Terrell Owens overdose...

[Astonishment]

ESPN radio is reporting that TO tried to commit suicide and was rushed to the Hospital to have his stomach pumped. When the police asked him if he tried to harm himself he said yes.

Regardless of your feelings of TO this is a very sad situation. My hopes and prayers are with him.

[MadtownPacker]

I read that he had a bad reaction to meds he was giving for his surgery. Yo gotta link to that suicide stuff? Just seems like owens loves himself to much to do that.

[Astonishment]

Sorry no link, just turn on ESPN radio. Yes the allergic reaction was what was originally reported, but the police have released the accurate report.

[MJZiggy]

He did WHAT? But, but but, WHY??? Hopefully when they're done with his stomach they'll start on his head. Do they have mandatory inpatient for suicide attempts in TX? As much as I didn't want him on our team, I do hope he recovers fine and gets some help.

[Oscar]

I just heard it on Mike and Mike as well. THey say its all over the Dallas news.

[Packnut]

TO

Unfreaknin believable! The man has everything and tries to end it?


WTF

[mmmdk]

The link on ESPN reads: Report: Owens hospitalized after suicide attempt

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2604395

The article tells another story though.

Didn't Hershall Walker try suicide & rumors on Deion Sanders too? Scary, and I hope the best for T.O. though I do not believe it was suicide.

[Rastak]

From ESPN:

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens ingested several pain killers in a suicide attempt, according to a report released by the Dallas police Wednesday, Dallas television station WFAA reported.

According to the report cited by the TV station, when police asked Owens if he tried to hurt himself, he said yes.

Owens was taken to the emergency room Tuesday night. A source close to Owens told ESPN's Ed Werder early Wednesday that Owens was suffering an adverse reaction to painkillers taken for treatment of his fractured hand.

"This is not serious," Owens' publicist Kim Etheridge said in Wednesday's online edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

A report earlier Tuesday stated that Owens would practice with the team Wednesday and possibly play Sunday at Tennessee, but his availability this week and beyond is now uncertain.

Doctors treating the Dallas Cowboys receiver were trying to induce vomiting when he arrived at Baylor Medical Center, according to a television report.


Owens was brought by a fire rescue crew to the hospital, Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT reported, citing sources the television station did not identify. A reporter for the station later said she saw Owens being wheeled down the hall.


Calls from The Associated Press to Owens' agent, his publicist and the Cowboys were not immediately returned Tuesday night. The hospital told the AP that they do not have a patient registered by Owens' name; however, federal privacy laws allow people to block their name from being released.

No teammates or Cowboys officials were seen entering the hospital late Tuesday night.

Owens fractured the fourth metacarpal bone in the Cowboys' victory over the Washington Redskins and underwent surgery on Sept. 18. The next day, a plate was screwed in, protecting the bone so it can heal without further damage.

Cowboys coach Bill Parcells mentioned in a press conference shortly thereafter that pain medication had made Owens ill, apparently making this the second time he has had an adverse reaction. The incident that sent him to the hospital Tuesday night apparently occurred sometime after Owens took medication after catching passes at the Cowboys' facility on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the Cowboys also practiced without tight end Jason Witten, whose wife was having a baby. Wide receiver Terry Glenn practiced, albeit with several stitches in his thumb.


"He was trying to cut some tape off his uniform," Parcells said. "He had his hand down in his pants and he missed. Fortunately he cut his hand."


With the Cowboys having had a bye last weekend, Owens could return without having missed a game. Before Tuesday's late developments, Owens said he would play Oct. 8, when he gets to face his former team, the Eagles, in Philadelphia.

[mmmdk]

Oh I read too fast! From the article:

According to the report cited by the TV station, when police asked Owens if he tried to hurt himself, he said yes.

Still, it's hearsay. More info is needed from a primary source.

[Rastak]

By TODD ARCHER / The Dallas Morning News


Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens swallowed prescription pain medication Tuesday night in an apparent attempt to harm himself, according to a Dallas Police Department report released Wednesday morning.

A source who spoke to WFAA-TV called it a suicide attempt.

The police report says the complainant “stated that he was depressed” and that he had emptied a bottle of pain pills and was trying to harm himself, the report said.

Owens was transported to Baylor University Medical Center.

According to the KTVT-TV, doctors treated him by attempting to induce vomiting. The police report said he was treated for a drug overdose.

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said late Tuesday he was unaware of Owens’ trip to the hospital, and Owens’ agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and publicist, Kim Etheridge, could not be reached for comment.

Last week, according to Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, Owens had a reaction to the pain medicine he was given following surgery in which a plate was inserted into his right hand to stabilize a fractured fourth metacarpal. Parcells said Owens became ill and could not work out, but he was improved the next day.

On Tuesday, Owens did not speak with the media, but he appeared to be in good spirits.

He continued conditioning work on the side with associate trainer Britt Brown and caught passes. He was wearing gloves and had his ring and middle fingers on his right hand taped together.

Earlier Tuesday, Parcells said Owens would practice some today and he had not ruled Owens out from playing Sunday at Tennessee. Owens was wearing a bone growth simulator Tuesday to help the healing process. According to Parcells, the swelling in Owens’ hand had gone down, and the biggest challenge for Owens would be handling the pain of catching passes.

“I have to see him out there being a confident player,” Parcells said. “I don’t want him out there thinking about something. If it’s going act as a deterrent, I don’t want that because that would eventually hurt us. But if he can get to the point where it looks like he can function and he feels pretty good about it (then Parcells would play him).

“I’m talking to him every day, seeing how he’s doing. We’re moving forward. We have a lot of time between now and the game.”

[Guiness]

No new info, but here's another source http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216026,00.html



Who knows?

[MasonCrosby]

i imagine owens and rosenhaus hatched the plan and owens consumed the pills while rosenhaus called the paramedics...

but i hope he gets better

[Partial]

Anyone else think this is a publicity stunt based on his publicist being the one to break the story?

[mraynrand]

All this concern about Owens, what about Glenn?


From the article: ""He was trying to cut some tape off his uniform," Parcells said. "He had his hand down in his pants and he missed. Fortunately he cut his hand." "

Looks like Glenn came close to clipping off his weasel. OUCH!

[MJZiggy]

Anyone else think this is a publicity stunt based on his publicist being the one to break the story?

Who could possibly need publicity that badly. If TO want pub. all he has to do is open his mouth (or catching a ball will usually do the trick as well).