Terrell Owens Crying: Desperate Attempt to Earn Sympathy a New Low for Star WR

Terrell Owens has been called many things in his 15-year NFL career, but one word that has never been used to describe him is "sympathetic." He is doing his best to get our sympathy with a teary-eyed promo on his VH1 show, though that comes off as more of a cheap tactic to make people feel sorry for him than genuine emotion.

On the latest episode of The T.O. Show, Owens is on the phone with someone, presumably his accountant, and he is talking about how they have always told him that he is "one of their best clients as far as spending habits."

They cut to a talking head with Owens saying that he has had financial problems due to some bad investments and how he doesn't know what he is going to do but he is not going to call his mom because she will just worry.

Because mentioning it on a national television show is so much different than calling your mom and telling her what is going on.

Maybe Owens is telling the truth and he is having financial problems. Most people are having financial problems right now, so it is not out of the realm of possibility that Owens could be dealing with something similar.

But given the fact that it has to be a focal point of his reality television show, in which VH1 is most assuredly paying him some money to do, and the way the whole scene plays out in his house, this whole thing looks like a cheap attempt on the part of the producers of the show to turn him into some kind of conquering hero that we can all root for.

Perhaps I am just being too cynical, but we have seen this act with Owens too many times before to get sucked into it again. He cried defending Tony Romo after a playoff loss, he cried after catching a game-winning touchdown pass. If he wants sympathy from people, he is going to shed tears because he thinks it is going to work.

Unfortunately for him, it is not going to work anymore.

The way that Owens talks on the phone and says that money has just been randomly disappearing from his account, wouldn't you think that he would look into the people handling his money or identity theft?

I guess that is the magic of "reality" television; you can create a story about anything that you want and the naive people that watch will believe it because they don't understand that nothing you see on "reality" shows is actual reality.

This ploy on Owens' part to try and get people to cheer for him is far worse than anything that he has said and done as an NFL player. There are plenty of people around the world that have lost everything, and he is trying to exploit that to come off as a sympathetic figure.

The problem is instead of looking sympathetic, Owens just looks pathetic.