Former Dallas Cowboys Star WR Says Players Have ‘Slave-Type Mentality’ Regarding NFL Team Owners

This week, Terrell Owens, a former standout wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, made strong remarks regarding the ties between NFL players and team owners. In his opinion, players currently have too much power in the configuration.

On Wednesday, Owens appeared as a guest on The Jason Lee Show. Owens didn’t hold back when making controversial remarks during his presentation. He brought up the subject of race multiple times, claiming that it played a role in Colin Kaepernick’s expulsion from the NFL.

Lee questioned the Hall of Fame wide receiver about the lack of a black owner in the NFL. After all, the vast majority of black players compete in the NFL. With the exception of two owners who are not black, the majority of the owners are white.

The NFL, according to Owens, functioned “like a good ol’ boys league” because to its voting mechanism. Before they may own a team, owners must cast their votes for an owner. The new inductees of the NFL fit the existing quo because white owners make up the bulk of the league.

When a player joins a team, Owens claimed that an imbalance in the league’s structure leads to a “slave-type mentality”: “You look at the dynamics of that, that slave-type mentality, and I think over the years we’ve had several conversations,” Owens added. “With many of the guys that play in the league, I know that I have.”

The way it’s set up, these owners, really. In all honesty, they are making the players believe that we depend on them rather than that they are aware of their own power.

Owens wasn’t kidding when he said that. In an NFL when the majority of players are of one race, but the individuals in positions of power and signing paychecks are of another, it’s critical that the league have this conversation.

It’s hardly shocking to hear Owens state that many players are unhappy with the racial dynamics at play in ownership, given the history of NFL owners employing racial innuendo. Not to mention how the NFL treats black coaches in comparison to their white counterparts.

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