Terrell Owens looks back at flamboyant playing career and gives his list of greatest WRs
Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz is joined by the 6-time Pro Bowl wide receiver on Radio Row at Super Bowl LVIII to discuss the last time he did sit ups in his driveway and his wildest Vegas story. Terrell joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of M&M's.
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- Hanging out with Terrell Owens, on behalf of M&MS. By the way, brought peanut butter ones. You're not leaving with these. I'm taking them.
TERRELL OWENS: You can have them. They're good.
- Oh, look at that. He's giving them to me.
TERRELL OWENS: They're good. They're comfort peanut butter M&Ms.
- I mean, I'm just saying if I eat these, I'm going to look like-- no, I'm not, but still--
TERRELL OWENS: No, you won't look like me--
- [LAUGHS]
TERRELL OWENS: Yeah. But you can definitely-- they taste good.
- Yeah, there's no doubt about it. We're going to talk about M&M's in a minute. But first, we're going to play a game. What's in the cards. So this is simple. We're going to play high or low. I'm going to put a card up. You tell me as the next card is going to be higher or lower. If you get it right, you get an easy question. If you get it wrong, you get a hard question. Are you ready?
TERRELL OWENS: OK.
- All right. First card up. Oh, man this is easy. You get a two out of the eight. So are you going to go higher or lower than a two?
TERRELL OWENS: Lower. No, I'm just kidding.
- [LAUGHS]
TERRELL OWENS: [LAUGHS] Higher.
- All right. He's going higher, and it's a queen. He's got two-- all right. So easy question. Wildest Vegas story.
TERRELL OWENS: Oh, wildest Vegas story? I think I lost about $10,000 gambling blackjack.
- OK, so like--
TERRELL OWENS: That's my wildest story.
- Are you a big blackjack player?
TERRELL OWENS: Yeah, I love blackjack.
- OK. So I grew up here, and you would think I'm great at-- I'm not. So I take the little card, and I put it on the table because the card tells me what--
TERRELL OWENS: Yeah, the little tutorial? It gives you what you're supposed to do in certain situations.
- So we could play at the same table? You wouldn't be mad if I pulled the card out?
TERRELL OWENS: No, no, no. You just-- sometimes we need a little cheat sheet every now and then. It's not cheating, but a little guidance to make sure you're doing the right thing.
- I do think, though, if you lost $10,000, we're playing at different tables. So I'm just saying we're playing a different tables. All right. So are you going higher or lower than a queen?
TERRELL OWENS: Lower.
- Yeah, he's making this easy so far. Ace, ace.
TERRELL OWENS: What is the ace, though? Is it higher or lower?
- I cheat. I'm-- I cover the--
TERRELL OWENS: Higher or lower? You didn't specify that at the beginning?
- No, I didn't because I wanted the flexibility to make sure that I could do whatever I want. Now, we'll give this to you. So I'll give you another easy one. Yesterday I talked to Jerry Rice. I asked Jerry Rice, the three best wide receivers of all time in his mind not named Jerry Rice. You were on that list. How does that make you feel?
TERRELL OWENS: Why wouldn't I be on that list?
- Ah, that's fair.
TERRELL OWENS: [LAUGHS]
- I should have known-- so who are your three top-- top wide receivers all time. Not you. I would say Jerry, Randy--
- There's one other name that Jerry gave us. Let's see if we-- because he gave us Randy, too. Not surprising, Randy Moss. I'm going to say Larry Fitzgerald.
- OK, all right. Michael Irvin was Jerry's-- was Jerry's.
TERRELL OWENS: OK.
- All right. So let's get-- you want to go higher or lower. This is a 1. There we go, yeah. It's a two. My God. Like, he's just absolutely crushing this game. So I'm supposed to give you an easy question here. When's the last time you did sit-ups in your driveway?
TERRELL OWENS: Probably a couple of summers ago.
- I mean, just--
TERRELL OWENS: Yeah, just doing a reenactment of it because we were talking about it. I think it might have been, like, during the pandemic because everybody was talking about different stuff or what have you. And yeah, so I think some people wanted me to reenact that thing.
- I'm going to be a professional interviewer for a second and turn this into a hard question, though, because during your playing days, it felt like sometimes the conversation was about everything other than just your playing. So as you've stepped away from your playing days, when you look back at all that era, do you feel like there was this moment where people were worried too much about you as a person and not you as a player?
TERRELL OWENS: Yeah. I, mean, that was probably before my time, you know what I mean? With some of the things that I did because if I did those things now I would be a sensation. I'd probably have like millions of followers-- this and that and the other. But yeah, I just tried to have fun with the game. I don't consider myself a trendsetter, but some do in my own right. But I just try to enjoy the game and play with a lot of passion.
- All right. You're joining us on behalf of M&M. Part of that is a commercial you did with Dan Marino. I'm just throwing in one more question. Dan Marino, a better quarterback, better actor?
TERRELL OWENS: I'm going to say a better quarterback.
- OK.
TERRELL OWENS: He didn't do bad, though. In addition to my guy Bruce Smith, who was also in that commercial. And then obviously, the commercial just got revealed I think yesterday. And we had a special guest that appeared. I mean, Scarlett Johansson. You can't get any better than that. So it was awesome just to be on set with, obviously, fellow Hall of Famers but obviously to share a set with her. Again, like I said I can say that I been on the screen with an eight-time A-lister, you know what I mean?
- There's no doubt about that.
TERRELL OWENS: But we do share something in common. We came up short, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? So we're almost champions. That Oscar has been elusive for her. The Lombardi was elusive for me. So we shared some comfort peanut butter M&Ms.
- Yeah, I'm going to share these--
TERRELL OWENS: It made everything better at the end. Yeah.
- This is about to make the end of this better. Everybody can check out the commercial, obviously, at the Super Bowl.
- Yeah, go to mms.com if you want to see the full commercial, too.
- It's amazing. Thanks for hanging out with me, brother.
TERRELL OWENS: Absolutely.
- I'm going to eat some M&Ms.
TERRELL OWENS: Higher or lower?
- Higher. Ah! I got it wrong. Son of a biscuit.
TERRELL OWENS: Not going to the tables with this guy.
- No. [LAUGHS]
TERRELL OWENS: [LAUGHS]