Catch This!: Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon

In a sport full of players who are larger than life Terrell Owens towers above the crowd.. It isnt just that he holds the NFL record for catches in a single game (twenty) or that hes the most feared wide receiver in the game. Its also his penchant for unique self-expression -- spiking the ball on the midfield Texas lone star in front of a hostile Dallas Cowboy crowd pulling a Sharpie from his sock to sign a game ball after a touchdown and dancing with a cheerleaders pom-poms after another TD. Never politically correct and always controversial and colorful on and off the field Terrell Owens has transformed himself into TO the outrageous gridiron personality who has rocked the entire NFL and the sports landscape. But Owens is more than touchdowns dancing and celebrations. In this wickedly insightful book hes full of sharp-eyed observations on the contentious demanding insane phenomenon that is pro football.. In Catch This! Owens takes readers back to his hardscrabble childhood in rural Alabama where he was raised by a stern grandmother and loving mother. By the time he won an athletic scholarship for football at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga the once small bullied boy had transformed himself into a very large man with a super body and an iron will to succeed. He takes us behind his apprenticeship to -- and eventual eclipsing of -- the legendary 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice. He pulls no punches when it comes to his extremely public fight with San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci -- a relationship so sour that they didnt speak at all during the crucial final weeks of the 2001 season. And finally he lets loose on the free agent scandal that shook the NFL in 2004 -- and reveals the truth behind the NFLs attempt to deny him free agency his fraudulent trade to the Baltimore Ravens and his ultimate happy landing with the Philadelphia Eagles.. For those who think they know both Terrell Owens and TO catch this story.