January 19, 2004

Philly Fans

I usually disagree with Washington Post sports columnist Tom Boswell, but today he hit it right on the mark with his remarks about the fans at yesterday's Philadelphia Eagles/Carolina Panthers NFC Championship game. The spectators at Lincoln Financial Field, Boswell observed:

never booed until the end of the third quarter. But their lust for judgment, their blighted anticipation of misfortune and their ominous silence hung over this game. For vast chunks of a close battle, when their cheers were desperately needed, the Eagles' crowd held its breath and awaited its fate. You can't blame them. It's tradition. It's Eagles history. It's a city's heirloom called disaster.

Early in the season, with the Eagles off to an 0-2 start, the fans called their team the "Stink at the Linc." Now I am not in any way an Eagles fan, but this attitude is disgusting. Combined with local parochialism that is unmatched in any NFL city -- so bad that visiting fans are often threatened with bodily harm just for showing up -- and you have a combination of the two worst charecteristics in sports. Drunken, unruly fans who hate their own team only slightly less than the visitors.

After surviving Rush Limbaugh's offensive September comments, Donvan McNabb deserved better. But he plays in Philadelphia, so he's stuck with what he's got. Which is not enough to keep him there. Of course, big players win big games, and McNabb's Eagles have now lost three straight conference championship games. Remember Danny White? Despite his talent, leadership and toughness, McNabb is now in that same class. Philly's fans are jaundiced, but they may actually be right, too!!

 Posted by glenn

Comments

Dear Mr. McNabb,

I often watch you in the games, TV comericals and your Mom. I love seeing you guys.
My problem is I ordered a boblehead of you from Taskycake. I was very disappointed with them. I receive your boblehhead broken in three pieces.

The shoes were broken off, the football was broken off and nothing was on the platform. My grandkids told me to throw it a way but I refuse. I glued it several times and the head came off. I put it back on and it broke in the same peices. AS I send you this e-mail I trying to glue it again, It does have a lot of glue on it and I'm constantly fixing in the same places as Takeycake sent it to me. I hope you can help me. It took 6 boxes of marked Taskycakes. They did you no justice.

Thank You

Esther Soto

Posted by: Esther at January 3, 2005 02:37 AM