Two of America’s most hated were in the same place at the same time last night when the NFL Network aired the first part of Deion Sanders’ interview with T.O. during halftime of the Bengals-Steelers game. The content of the interview is to be expected: Owens more or less saying that he needs to be more involved and the offensive scheme should be constructed around him. And you know, both of those statements are probably accurate. It’s the not saying them in public part that T.O. still doesn’t grasp.

But the content isn’t the most interesting part. As PFT points out, take a look at the shirt Owens decided to go with:

That looks strangely similar to any number of vintage Eagles t-shirts I’ve seen. Nah, it’s probably just some strange coincidence. Surely, a green shirt with an Eagle on it in no way made T.O. think of the football team he once scorned. He just looks good in that color.

See also: Shutdown Corner taks a closer look at Deion's sweater, which reminded us of our top 5 sporting sweaters of all-time. Sanders' bold fashion statement might crack any similar future list.

Chad Johnson will not participate in tonight’s Bengals-Steelers game, which should affect nothing whatsoever because you aren’t silly enough to still have him in your fantasy line-up, the Bengals weren’t going to win regardless and the game is on the NFL Network, which you don’t get, so you weren’t gonna see Chad play anyway.

The team said they won’t address why Ocho Cinco's been benched until after the game, but for now all we know is that he violated a team rule. The possibilities are endless.

What does make this funny, however, are the comments his agent Drew Rosenhaus made about Johnson this morning:

“Tonight’s a big game for Chad, because it’s a national TV game,” Rosenhaus said. “It’s been a tough year for Chad. It went south really when Carson Palmer got injured ... As far as Chad getting a new contract or being traded, you know, the bottom line is this: I can’t objectively look at Chad’s season this year and say that he can be held responsible for the fact that he hasn’t had the kind of production that he’s had in the past, because of the quarterback play.”

Yep, things went bad only after Palmer was injured because Johnson was totally setting the world ablaze prior to that. But certainly, Rosenhaus will find someway to blame tonight's benching on Ryan Fitzpatrick.

UPDATE: Adam Schefter is reporting that Johnson was deactivated for getting into a fight with a Bengals employee at a team function. And this is why our company doesn't do holiday parties.

UPDATE II: Mark Curnutte, the Bengals beat writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer, is now reporting that Johnson simply overslept and missed a team meeting.

Troy Williamson, who was drafted No. 7 overall by the Vikings in ’05, never did anything of value in Minnesota and is now busy continuing to be a bust in Jacksonville, has challenged his former coach to a fight:

Williamson said Wednesday he lost respect for his former coach [Brad Childress] last year and would like to "duke it out" with him when the Jaguars host the Vikings on Sunday.

"We can meet on the 50-yard line and we can go at it," Williamson said.

Williamson says he’ll even fight with both hands tied behind his back, which, if you’ve seen the effectiveness of Troy’s hands, you’d realize is an advantage for him. But Childress isn’t backing down, probably because he has a mustache which is a clear indication that he is not to be trifled with. Plus, there's this:

When pressed about his height and weight on a conference call, [Childress] responded: "Do you need my reach? I'm not like a woman; I'll give you my weight. It's 190 pounds of twisted steel and rompin', stompin' dynamite.”

So clearly, Williamson would be best served not fighting Childress, but rather earning reverence with his play between the lines. Although that might be difficult seeing as he’s already been ruled for Sunday’s game with a groin injury. It may or may not be related to his manhood suddenly waning after challenging a 52-year-old to a fight.

Adam Jones, the artist formerly known as Pacman, finished the inpatient bit of his alcohol rehab. Now Roger Goodell will evaluate his clinical data. How Goodell is qualified to do this in any sense is beyond us unless he's picked up a clinical psychiatry degree somewhere in the past month or so, so he's probably going to nod along with whatever experts tell him and make his decision as to whether Jones has recovered from his "alcohol problem."

Putting his phone down for just a few seconds, Chris Mortensen had this to say about the evaluations:

"If they come back and say Pacman Jones doesn't have an alcohol problem, then that creates a whole new range of problems."

Translation: "What if the doctors come back and tell us he's just an idiot." This is a real problem: what if you have a player who, when left to his own devices, will set his own pants on fire and plow cars into innocent trees at an alarming rate? What do you do if the official diagnosis on a player is "terminally stupid; no treatment options available."

The option for the Cowboys is to control as much of his life as possible while getting someone to make sure he doesn't try to fry frozen turkeys or do other insanely dumb things with himself. However, Mortensen is completely right here. A diagnosis of dumb for Pacman might in fact be far worse than a diagnosis of an acute alcohol problem. There are established protocols and treatment programs for alcohol abuse: 12-step programs, therapy, and my favorite, joining the British Theater and becoming a generation-defining actor. There is no cure for just plain stupid, and under the American Disabilities Act there are no exceptions for firing the terminally stupid because of their condition.

There was much made on Monday about Donovan McNabb not knowing that NFL games end in a tie if no one scores during the 15-minute overtime period. And rightfully so. It is a rule that even the most casual of NFL fans know, so it goes without saying that you’d expect a veteran NFL QB to know it, too.

Ben Roethlisberger would beg to differ, however. When asked yesterday about McNabb not knowing the OT rules, the Steelers’ QB claimed that half -- HALF! -- the league doesn’t know that there are ties in the NFL:

"People are way too hard on Donovan, making way too big of a deal about this," Roethlisberger said Tuesday. "You'd be surprised. I'd bet at least 50 percent of the league didn't know that at the time. ...

People just assume that the quarterback should know it all and everyone should know that stuff. Whoever thinks about that situation? How often does it come up? The rules change so often that you never know what happens."

Yeah, those pesky overtime rules, always changing and stuff. It’s so complicated. I mean, they altered the OT rules as recently as ... 1974. But you couldn’t possibly expect the quarterback to know a rule that’s been in place for 34 years.