Terrell Owens Apologizes for Role in 'MNF' Skit

[Champ]

By DAN GELSTON, AP Sports Writer

PHILADELPHIA - Terrell Owens apologized Thursday to anyone offended by his role in a steamy segment with actress Nicollette Sheridan for the intro to "Monday Night Football."


"I felt like it was clean, the organization felt like it was a clean skit and I think it just really got taken out of context with a lot of people and I apologize for that," Owens said. "Personally I didn't think it would have offended anyone and, if it did, I apologize."


ABC and the Eagles also apologized this week, with the team saying they wished the segment "hadn't aired."


The opening, which has generated complaints to ABC and the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites), showed Sheridan wearing only a towel and provocatively asking Owens to skip the game for her as the two stood alone in a locker room. She drops the towel and jumps into Owens' arms.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041118/ap_en_tv/fbn_owens_mnf_apology_4

[LisaM]

1. He apologizes for THIS?

But not his antics on the field???? That is messed up.

[Sandpiper]

2. No need to apologize to prudes and racists

I don't think you did anything you should apologize for Terrell.

[dkofos]

3. Yeah I apologize

But I'm still keeping the fucking money they paid me.


:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[bbernardini]

4. Check out the poll on nbc10.com...

"Would There Be An Uproar Over The Monday Night Football Skit If Terrell Owens Were A White Athlete?"

[mark414]

7. or

Would there be an uproar over janet jackson if she was white?

[tishaLA]

5. Oh fuck the NFL and the prudes

if he offended anybody by appearing in the skit, fuck you. Now watch the cheerleaders with their boobs swinging and the Miller Light ads with women wrestling and the Levitra ads and leave TO and the skit alone.

[Bill McBlueState]

6. not really an apology

He didn't really apologize for what he did, he apologized that it got taken out of context.

"I felt like it was clean, the organization felt like it was a clean skit and I think it just really got taken out of context with a lot of people and I apologize for that," Owens said. "Personally I didn't think it would have offended anyone and, if it did, I apologize."

Good for him. It's the NFL, not Barney and Friends.

[pdx_prog]

8. I wish

I had seen it...

[DenverDem]

9. Apologizing for the wrong thing.

He should apologize for his repulsively poor sportsmanship ON THE FIELD.

The open for MNF, not so much.