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Joe Montana knows how he might have handled Terrell Owens if he were a teammate.

“When the guy is wide open,” Montana told Jim Rome, “you kind of give him a nod and throw to somebody else.”

Trivia time: Where did Owens, a third-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 1996, play in college?

Hard hit: Among the most severe criticism of Owens came from ESPN’s Sean Salisbury.

“He is the most selfish athlete in team sports history,” Salisbury said. “This guy is as bad as it gets. ... He has become a laughingstock and a joke. ... He has no business playing in the NFL. He is the ultimate ‘I’ guy in the ultimate ‘We’ sport.”

Another hit: “T.O. believes that he was snubbed by the Eagles because they didn’t commemorate his 100th touchdown,” reader Bill Littlejohn e-mailed. “Meanwhile, a grateful press corps has sent Terrell a gold watch to commemorate his 1,000th idiotic statement.”

Another solution: Reader Janice Hough, on Owens: “He should have stayed with the 49ers, then at least he wouldn’t even be close to his 100th touchdown reception.”

Fatherly advice: Jim Mora Sr., an analyst for NFL Network whose son, Jim Mora Jr., is the coach of the Atlanta Falcons, said, “If the Falcons sign T.O., I’ll disown my kid.”

Philadelphia reaction: Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, in an effort to help Owens find peace, called Geno’s Steaks in South Philadelphia and asked about the possibility of naming a sandwich after him.

Wojciechowski reported that counter worker Anthony Marconni reacted “as if I’d requested feta cheese on my steak sandwich.” Marconni said, “Nobody is going to do anything like that around here.”

Another culinary item: Greg Cote of the Miami Herald reports that Shaquille O’Neal was spotted last week at trendy restaurant Prime 112 eating a Kobe beef hot dog.

“Some things you can’t make up,” Cote added.

A swift kick: Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona has made a comeback from personal problems and is the host of a TV show in Buenos Aires. As such, he has been a vocal critic of the U.S.-backed free-trade agreement.

Of Maradona, Mexico President Vicente Fox said on CNN: “He has a good foot for kicking, but he doesn’t have a brain for talking.”

Looking back: On this day in 1991, Marshall Faulk of San Diego State returned after sitting out three games because of injury and set an NCAA record for touchdowns by a freshman with his 20th in a 42-32 victory over Colorado State.

Trivia answer: Tennessee Chattanooga.

And finally: George F. Will, in his “Last Word” column in Newsweek, wrote: “Football combines two disagreeable features of American life -- violence punctuated by committee meetings, called huddles.”

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Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.