Jerry Rice, Patrick Ewing, Rickey Henderson, Rich Gossage, Horace Grant, Chuck Person. Seattle has a long and proud history of signing aging stars late in their careers. The results have been anything but stellar. Ewing delivered his lowest career shooting and free throw percentage in a Sonics uniform, a 42-year-old Rice reeled in just 3 TDs in 11 games for the otherwise efficient 2004 Seahawks.
Today we extend that pround heritage by bringing on Terrell Owens, 38. Only time will tell where he ranks in the pantheon of Seattle greats, but Paul Allen has given him only a one-year vote of confidence.
One meaningful stat comes via ESPN, which notes that only one receiver over 35 last year had at least 20 catches. Owens is also known to be cancerous to locker rooms and couldn’t even hold on to his arena league post last season. Nonetheless, we Seattleites haven’t seen in a long time passion like he exhibited in Dallas when defending QB Tony Romo.
Here’s hoping the naysayers are being really unfair to Owens.
coming up small 
August 9th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
After TO apparently took a shitload of Vicodin in 2006, his publicist, who is hopefully out of the business, said, “Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.” Okay, so then I read this: http://es.pn/M9GSbu
Not trying to connect the two ideas or anything, but damn. The Seahawks mighta saved a life and should get a mitzvah for that, no?