THAT'S MY NEICE Whitney Seymour who is spending her junior year in college studying Spanish in Chile. Whitney spotted this Eagles jersey while shopping in a thrift store on Friere Street in the regional capital city of Concepcion, and she sent me this photo as a shout out to her Tio Clark in Philadelphia.
IF LOOKS COULD KILL, I was a dead man based on the look Andre Waters gave me the only time I met him. We met across a crowded room and we never actually shook hands or exchanged words. But the look on his face told me he knew exactly who I was and precisely what he would like to do to me if he got the chance. It wasn't pretty.
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I'M SORRY but this picture of sadness makes me very happy. Very happy indeed. These are the faces of two Dallas fans at the Linc on Sunday late in the fourth quarter while the Eagles were driving the last nail into America's Team and T.O., America's Egotist, 38-24.. Two days later it still feels grand.
WELCOME TO T.O. SUNDAY and boy did the crowds turn out for the free beer (yes, you heard that right!) and free popcorn that the Fox NFL pregame show provided for Eagles fans outside the Linc before today's Eagles-Cowboys game. The 4:15 p.m. start almost guarantees that the 700 level faithful will be a staggering mob by game time.
EXCUSE ME while I pull this big samurai sword out of my guts. The Eagles just lost a game in a way I've never seen them lose before. And I've seen them lose in ways that are hard to make up. They were on cruise control looking as dominant and competent as I've ever seen an Eagles team look. Up 24-7 over the feckless Giants going into the fourth quarter in a game where the Eagles defense sacked the opposing quarterback eight times, seemingly at will.
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