This clip has been making the rounds on the Internet, so odds are you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should watch it, preferably in HD at Vimeo. At the very least, click the title of this post to see it full size. 
The premise is simple: Matthew Harding took a trip to 42 countries to film short clips of him doing a silly dance, sometimes alone, sometimes with lots of local folks, often in beautiful locations. The result is this 4:28 video.
I’m proud to share the fact that this guy is from Connecticut. They don’t call us nutmeggers for nothing.
Update: The song is (called Praan) is available at Amazon’s MP3 store.
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This guy is still one of my favorite sports writers, and his description of how he reacted to the TO news is embarrassingly about what I felt, too. It’s a sad situation when empathy is crowded out by news fatigue.
Excerpt:
“I would not do it again,” Lurie said Wednesday in his annual state-of-the-team address. “You look back on it — one year great, the second year a disaster. Nobody should be able to be as disruptive and really cut the energy of the team down.
– It’s an interesting read and contains a lot of the background about the Eagles and Terrell Owens
I want to sympathize with Terrell Owens and his contract dispute. He’s a great athlete and the labor situation in the NFL is actually pretty unfair. Teams can cut athletes more or less whenever they want yet for some reason, athletes have no way of renegotiating their contract up if they outperform their contract. So, holding out or asking for a new contract doesn’t automatically make the athlete a bad guy.
I watched 3 separate interviews and watched T.O. today with his agent get ready for the live interview during halftime of tonight’s football game (one of the perks of working at ESPN is that we get to see and listen to remote production prep and what happens during commercials on the in-house closed circuit cable system). Each time I watched him, he reminded me of an 8 year old. For all of his skill, he’s got an underdeveloped sense of consequences. I think he truly, honestly doesn’t get that there are consequences to his behavior. He simply justifies EVERYTHING he does in the moment. No context is applied. Kind of like a kid who doesn’t understand why the teacher always picks on him.
I wonder if there’s a point at which pro athletes are just too coddled and pampered for their own good. TO just seems to lack any idea that, you know, calling out teammates doesn’t really endear you to the team. Or that a coach can tell a player to shut up. Or that burning bridges might not make it easier to negotiate a deal with the folks on the other side of that bridge. At the end, I’m just pretty much thinking that he has no idea why anyone would not like him or would not want him on their team. He just doesn’t get it.
And that’s just sad.
