That sound you just heard is the collective groan of every science professor in Lubbock after Texas Tech Red Raiders product and 2024 NFL Draft prospect Tyler Owens said that he doesn’t believe in space or planets outside of Earth.
“I don’t believe in space,” Owens said at the NFL Combine on Thursday. “I don’t think there’s, like, other planets and stuff like that,” he added.
“I thought I used to believe in the heliocentric thing where we used to revolve around the sun and stuff. But then I started seeing flat earth stuff and I was like, this is kind of interesting. They started bringing up valid points, so I mean I don’t know, could be real, couldn’t be.”
Texas Tech's Tyler Owens, who's a favorite to post the fastest 40 at this year's NFL combine, doesn't "believe in space," as in "other planets," and feels flat-earth theories have some "valid points." pic.twitter.com/jE2jv9vyLv
— Brent Sobleski (@brentsobleski) February 29, 2024
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Those are real, literal statements devoid of any figures of speech. He truly doesn’t think that the celestial bodies countries worldwide spend gazillions of dollars studying are real. Speaking of which, he also seems to be entertaining the idea of the Earth being flat. At this point, it’s par for the course for the NFL Draft hopeful to believe that the planet he’s living in is not the shape that every experiment has proven it to be.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but the existence of planets, stars, moons, etc. in SPACE and the shape of Earth as an oblate spheroid is never an opinion. It is a proven fact. Then again, Owen can believe whatever he wants to. He obviously believes in himself to be successful in the NFL, and fortunately for him, it’s not contingent on whether he believes the Earth is flat, round, or shaped like a, well, football.
Owens, who declared for the 2024 NFL Draft after playing for the Texas Longhorns from 2019 to 2021 and for the Red Raiders from 2022 to 2023, had an interception and 69 total tackles in his college career.