think about, talk about, because of...

what I did to earn that.

[dramatic music playing]

[Terrell] I never played the game for legacy.

I never played the game to be in the Hall of Fame.

But it was disappointing when I got nominated

for the Hall of Fame in 2016, and then 2017, and I wasn't inducted.

Forgive me, Terrell, but I would say, "No, he's not my Hall of Fame."

For five years, I have been calling him Team Obliterator.

I've never been a Hall of Fame voter. I can only tell you what I think.

[Terrell] Shit.

[Skip] Because of all the off-the-field incidents, and there were many.

[Terrell] Damn!

[Skip] All the clashes with the quarterbacks.

[Terrell] Oh, my God, Jeff.

[commentator] And Donovan's just trying to get away from him and find some peace.

[Skip] And the clashes with the coaches.

One guy doesn't make a team. Break a team, maybe.

The totality of that would give voters pause.

[man] Goodbye, T.O.!

[commentator] Trouble does seem to find him, no matter what he does.

[Terrell] Me having disagreements with coaches or players,

that has nothing to do with what I did on the football field.

[Romo] The fact that he's not a first-ballot Hall of Famer,

it's just wrong.

Do I think he should have been a first-ballot?

- [producer] Mm-hmm. - Of course.

That should be a no-brainer.

[Jerry Jones] He's one of the great receivers,

one of the most talented receivers in the history of the NFL.

And he should be recognized as that.

[man] It almost puts a black mark on the Hall of Fame voters

who make these decisions because they don't--

and it comes down to it, they don't like you.

He just won't accept that it was his behavior or misbehavior

in splitting those teams apart, why I called him Team Obliterator,

that kept him out of the Hall of Fame for the first two voting sessions.

[Terrell] It got to the point of me being disappointed

to the point of being disrespectful.

And so, when I finally got in, that's why I took the stance that I did.

[crowd chanting] T.O.! T.O.!

Congratulations on being selected into the 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame.

[crowd applause]

[Rich] At the 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame, you could say

that this is one of the greatest classes of all time.

And yet, there's a lot of conversation about who's not here.

Terrell Owens.

[Ray] His choice was to do it at his college.

And I know people try to talk to him about it.

I even tried to, you know, talk to him about it.

You know, you ought to go to Canton, man. And he was adamant about it.

And I was going to honor that.

And then he wanted me to introduce him, and I chose to do so.

But that was his choice.

[Terrell over speakers] To my beautiful mama,

you told me you always knew I would be something special.

And when they ostracized me and tried to keep me from what I rightfully earned,

not once, but twice,

you texted me, said,

"You ain't gotta worry about nothing. You are always a Hall of Famer to me."

I love you. And for that...

[sniffles] This is for you.

[crowd applause]

They say behind every great man is a great woman.

Well, I had two.

My mama and my grandmama.

[cheers and applauding]

[Marilyn] I have this picture when he first went into the league.

And he gave this to my mom, his grandma.

And he says to grandma, "I love you to death.

Without your teachings and discipline, I wouldn't be here.

Love you, your grandson."

[Terique] He had his career.

He had his success, his failures.

You know, he did what he did.

As a father, I think he understands

that he could have-- you know, he could have done more.

[light music playing]

[Kylee] I think his relationship with his father has...

made him want to overcome what he has suffered with that relationship.

And he doesn't want to extend that to us.

[Terrell] To my children,

I love y'all so much.

Terique, Kylee, Dasha,

Atlin, Elle Jai,

your dad hasn't always been perfect,

but it's a privilege and an honor to be your dad.

This is for you.

[crowd applause]

[groans]

[Terique] As I got older, I think he kind of realized

that I felt some type of way about him not being around, and...

[Terrell] Now, he's fast now. I ain't gonna tell no lie.

He's fast, but I'm fast too.

[Terique] We were able to talk about that.

Would you get it... If 81 was available, would you get it?

[Terique] That kind of made our bond a little stronger 'cause,

you know, he saw that.

He saw that in me and he-- you know, he wanted to help me out.

[cheering]

There we go. There we go.

[Kylee] My dad was just very passionate about me playing volleyball.

[Terrell] Nice, nice.

[Kylee] I've always been competitive, so it's just always in me.

But I'm not as intense.

[producer] Now, he's put it into pickleball.

[Terique] Yeah.

[upbeat music playing]

[Terique] Sometimes, those get super heated.

[Terrell] Oh, yeah.

[Terique] And I'll kind of look at him...

"Like, all right, relax."

Come on, T, that's dumb.

Come on.

Some shit don't never change.

Some shit don't never change.

So, I renovated my grandmama's house.

So, it's finally done.

So I invited-- my daughter has never been here before,

in my hometown, Alexander City, Alabama.

[Terrell] And first time it's here seeing

my grandmama's house exactly where I grew up.

[Terrell in video] Action and everything.

[laughs]

So, I redid pretty much every room.

Come on.

You have to give me your first impression of what the house look like.

- Three bedrooms. - [Marilyn] Mm-hmm.

Used to be a closet right here.

[Terrell] Yup, yup. This is the hallway.

- That was her room. - [Marilyn] My sister and I slept in here.

- When they grew up. - When we grew up.

My bed right here. This is the window I used to look out of.

I used to sit here. The kids out in the street,

the streetlights came on.

We would be coming in the house, and everybody else still outside.

[children giggling]

[Terrell] Yeah, I'm hoping that she likes what she sees and...

Yeah, I love it.

[producer] What do you think that your mom would think about...

All of this?

Let's get that...

She would say he knows what to do. She would be happy.

Yeah.

[Terrell] To have this opportunity to have my kids, you know,

really see you know, this is where it started for me.

[soft music playing]

[Terrell] There was a lot that I lacked growing up

without a father figure in the household.

But trying to make efforts to be a-- be the dad to my kids that I didn't have.

Is there a better way to do it? I don't know.

I never had a dad to really show me, but based on what I know

and what I didn't have, this is the best that I know how to do.

This is all I've ever known.

[Marilyn] Everything that he's been through,

without knowing and having the bond with his daddy,

that he's done great,

even though it affected him.

I may not know the extent, but I know it affected him.

[Terrell] There are so many men, and especially athletes,

that are in these situations,

and you have guys that can't cope, and they can't deal,

and that's why a lot of people have taken their lives.

And I'm fortunate that I haven't had to do that.

Ask me have I had thoughts? Yeah. Absolutely.

When I feel like, yeah, it's gotten tough. The walls are closing in.

If I wouldn't be the Hall of Famer that I am,

I would be struggling.

[Terrell] I've never driven back this way in my life.

So really, I can't even be a tour guide

for my own city because grandmama didn't let us to go anywhere.

So I don't know.

- That's all he do is snack. - I just had a Slim Jim, so what?

Man, get out of here with a Slim Jim. That's what you are, a Slim Jim.

We need to slim down, be in pickleball shape.

[laughs]

[Terique] If you want me in pickleball shape...

[soft music playing]

[singer] ♪ Baby, you understand me now ♪

- Everything's buy one, get one. - Oh, man. Yes.

[singer] ♪ But sometimes you see that I'm mad ♪

♪ Don't you know no one alive can always be an angel? ♪

♪ When everything goes wrong you see some bad ♪

♪ But I'm just a soul ♪

♪ Whose intentions are good ♪

♪ Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood ♪

Here we go. Showtime.

[singer] ♪ I know sometimes baby, I'm so carefree ♪

♪ But with a joy that's hard to hide ♪

♪ And then, sometimes, again it seems that all I have is worry ♪

♪ And then you're bound to see my other side ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[singer] ♪ But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ♪

♪ Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood ♪

[credits music playing]