The “Dallas Sucks” chants erupted with 2:56 left in the first quarter Sunday night at the Linc. Yes, Philadelphia, there is a Santa Claus — and he’s gift-wrapped a dream, winner-takes-all matchup next week against the Cowboys. After Dallas eked ...
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Tough Crowd: Philly’s “Other Teams” Fight Through The Clutter
Sticking Up For The Little Guys Fighting for relevance is never easy. And fighting through the clutter of an over-saturated sports marketplace can be downright impossible. Even with the advent of niche blogging and budget-less marketing plans, sometimes some of ...
Read More »Eagles Rally To Beat Lions In Snow Globe Game
The Bounty Bowl, the Body Bag Game, even the infamous Snowball Game, will live on forever in Philadelphia Eagles’ football lore. After Sunday’s cold-filtered 34-20 victory over the Lions at the frost-bitten Linc, there’s a new contender: The Snow Globe ...
Read More »Mr. Snider, Give Us Back Our Hockey Team
Leave. Go away. Give us back our hockey team, Mr. Snider. The Chairman is free to sit in his plush luxury box and play Flyers games from the 1970s on loop, just don’t try to re-create those teams on the ...
Read More »King Nick headed for coronation
It almost feels like a scene straight out of Hollywood. The Eagles ongoing, and self-inflicted, quarterback controversy — or, as offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur termed it, the quarterback conversation — seems a bit too glitzy for Broad Street. Especially after ...
Read More »Mr. Rendell, Build Allen Iverson A Statue
There’s been only one real stain on Allen Iverson’s glorious tenure in Philadelphia. One big, miserable blight that started and ended with one simple word: practice. Erase that stain from your stream of consciousness. Another former NBA great, Gary Payton, ...
Read More »Eagles-Patriots: 5 Questions We’re Asking
We all have questions as the Eagles line up for real — well, kind of for real — tonight at the Linc. We don’t expect Chip Kelly to reveal too much about the intricacies of his up-tempo offense. Obviously, he’ll ...
Read More »Camp Kelly: 5 Random Observations
It was a light day at Eagles training camp Thursday. Chip Kelly’s squad snuck in a third joint practice with the New England Patriots, but it was a practice disguised as a walk-through. The session featured mostly special teams work, ...
Read More »If Cooper taught us anything, retire the N-word
Riley Cooper, the name that launched a thousand opinions. Seriously, everyone from here to Baghdad — OK, maybe not that far — is talking about the Eagles’ receiver after he dropped the ultimate no-no, the Amanda Bynes of racial slurs. ...
Read More »No regrets for Donovan McNabb
Love or hate him, Donovan McNabb earned the lofty accolades heaped upon him Monday morning. The Eagles won a lot of football games with No. 5 at the helm, a fact that cannot be disputed. McNabb retired as the franchise’s ...
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