T.O. the (sort of) philanthropist

As most people are aware, Terrell Owens is donating his NFC Championship ring from last year's season to Hurricane Katrina relief. Well not the ring itself, but rather the proceeds of the ring after it has been auctioned off on eBay. Yesterday the winning bid was $82,001, as of today the winning bid is well over $300,000.

Why couldn't T.O. just donate a couple hundred thousand to the relief and call it a day? Obviously he wants to always be a spectacle. Dropping 200 grand on hurricane relief isn't exactly much of a spectacle. Especially in the wake of Al Gore's personally financed rescue missions. But what's more spectacular than a 73 diamond encrusted white gold ring?

This is a nice slap in the face to the Eagles. Not only is he saying, "hey, you don't pay me enough to donate money personally so I have to sell my stuff to do it," but he then tops it off with, "and since I could give a crap less about the poor excuse for a football organization you call a team, I'll sell the ring you gave me at the end of the year."

Nice. Way to help smooth the waters with the front office heading into the season. Tony on PTI loves T.O., loves him. I mean, the guy is pretty dern entertaining, but he's also a pretty big prick. Let's just hope his production keeps up to propel my fantasy team to domination once again.