T.O. (Terrell Owens, Philadelphia Eagles, the great)! Until just a few days ago I though the letters T.O. meant too old or too odd.
Terrell Owens just a few days ago played football with the NFL Philadelphia Eagles. Not only played but it was said of T.O. “one of the best or the best to play the game”. He entered into a brawl with his own teammates a week or so ago and no longer plays the game with his team. His team really needed him and of course this could change the outcome of the Eagles. Now for the ones of us that are ” Washington Redskin Fans” we just might not really mind not having him there. We are just thrilled that he is not there!
Brian William’s of NBC reporting last night about T.O. commented “No individual (I) is bigger than the team.” I thought right Brian, ‘I ‘ never makes a team. Many of us join a team and we only see I or me. Sometimes we speak of our team but we play the I.
I heard from one report that in the middle of one game T.O. was so thrilled with himself and his play that he ran over and autographed a football for a fan. Sure the one fan loved it but what about the team or even the other fans?
Why would I join a team and think only of I?
Why would I not stop to think what I really mean to our team?
What does your I say about you?
When you write or speak I, does the one watching only see or hear arrogance, pride, angry, self obsession or some other form of “I” ism?
By the way T.O. saw he was in trouble after the brawl and has now made a public apology and again that is good for T.O the “I” but doesn’t help his team in a crucial time of the teams outcome for the possibility of Super-bowl Sunday. Too late T.O.!
Are you on a team in your home, church, work or play? What does your ‘I’ say about you?
‘I’ play, they don’t?
‘I’ have special rights, they don’t!
‘I’ am better than the other(s) so I can do as I please?
‘I’ am older and get paid more?
There is a team called “I AM” and “I AM” is lead by Three (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and some of us have joined “Their” Team and have forgotten how to play with The Spirit of The Team.
What is your part and position and attitude about “The I AM” and team?
From the news reports it looks like T.O. is still looking backward and The Philadelphia Eagles
have forgotten about Terrell Owens and moving forward. Remember that- Coach Joe Gibbs of The Washington Redskins!
Phil 3:13 NKJ The Apostle Paul speaks ” … I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before..,”
thedailylily.com 
This puts being a team player in the right perpective and how important it is for me to remember in all my ‘team’ situations. Thanks.
It seems to me that teamwork is a gift that you give to the others with whom you are sharing in a common mission of whatever sort, whether it be a ball team, a teaching team, a cleaning team or a medical team. The cooperation and the give & take are what invigorates and keeps the team moving in the right direction. Strife and selfishness block the team’s progress and hearts are discouraged when one does not support or cooperate with the TEAM. Grandstanding is not a team sport and those who do that to their “team” give the message that the rest of the team, as said in Sara’s message, is zero, nada, zip.
BUT…the real star of the team is the one who cooperates and encourages and sacrifices for his/her teammates, if necessary. No greater love has anyone than the one that lays down his/her self life so that others may shine. That’s Biblical!!!
Well, well, well! Seems like T O has some big honcho on his “team”, now. It seems Ralph Nadar is taking up for T O and has gone to “BAT” for him which seems doubly unlikely in the football dimension. I wonder which part of disloyal, uncooperative and unethical Ralph Nadar doesn’t understand????