The Player you Hate

There's one person on my fantasy team I'm starting to definitely not like. There's one person who runs the risk of sheerly irritating me with his antics. Tom Brady skipped out on practice last week; well ok. Domanick Davis has an injured knee and might not play; ok. But this guy... effin Terrell Owens, DRAMA QUEEN. He doesn't go to practice at all because he has a "hamstring" problem? Then he gets fined and doesn't care. Yet he still thinks he's the greatest wide receiver ever while he sits at home in San Francisco, I hope Jerry Rice beats some sense into him.

I came across a portion of his tottally incredible auto-biography online. Apparently, his drama has been ingrained on him since childhood. He has sheltering issues: Terrell was only allowed to leave the yard to attend church or school. In the evenings he’d creep to a window and sob as he saw children playing in the street. He was eventually given a bicycle but not allowed to ride it past the end of the driveway. He doesn’t remember hearing the words I love you from his mother “or anyone else,” he writes. But not even that was the worst of it. This might explain why he just wants to stay home.

And then his life is just odd altogether from other childhood trauma: At age 11 Terrell developed a crush on a girl across the street and began sneaking over to flirt with her — until her father told him that he could not “be interested in her” because she was his half-sister. “It took me a while to understand that I was talking to my father,” Owens writes. When he asked his mother why she’d never told him that his father lived across the street, she said that “it wasn’t necessary to explain everything to me.” Which could continue to explain dysfunctional faculties in his professional career.

Who is the guy on your team you love to hate? Which player drives fear about your team potential to be great this season? Which player drains more of your attention than an overbearing girlfriend? Who has great potential that could drive the success home, but could end up wrecking it all....