T.O. RESPONDS TO CRIS CARTER’S STATED DESIRE TO SHOOT HIM

Last week, ESPN’s Cris Carter touched off a mini-controversy by introducing a new radio shtick focusing on the notion of shooting Terrell Owens before a crowd of credentialed media. The story didn’t really gain traction, possibly because no one really listens to Cris Carter. But T.O. heard him, and here’s what T.O. had to say in response, at YardBarker, via BSO: “This is T.O. and I want to tell you this myself. People ask me what I thought about what Cris Carter said about me a few days ago. All I know is, if I’d been the one who had said that about him, what would everyone have thought?” Um, is there more? Actually, there isn’t. So we’re left here with this odd feeling that Owens ascended to the top of the high dive, was preparing to do a Triple Lindy, and then in the end he just said “screw it” and he climbed back down. Really, why even respond to Carter if you’re not going to raise the stakes? But at least T.O. made his position known at YardBarker, because the comments are worth the price of admission. Here’s our favorite: “do you have your ‘popcorn ready’ to watch the eagles in the playoffs from the couch this year?”