By Tim Kelly, Sports Talk Philly editor 
Former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens, who is a Hall of Fame finalist, joined 97.5 The Fanatic's morning show with Anthony Gargano and Brian Baldinger Wednesday for over an hour, discussing a variety of topics, including his short-lived, controversial 21-game tenure with the Eagles.
Naturally, the team's Super Bowl 39 loss was discussed at length, with Owens admitting that even he doesn't know whether Donovan McNabb threw up in the huddle during the team's final drive of the game:
"I've gotten this question so many times and people think I'm pulling their leg when I say 'I didn't see it, I didn't know anything about it.' When they said that he threw up in the huddle, I didn't know about that until like a week later, until somebody asked me. I remember, I was in Miami and I did an interview and my comments were, in regards to him throwing up, I was like 'if anybody should have been out of shape, it should have been me.'"
Owens says that by suggesting that he, if anyone, should have been out of shape, he ended up taking a brunt of the blame for the story, even though he says he doesn't even know if the story is true:
"I didn't see it. This is who said it, Hank Fraley and Freddie Mitchell, who out and said or said that he was throwing up in the huddle. And I didn't know anything about it. But obviously when I made that comment about me, if anybody should have been tired or throwing up it should have been me, I got blamed for it, out of all people."
For the record, Fraley suggested that McNabb was 'almost puking,' while Mitchell said that McNabb didn't seem to be injured and seemed to be coughing to "get something out," but never actually said that McNabb was puking. Brian Westbrook said that McNabb 'didn't seem sick.' Then fullback Jon Ritchie says that 'it looked that way' in regards to the rumor, but that's not a definitive answer.
Former cornerback Lito Sheppard claimed that McNabb 'subtly puked,' which might not even be a thing, as he walked up to the line of scrimmage, not when he was attempting to tell the offense what play was going to be run. Sheppard's version of the story is shaky to begin with, but when you consider that he was on the sideline and no other player on either team has been able to confirm his version of the story, it's hard to take his claims too seriously.
McNabb, who did a Reddit "ask me anything" last February, said that no such puking took place:
"No, I didn't puke. It's unfortunate that we still talk about this 11 years after playing in the Super Bowl. But, no. That did not happen and hopefully we can stop talking about it. Once again, go watch the game tape."
In McNabb's defense, he's correct in that no video has ever shown him puking during the Super Bowl. And considering that it was the Super Bowl, you would think one of the many NFL Films cameras would have caught McNabb puking, if that did indeed happen. McNabb did puke, on camera, during a 2007 game in Tampa Bay, but that's unrelated to this story.
That Owens had to find out about the Super Bowl story from the media leads you to think that either it didn't happen, or as Sheppard suggested, it was subtle, meaning it really didn't affect the game. But considering that the Eagles haven't won a playoff game since the 43rd President of the United States was in office, it's not surprising that stories like this continue to be rehashed.
