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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Peace and Love for Hall, T.O.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Don’t know which Christmas tunes you Falcons fans have been bumping in your Bat Mobiles. But I had that old Jackson Five disc in. You know, when Jermaine asks Michael, “What do you for Christmas?” And the old Michael –- pre-bleaching, real nose and Afro Michael -– blurts out “Peace and Love for everyone.”
Well he’s got his wish. At least part of it.
After an intercession by Deion Sanders, there’s nothing but Peace and Love between Atlanta’s DeAngelo Hall and Dallas Terrell Owens.
Here’s how the peace accord went down.
T.O. contacted Primetime. Who contacted D. Hall. While Hall wouldn’t called Owens his friend, he said the spitting incident was behind both of them.
He credited Sanders with setting up the call. “He was pretty persuasive,” Hall said. “He’d actually been calling the past couple of days, calling Deion to get me on the phone, but like I said. I didn’t want anything to do with the guy.” Hall eventually decided to listen.
“I told Deion this after I got off the phone with him,” Hall said. “I don’t think my Mom could have got me to the phone with that guy. For you to be able to get me on the phone speaks highly of the amount of respect that I have for you as a person and as a mentor to me.”
Now with Peace and Love settled with T.O., will Hall not let Steve Smith run past him this week when the Falcons play Carolina?
