Before he signed with the Cowboys, there probably wasn’t a single NFL player who angered fans in Dallas more than Terrell Owens. And that anger was never felt more passionately than it was on September 24, 2000, when Owens, playing for the 49ers, scored two touchdowns at Texas Stadium and followed them up with preening celebrations on the star at midfield.

During the second of those celebrations, Cowboys safety George Teague decided he had had enough, and he ran to the center of the field and leveled Owens. That started a skirmish between the Cowboys and 49ers — a skirmish that Owens ignored while he got back up and resumed posing atop the star — and it made Teague something of a hero for fans who disliked Owens.

Teague’s hit on Owens was a long time ago, and Owens now wears the star on his helmet, but that doesn’t mean Cowboys fans have forgotten what Teague did. In an interview with The McAllen Monitor, Teague was asked whether fans still talk to him about it.

“There probably isn’t a day that goes by when I’m in Texas that somebody doesn’t ask me about it,” Teague said. “That was an event, a play, whatever you call it, that put a little stamp on my history with the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a great talking piece. Terrell and I haven’t talked much since then. But it is a great topic of conversation at all the tables I sit at.”

Teague adds that he’s happy to be known for the incident, but that he has no ill will toward Owens, whom he says he’s glad to see succeed with the Cowboys.

See a video of the Teague-Owens incident here.