When Alabama native
Terrell Owens’ NFL career started with the San Francisco 49ers in 1996, wine wasn’t in his playbook.
At one of Owens’ first team dinners, 49ers fullback
William Floyd told him to try some red wine, but it wasn t love at first sip. It was really dry … so that s what I always remembered of wine, Owens told
Wine Spectator. But over the past few years I ve tried to expand my palate.
Owens says he stayed away from alcohol during the season, but San Francisco’s proximity to Napa Valley was bound to have an impact, and now the NFL Hall of Famer has joined a growing list of NFL veterans in the wine business. (Among those fellow NFL stars now winning at the wine game is