This is what happens when things are "slow."

I use quotes because in reality, league matters soon will be in full swing with the imminent discussions for a new collective bargaining agreement. But as far as the fan-friendly stuff -- player movement and actual on-field football activities -- goes, there just ain't much happening.

(An aside: I know fans are clamoring for information on "who looks good" in OTAs and the like, but if you attended these things, as we media sometimes are allowed, you would see what we see -- very little. That's because not much can be gleaned from these un-padded sessions. OK, back to the topic at hand.)

But a few stories have dominated the talk of the league the past few days, with varying degrees of interest if you ask me.

First, let's stop with the Terrell Owens obsession until he really does something stupid, can we? Correct me if I am wrong, but most readers don't want to hear every last Twitter message T.O. scribbles out (based on his shorthand grammar, I'd guess it was while driving, or lefthanded maybe) on his phone or every worthless sound byte he gives about his past employers and former teammates. It's silly.

I actually got mad when I heard ESPN say something along the lines of "wait until you hear what T.O. said about Tony Romo!" as a SportsCenter in-broadcast promo. I quickly reread the transcription from the Bills I looked at earlier in the day and thought I overlooked something. I hadn't. No, ESPN jumped all over this from Owens regarding Tony Romo's not referring to him by name: "I could care less. I mean, he doesn’t say my name, that’s fine. What about it? Bill Parcells didn’t call me by my name either, so what’s the difference?"

Am I really siding with Owens on this? Yes. It's ridiculous. It's not football. This is tabloid-esque stuff. There will come a time when Owens really does do something dumb and makes him and the Bills look bad. I say we wait until then.

Of more importance are the return of Tom Brady to health and the pending decision of Brett Favre. Clearly, they are football stories. Sick of them or not, you have to admit that the Patriots having their QB back and the Vikings potentially adding a Hall of Famer will have major impacts on their season.

I think the Favre story most bothers people because it seems that for every report that comes out, another one follows a day later that refutes the first one. There is a lot of unnamed sourcing in Favre-related stories, and that too I think bothers people. Will someone lose their job for guessing what the old man might do?

Am I alone here? Does this sort of coverage bother anyone else? If so, which storyline or player are you most sick of? Feel free to go off-list here, too. I know it's a slow time, in relative terms, but I refuse to get caught up in some things I don't deem newsworthy.