In what turned out to be one of his final days as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005, Terrell Owens got into a physical fight with Hugh Douglas. Soon after, Owens was suspended indefinitely.
Owens talked about the fight with Darren Sproles on a new episode of his Fubo Sports podcast Getcha Popcorn Ready with T.O. & Hatch. He claimed that Douglas instigated the fight by accusing Owens of faking an injury.
Thursday on WIP, Douglas responded to Owens’s version of events.
“Me and T.O. are cool now, but it’s amazing how T.O. is misremembering. I’m not going to call him a liar. But he is misremembering the story. T.O. said something to me first.”
Douglas’s midday partner Joe Giglio told the audience that someone from Fubo sent them the audio.
“I think T.O. Is forgetting a lot of the history with all of that that went down,” Douglas said. “Now, first of all, he instigated something with me because obviously, somebody told him I was on the radio. That’s when I first started and I was on the morning show with Angelo. Angelo was going in on him. And the reason why Angelo was going in on him is because we had just played Dallas that weekend and T.O. wore a Michael Irvin jersey at the end of the game.”
Douglas has talked about this before since returning to WIP earlier this year. He has blamed the fight on Cataldi, who accused Owens of quitting on the team that morning. He also said he wanted Owens run out of town.
“Angelo takes it all, well, you know I love him to death, but it went from 0 to 800 real fast.”
Douglas added that there was an awful lot that Owens got wrong in retelling the story. Owens says it never got physical. Douglas says both men through punches, but neither connected and teammates broke them up.
Owens also insisted that Douglas’s relationship with quarterback Donovan McNabb had something to do with the confrontation. Douglas says that he and McNabb are friendly to each other, but they were not friends. He wouldn’t have started a fight for the guy.
“The NFL is a brotherhood and I respect the brotherhood just like I respect any other brotherhood that I’m a part of. I respect that,” Douglas concluded. “So I never said anything to him about him quitting because I know him. Listen, I saw T.O. every day for a year, work his butt off. I saw T.O. work his butt off to play in the Super Bowl. So, why would I say anything about him quitting on the team? Now, him wearing a Michael Irvin jersey, which I assumed that he forgot that he did, was the catalyst for all of this. This is the straw that broke the camel’s back, because if you remember after that game, that’s when Andy Reid sent him home.Because that’s the one thing that you don’t do in Philadelphia is do that like, especially after an L.”
