2005 wasn’t the best year for Philadelphia Eagles Quarter Back Donovan McNabb. The Philly star recently opened up to ESPN about the trials and tribulations of the year past and even went on to call some incidents an act of ‘black on black crime.’
McNabb made more headlines for incidents off the field than on this year, and one of the more known stories last year was his verbal battle with former teammate, Terrell Owens.
“It’s been frustrating, it’s been disturbing, but it’s been a learning experience,” he said of the year. “It’s something that all of us, as men and as football players, not just on the Philadelphia Eagles but across the league, for everyone to understand what is going on and what has happened and be able to move things in a positive direction.”
The comments that set the tone for the beginning of the end for Owens came during an interview with former pro Michael Irvin. In the interview, Irvin suggested that the team, who was struggling at the time would be better off with Packers QB Brett Favre at the helm of the offense.
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“That’s a fair assessment, I would agree with that,”T.O. replied
“In that situation, it was kinda like, ‘That’s unreal.’ That’s just like me saying, ‘If we had Steve Largent, if we had Joe Jurevicius, we’d be undefeated. He’ll now have to answer the question for the whole week about me saying it,”McNabb says in hind site.
He further goes on to compare the incident to a case of black on black crime.
“It was definitely a slap in the face to me. Because as deep as people won’t go into it, it was [a] black-on-black crime. And to say if we had Brett Favre, that could mean that if you had another quarterback of a different descent or ethnic background, we could be winning. That’s something I thought about and said, ‘Wow.’ It’s different to say if we had Michael Vick, Daunte Culpepper, Steve McNair, Aaron Brooks, Byron Leftwich. But to go straight to Brett Favre, that slapped me in the face, like what I’ve done and what I set out to do…”
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McNabb also spoke out about other T.O. incidents and other events of 2005.
Source: ESPN.com
