Sunday, September 16, 2007

Eagles Week: Feel the Love


Unlike her Eagles week only comes twice a year

It's time to feel the love again. The Redskins will be in Philadelphia tomorrow night and as we have for 15 of the past 16 Eagles-Redskins games, lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery and I will be there.

For those following at home I wore my colors for the first time last year and was mugged on the way in. I'll be wearing my colors again this year but as precautionary measures I will be accompanied by my lawyer, a bodyguard and a full Curly R camera crew. Wilbert Montgomery and I have been in contact with VH1 and ESPN about producing a reality show on the rivalry tentatively titled Our Wives Are Pissed But We're Going Anyway. Stay tuned for a big announcement.

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The Onion reports that the loyal fans in Philadelphia have given Donovan McNabb three weeks to win it all, once and for all, if he can't produce the Lombardi trophy by week four he's out:

While many football analysts agree that McNabb has done a phenomenally good job in a less-than-ideal situation for the last eight years, blaming Philadelphia's failure to advance to the Super Bowl on such varied areas as undisciplined offensive execution, inconsistent defense, excessive penalties, lackluster pass protection, and almost criminally bad play-calling, fans say they are tired of people making excuses for McNabb.

"So what's our crybaby quarterback going to blame next, the NFL schedule?" fan Ed Cooke said in a call to Radio 610WIP's Howard Eskin. "He's the quarterback. If the team sucks, it's his fault. I think McNabb's lucky we're only asking for one Super Bowl in the next few weeks, because what he owes us is a three-peat by December."


That's funny to me because we listen to a lot of WIP on gameday and they take Eagles football very seriously.

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All of this reminds me, didn't Eagles fans boo when the team selected Dono over Ricky Williams?


They did it again this season when the team selected University of Houston quarterback Kevin Kolb in the second round.



One more, does anyone remember this? The guy that ran onto the field at Eagles Stadium in November 2005 to spread his deceased mother's ashes on the paying field? I don't know what's more noteworthy here, that Eagles fans want to have their ashes spread on the field or that the team has to have a policy on these types of requests.

It's Eagles week people.



Screencap of insane woman from the Saints-Eagles playoff game last season from here. Great video of some drunk Eagles fans talking about this game here.

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