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Originally Posted by Counter-Tre

The fact of the matter is when you are constantly making a spectacle of yourself, you put yourself under a magnifying glass and that magnifying glass is going scrutinize the good AND the bad. No one put a gun to T.O's head and said do sit ups in your driveway for the press, say McNabb was tired during the Superbowl, insinuate that Jeff Garcia is gay - the list goes on and on. Sure players probably doze off in meetings but the ones that get away with it are the ones that aren't screaming "Look at me!!!" every five minutes.

No no one put a gun to his head, but the the media follows him to his house constantly harassing him and when he does answer questions what do they ask him? Questions that insinuate bad qualities about his character. Listen to the questions they ask him most of the time, he just answers them truthfully to the best of his ability from what I hear. I mean some of the things he says may be offensive to people but the only thing I see wrong with what he says is that he doesn't know when to be PC on everything. Pretty much everything he has been criticized for has been something someone has suspected and asked him about and when he answers it he gets crucified for saying what he thinks. He doesn't fabricate crap to 'shake things up'. I don't think he is a bad guy and he has said some things that would have been better left unsaid but he isn't how the media has chosen his image to be shaped. And this 'Look at me' stuff you are talking about is just untrue. Just because the media chooses to show him all the time doesn't mean he asks for it. Guys who create spectacles every week to get attention are players like Chad Johnson.