Once an arbitrator ruled that Terrell Owens had to pay back the last $769,120 of the signing bonus the Eagles gave him after they unceremoniously split back in 2005, he threw the NFL Players Association under the bus during an interview yesterday on Mike Tirico’s ESPN radio show –

“It is what it is,” Owens said. “Honestly, I’m disappointed in the union. The second time that we’ve kind of used their services, I’ve been very, very disappointed in that.”

So, to recap, it is the fault of the NFLPA that Owens signed a contract in Philly, wanted to tear it up a year later, then proceeded to put up a tantrum before the Eagles organization had enough and showed him the door?

Doubtful.

Owens’ reaction is nowhere near surprising. He threw most of his quarterbacks under the bus also. Ask Donovan McNabb, who openly campaigned for the Eagles to bring Owens in, and by the end of his stay they were speaking through intermediaries. Jeff Garcia experienced the beginning of T.O. at his peak “give me the damn ball” years, when Owens blamed Garcia for many of the 49ers struggles when they were teammates. It would have been quite entertaining to be a fly on the wall a year ago when Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb roomed together in summer training camp. Their exchanges must have prompted quite a few chuckles about how no matter how much they kept throwing and throwing, nothing was enough for the man who likes to say (and show) “I love me some me!”

So now here Owens is again, showing off the side most people have seen the most out of him — the side that dishes out blame in every direction but his own.

Sure, he may have squeezed off a few tears for his current QB, Tony Romo, but do not be fooled, folks. The real T.O. is always dying to jump back out into the spotlight and expose his true colors. If those colors are ones you do not enjoy, that is not T.O.’s fault. That blame rests solely on your own shoulders.