Dysfunctional Sports: It's all about the team
It takes a team to win the Stanley Cup, the World Series or the Superbowl, but some players just don't have that ‘team' mentality. Lets take a look at some of the characters that teammates shook their heads at.
When former baseball-star and Toronto Blue Jay, Jose Canseco, sold out his former teammates by writing a tell all book about steroids, he was so desperate for cash that he named former and current MLB players that where using steroids. Ratting-out players like Mark McGwire, Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro, Canseco went on major news channels and programs talking about the problems of steroids in the clubhouse. After the book, Canseco hit the small screen and appeared on MTV's Surreal Life, with all of Hollywood's other broke and washed up stars.
I'm sure the money from the book and the TV show is about to dry up, so maybe Canseco's next book could be about ball players that cheat on their wives.
Now this teammate is hard for me to write about because, I never knock the hustle, but Pete Rose, aka Charlie Hustle, was banned from baseball for life for betting on games. Rose finally admitted in 2004 that he bet on baseball, but never against his own team, the Cincenatti Reds, while other reports conclude he did. I hope Pete Rose never bet on being in the Hall of Fame, because even with his 3000-plus hits he's ineligabal. Rose also made headlines just this past week selling baseball for $1000 signed- “I'm sorry I bet on baseball Pete Rose.”
My Personal Favorite dysfunctional teamate is the one and only Terrell Owens. Owens, who you may remembered for giving an interview in his driveway of his home while working out with weights that would put Fanshawe's FITNESS 101 to shame, also made this comment about fellow teamate at the time Donavan McNab:
“(He) wasn't the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.”
When not busy playing proffesional football, Owens also likes to make hip hop records with lyrics like,“I got a brand new team, I'm a Cowboy now. No more black and green. To the haters who said I'm not going to get my money, I'm laughing in your face ha-ha, that's funny.”
Unfortunately for Terrell, the song never did crack the Billboard 100.
When former baseball-star and Toronto Blue Jay, Jose Canseco, sold out his former teammates by writing a tell all book about steroids, he was so desperate for cash that he named former and current MLB players that where using steroids. Ratting-out players like Mark McGwire, Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro, Canseco went on major news channels and programs talking about the problems of steroids in the clubhouse. After the book, Canseco hit the small screen and appeared on MTV's Surreal Life, with all of Hollywood's other broke and washed up stars.
I'm sure the money from the book and the TV show is about to dry up, so maybe Canseco's next book could be about ball players that cheat on their wives.
Now this teammate is hard for me to write about because, I never knock the hustle, but Pete Rose, aka Charlie Hustle, was banned from baseball for life for betting on games. Rose finally admitted in 2004 that he bet on baseball, but never against his own team, the Cincenatti Reds, while other reports conclude he did. I hope Pete Rose never bet on being in the Hall of Fame, because even with his 3000-plus hits he's ineligabal. Rose also made headlines just this past week selling baseball for $1000 signed- “I'm sorry I bet on baseball Pete Rose.”
My Personal Favorite dysfunctional teamate is the one and only Terrell Owens. Owens, who you may remembered for giving an interview in his driveway of his home while working out with weights that would put Fanshawe's FITNESS 101 to shame, also made this comment about fellow teamate at the time Donavan McNab:
“(He) wasn't the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.”
When not busy playing proffesional football, Owens also likes to make hip hop records with lyrics like,“I got a brand new team, I'm a Cowboy now. No more black and green. To the haters who said I'm not going to get my money, I'm laughing in your face ha-ha, that's funny.”
Unfortunately for Terrell, the song never did crack the Billboard 100.
