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Taming T.O.: like other problem guys who have worked for the NFL's master psychologist, Terrell Owens will fall in line. Bill Parcells won't have it any other way.(NFL)
Andre Tippett felt he had earned it. He was, after all, a 34-year-old 11-year veteran. As the Patriots' 1993 training camp wore on--and the heat, contact and boredom asserted themselves--Tippett craved a day off.
He floated the idea to new coach Bill Parcells. "I thought it was my time," Tippett says. It was his time, all right--time to learn about Parcells.
"He said, 'I'm not going to give you a day off, but if you think you need it, take it,'" Tippett says. "That left me on the spot. I thought, 'I better show up for practice.'"
Tippett showed up, but he had given Parcells some ammunition. For the next few practices, Parcells kept asking ...
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