The Has Been Section

"Man I don't wanna sit up there!"

When Sir Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity he made the famous statement, “What goes up must come down.” The famous actor, comedian, pianist and singer Jimmy Durante(1893-1980) said it best, “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”  The old sisters of the church would say, “Don’t throw garbage out of the window because somebody might just throw it back in.” In other words bruh, keep your head down, stay on the grind and be productive without all of the rah rah!

For years, being productive was never an issue for Terrell Owens but keeping his head down and shutting his mouth has been. The 2^nd most prolific receiver in NFL history was sent to the crib with no cigar by the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. He had previously started 201 of the 219 regular-season NFL games he has played in. He had 1,078 receptions for 15,934 yards and 153 touchdowns. Ridiculous production!

However, when the production falls off, boyz aren’t so willing to deal with the foolishness. The only reason Dez Bryant is working today is because he’s 23 years old with a crazy upside. T.O. is 38 and he’s not catching the football at the same rate as before but he’s still running his mouth at the same speed. He’s what you would call and trash talking scrub at this point. By definition that’s an oxymoron playboy.

There aren’t any jobs in the NFL with that job description. If you’re gonna talk trash and be a locker room cancer then you’ve got to be better than everybody else on the team. The only place that you can talk trash and not be able to play is in the stands in the hood. There’s always a bunch of cats sitting around watching the game and talking a 100 worth of noise to those that are actually playing.

The old pimps would show up drunk talking way too loud and telling boyz how good they used to be. When I was in high school they all sat way up top at the games. We called it the “Has Been” section. Well, I guess T.O. can be the man up there now because half of those cats were lying to begin with. He’ll at least have film to prove that he was once good. I can see him now showing up with a camcorder to prove it. I can also see him getting tapped up because the “Has Been” section doesn’t allow proof of performance. Everybody was the man and that’s that. It’s like the boyz that are locked up, everybody’s innocent.

With all the personality that T.O. has he would be great for T.V. because if Jerry Rice and Lomas Brown have jobs ANYBODY can work. Those two duns sound like they’re in the 2^{nd and a half} grade in a cow pasture in the middle of nowhere. Listening to them talk is like someone scratching the chalk board. However, they’ve kept their noses clean and that’s all that counts right? Wrong! I demand that you get these dudes a speech therapist ASAP.  Lomas especially sounds like he's got a mouth full of Laffy Taffy, licorice, gummy bears and diet soda.

It’s unfortunate that T.O. is going out like a sucker with the numbers that he put up during the course of his career. He should have been able to retire 2 or 3 years ago in style but because he ran his mouth and didn't pay attention to his bread, it retired before he did.  I hope that these young boyz can learn a valuable lesson from this. Shut up, grind, count your own money and don't trust Lil Elbow and Ray Ray nem with it!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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