* More Eagle notes..
* Happy 50th Birthday, Doug Pederson!!!!!!!!!!!!! A perfect birthday present will be an Eagle victory in the Super bowl this Sunday!
- The Delaware Valley continues to be in the midst of Eaglemania as Super Bowl Sunday inches closer. Only four days and counting. The week between the championship games and the Super bowl is excruciating for the fans, but it does allow one to enjoy the NFC Championship a bit before focusing on New England.
More Eagles headline news: Church choirs are singing the Eagles' praise-literally- during services. As the week ends, more parties in workplaces, schools and nursing home facilities will occur. Friday will be Eagles Gear Day instead of Dress-Down Day. The supermarkets will be packed with fans shopping for parties. Already local delis are being swamped with party tray orders for Sunday afternoon. The sporting goods stores report that Eagles' merchandise is flying off shelves. Joy abounds as we wait for the weekend.
As anxious as most fans may get about the game, this entire ride has been fun, a time never to be forgotten,w in or lose. You wish every January could be as fun, and who knows, it may be with Carson Wentz as quarterback for the next 10-15 years?
- Patriots QB Tom Brady scoffed at the idea that the birds are underdogs. I agree, the Eagles were 13-3 this season, as were the Pats. Just to get this far is a tremendous accomplishment. But the Eagles didn't make themselves underdogs- Vegas did, the so-called football experts did, and Philadelphia overcame numerous injuries along the way.
The Eagles are just running with the underdog ball now. It has worked so far, why not? Brady doesn't want to be seen as the big, bad, spoiled tyrant, going to Minneapolis to crush the poor, weak underdog darling of fans.
Philly should continue to play the underdog card- until the game starts. Then, the Eagles need to be confident, aggressive and show New England who is boss.
- The NFC Championship Game is history, yet Minnesota Vikings supporters continue to whine, the sore losers they are. Now the Minneapolis mayor has made a welcoming video for fans coming to his city for the big game on Sunday, and the mayor made several sarcastic remarks about the Bird sand their fans. The moron couldn't just welcome both the Patriots and Eagles and leave it at that. He felt the need to make stupid comments about "greasing poles in Minnesota. "
Again, for the 100th time, Viking fans should vent their anger and bitterness to their team, not the victorious Eagles. The Viking players didn't show up during the NFC Championship Game. Their vaunted defense got lit up for 38 points. Their esteemed coach looked confused and befuddled. Mike Zimmer obviously did a poor job getting his team ready to play.
Bad luck for the Eagles that the last two times they appear in a Super bowl, the game has been held in crappy locations. First it was dismal Jacksonville, certainly not a sunny, welcome destination,; now it's cold and frozen Minneapolis, where the highlight of their city and the center of their welcoming universe is a shopping mall. Not a historical building or an important cultural area of their city, but a frigign' mall.
Minnesota fans should shut up and wait 'til next year.
* Reports are that the Kansas City Chiefs will trade QB Alex Smith to the Washington Redskins for a third-round draft pick this spring and a corner back. This deal has ramifications around the league as well.
First, Eagle fans should be happy. Smith is an average guy, nothing special. He couldn't take the Chiefs far, even with home field advantage the last few years. So, between Prescott in Dallas, Smith in Washington and whomever in New York ( Eli Manning?), Carson Wentz in Philadelphia remains the best quarterback in the NFC East.
KC will turn the page with young. big-armed QB Patrick Mahomes. And soon-to-be former Redskin QB Kirk Cousins will become a free agent as of March 14 and will lead another club next fall.
I fear Cousins more than Smith. He will get plenty of offers, from QB-needy teams like the Jets, Browns and Bills. I think he will go to Denver. John Elway isn't used to running the Broncos without a true No. 1 quarterback. With the Bronco defense, they aren't that far away from again challenging in the AFC West division.
For redskin fans, it means even more transition and instability. Washington fans will feel better in knowing that Smith will be around for four years or more, but is Alex Smith really the answer?
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