Former All-Pro receiver Terrell Owens on Wednesday gave his first interview since being rejected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Appearing on “The Tim Graham Show”on Buffalo radio station WHLD, Owens again took shots at the Hall of Fame voting process. Owens, who ranks second all time in receiving yards, was on the Hall of Fame Committee’s list of 15 finalists this year, his second year of eligibility. “Considering my body of work and what I’ve done on the football field, that should be justification in itself for me to have gotten in as a first-ballot Hall of Famer and definitely this year,” Owens told Graham in a telephone interview. MORE:LaDainian Tomlinson, Kurt Warner make Hall of Fame Owens’second rejection by Hall voters seems to be a clear message from the committee that character issues carry major weight in the voting process. “No. 1, it’s the judgment on my character,” Owens said. “You listen to guys like Bill Polian and Dan Fouts that have said, you know, coaches and players have come to them or pulled them to the side and said that I was a horrible teammate. That’s what really rubs me the wrong way, because I know, No. 1, how I was raised. When you talk about character, that’s a sensitive subject for me, because I know who I am as a person. “Just because I had some disagreements with some coaches or some players, that doesn’t mean that I’m a bad person or disruptive or a…more detail
