Terrell Owens' beef with Steve Mariucci set the tone for T.O.'s entire career

Will narrating. It's been a while. Welcome back.

The Star Celebration remains one of the funniest moments in NFL history.

Side note about the 1999 season:

That season the 4-12 Niners and 5-11 Falcons played each other on Monday Night Football at the end of the season.

That has to be one of the worst combined records ever by two teams to play each other on Monday Night.

But they couldn’t have predicted Jamal Anderson and Steve Young’s injuries that derailed both teams.

Honestly, on the TO drama scale, this is like a 4/10.

You can tell Will did his T.O. homework with the "Get your popcorn ready" line.

"Forget everything you know about Terrell Owens"

Me: done

"we are gonna talk about Terrell Owens"

Also me: I dont know who that is

Buffalo Bills legend T.O! Love that guy. We gave him the key to the city just for signing with us back in the day😂 those were dark times

I had the honor and privilege to meet T.O. in 2015 while visiting Southern California. He was a very respectful and cool person to talk with. Completely the opposite that the media portrays about him.

Anyway, I asked him about his relationship with Mariucci during his time in San Francisco. He flat out said that Mariucci was running the team like an old school college coach. He didn't know how to manage the egos of the team, and everything fell apart.

Now, Owens admit that he should have handled certain situations more mature. But, as Jerry Rice said, if cross him, he will never forget.

This helps understand his time in Philadelphia, Dallas, Buffalo, and Cincinnati. He needed a strong father figure to keep him in check, and it seemed no one wanted to take that role.

Rewinder: 2006 Orange Bowl 3OTs
Beef History: Lindros vs Flyers Organization
Overlap: Greatest College Football Coach (Saban) and the Greatest NFL Coach (Belichick) coaching in the same division
Beef History: Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas
Beef History: Phil Jackson and Pat Riley
Untitled: Reggie Miller
Untitled: Tracy McGrady
Untitled: Ken Griffey Junior
Untitled: Carl Yastrzemski
Untitled: Ted Williams
Untitled: Jim Kelly
Collapse: Early 90s Bills
Prism: Steph Curry and all those mid major players
Rewinder: The Catch By Willie
Rewinder: Wide Right I, Wide Right II
Rewinder: Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds breaking the respective HR record(s)
Untitled: Don Nelson

He annoyed me with the Niners, like any player you hate playing against, loved him with the Cowboys, really sad when he left. The secret to TO is that smile. He plays with passion, but is himself happy and having fun. That rubs some the wrong way, like certain head coaches.

"I love me some me!!!!" - TO

Great video

We need a beef history of Al Davis and Marcus Allen🤝

TO may have been a bad teammate(although there are plenty of teammates who love him), but between the lines, he never gave less than 100% and he should've been a first ballot hall of famer.

Good to hear Will again
Also secretBase never misses

Those white mid to late 90’s Niners uniforms look cool in my opinion

I would love a beef video on Patrick Roy vs. Mario Tremblay

6:11 SKIUUUUUP!

As a 49ers fan, life just hit a full-circle moment because TO's son Terique worked out at the 49ers' local pro day. How's that for feeling old?

It's true, I do forget TOs time in San Fran compared to the eagles bc of the beef.