Seventeen years after the Eagles lost to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIX, Terrell Owens is still on about Donovan McNabb playing the game after (Owens alleges) partying the previous night:

This tweet is a follow-up to the splashy story Owens told in December:

“I’ve talked to teammates since then and know for a fact that he was out the night before, he was out the night before, before the biggest game pretty much all of our career. People that saw him out the night before said he was drinking, and I think that attributed to him throwing up in the huddle.”

There are plenty of reasons to shrug at this allegation. Owens has a long history of doing and saying anything to bring attention to himself. Owens also has a longstanding grudge against McNabb, who Owens has repeatedly blamed for blowing up the Eagles’ mini-dynasty in 2005. Further, the logistics of Owens’ allegation are hard to square. The Eagles had a curfew the night before that Super Bowl, and besides, with a 6:30 p.m. kickoff, it would take a significant episode of binge-drinking to meaningfully impact a professional athlete’s performance even if that athlete didn’t get to bed on time.

McNabb has done himself no favors since that Super Bowl loss, Arrests for driving under the influence in 2013 and again in 2015 are no proof of intoxication during a Super Bowl played years before, but they are suggestive of someone who has a propensity to let the bottle do the thinking.

Owens’ tweet received a notable reply, too:

That 2:22 a.m. time stamp is, um, something.

We are probably long overdue for a “30 for 30”-style video documentary about the four years the Eagles made it to the NFC Championship Game and the one time they made it to the Super Bowl. Presumably, whoever puts that show together will get to the bottom of whether McNabb was out the night before the Super Bowl and if so, for how long.

Until then, we are stuck with Owens’ story such as it is.