I just heard that Dallas Cowboy receiver, Terrell Owens, attempted suicide last night. I’m not sure if it’s true or not yet but, it sounds like it is. There probably isn’t anyone playing sports today with as bad an image as this guy, and a lot of it is well deserved. But this weekend, I think it was Sunday Night, ESPN aired a profile about the guy that really helped explain some of his antics. I’m not saying it excuses some of the crap he has pulled, but it shed some light on it.

As a kid he was pretty much kept from having a social life, and a lot of interactions with other kids ended with him being made fun of because of how dark his skin color is. You really should find out when they’ll have it on next and TIVO it. There was a lot that I can’t remember right now. But what I do remember thinking was that Owens isn’t a bad guy. He does horribly stupid things. He’s selfish. But he’s super sensitive, and being a great self promoter who is super sensitive is a bad mix. He wants so badly to be loved and accepted but he never learned how to let people accept him, and somewhere along the line Terrell Owens became the super ego TO.

Last year my buddy Bum, did a little arm chair diagnosing and said TO must be bi-polar. I think I even posted something about it at the time. This is the super macho guy that questioned his quarter backs sexual orientation, came back from a horrible injury and played a game for the ages in the Super Bowl who also breaks down and cries anytime someone asks him about his grandmother. He loves the spot light but doesn’t have the public relations savvy of a guy like Shaq.

And last night he made the ultimate cry for attention, luckily he wasn’t successful. Hopefully he’ll hang up the spikes and get some help.