# Fucking Philadelphia Eagles **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696 "2003-01-19T23:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/21 "2003-01-20T13:54:10Z")
They did that before they had “bye weeks”. ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/22 "2003-01-20T14:30:19Z")
Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa Go Tampa ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/23 "2003-01-20T14:32:32Z")
The Raiders will not beat the Buccaneers. This Superbowl is going to be reminiscent of the Superbowls of the late 80’s and early to mid 90’s where the NFC dominated whatever lamb-to-the-slaughter AFC team managed to hoist themselves out the dung heap. In this case, it’s the Raiders. I predict not just a win for the Bucs, but a crushing decimation of the Silver and Bleak. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/24 "2003-01-20T15:06:31Z")
Pirate Superbowl? Heh, good one. I really firured the Iggles would run away with this one. Tampa Bay is to be commended. Next week… Raiders 34, Bucs 27. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/25 "2003-01-20T15:41:27Z")
For all the Tampa bay fans not in the Tampa Bay area, this little [diddy](http://wild987.fm/audio/mp3/welcometorayjay.mp3) is being played all over the damn city. I am so sick and tired of it already but to someone that hasn’t heard it, it may be all right. ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/26 "2003-01-20T16:21:19Z")
I love the rap! My gp’s used to live in a neighborhood by the bay on knight’s ave, looong time ago. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/27 "2003-01-20T16:56:34Z")
FUCK!☹ :mad: Seeing that the Packers were out of it I wanted to see **ANYBODY** except\*\* Tampa Bay in it! We went down to Tampa in November to pay $200 a ticket watch the Bucs humilliate the Pack. Then we stayed another 2 weeks. You would have thought those fuckers had cured cancer, AIDS, and Crabbyness the way everyone was ranting on the television. “We beat the Pack! We beat the Pack! We’re the greatest!” Hey, I can understand that shit for the first few days, but they were doing it even after the Tampa/New Orleans game. What the fuck? Call me a prick, but I really wanted to see Tampa Bays fans taken down a peg by having their team lose yesterday! Like the OP says:Fucking Philadelphia Eagles! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/28 "2003-01-20T19:13:14Z")
First of all, props to the Bucs. They came prepared, they had a game plan, and they looked like a real Super Bowl team. The Eagles were so out-coached that the NFL might want to re-think that whole Coach of the Year nonsense. Reid coached scared the whole game. Why the hell would he forget what got us there? Why didn’t he throw 9 men at Johnson early? The last thing he should have said to Jim Johnson, the Defensive Coordinator, before the game started was, “I want to see Brad Johnson on his back, looking through his ear hole, 3 or 4 times before the half. Make it happen.” _That’s_ what Philly brings to the party on defense: a befuddling array of blitz packages that throw offenses off kilter and has them guessing wrong the rest of the game. What did we do? Nothing. We looked like a high school team. We deserved to lose. And now it’s clear that our offense is not strong enough to overcome a weak performance by our defense against a real contender. I am so disgusted right now, words cannot express it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/29 "2003-01-20T19:33:24Z")
Fuck? ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/30 "2003-01-20T19:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Anyway, I’m just curious as to where the Vet’s rats are going to take up residence. (I’m referring to the four-footed ones. The 700 Level rats will pack up to the new stadium.) Watching them getting fat on discarded pretzels was a pretty good distraction from inevitable Phillies defeats. \*\* Think of that episode of the Simpsons where Bart’s factory collapses, and the rats all run to Moe’s. “OK, everybody tuck your pants into your socks!” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/31 "2003-01-20T20:02:09Z")
No matter who wins the Superbowl, it’ll be a former Vikings quarterback holding the trophy. Shit. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/32 "2003-01-20T20:23:04Z")
Well, although the Eagles definitely deserved to lose yesterday, i’m afraid i don’t quite undertand why some people are so down on Donovan McNabb. Sure, he didn’t have his greatest game ever, but he was far from being the sole cause of the Philadelphia loss. Also, but for a matter of a yard or so, the game could have had a very different result. The Eagles were down 20-10, but had marched down the field to about the 20-yard mark and were looking good when Ronde Barber intercepted and ran 80-odd yards for a TD. If the Eagles had scored there, the finish might have been very close. Now, i know it was McNabb who threw the pick, but it was also a fantastic defensive play by Barber. Also, only seconds before, McNabb had made one of the most amazing plays ever to get the Eagles within striking distance. It looked for all the world like he was going to be sacked, but he shrugged of two huge defenders, circled around, evaded another, and threw a bullet that was caught and advanced Philadelphia down into the red zone. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by pkbites_ > **We went down to Tampa in November to pay $200 a ticket watch the Bucs humilliate the Pack. Then we stayed another 2 weeks. You would have thought those fuckers had cured cancer, AIDS, and Crabbyness the way everyone was ranting on the television. > “We beat the Pack! We beat the Pack! We’re the greatest!” > Hey, I can understand that shit for the first few days, but they were doing it even after the Tampa/New Orleans game. What the fuck?** Hey, this sort of thing appears to be par for the course among local media outlets and fans. Here in Baltimore, the local sports reporters fall all over themselves to cheer the Ravens when they win, and always manage to say something - anything - positive about them when they play like shit and get their asses kicked. Never once have i heard these “journalists” offer a critical comment about the team as a whole or about individual players. It’s one big fucking love-fest all around. A few weeks before the playoffs, Baltimore had a mathematical chance of making the post-season if it won both its remaining games and got lucky with a couple of other results. The local Fox news had an ex-Raven (can’t remember who) on their sports show, and the two sports reporter asked him if he thought the Ravens would make the playoffs. The ex-player said “No” and pointed out that, with the way the Ravens had been playing and the teams they were to come up against in the following two weeks, it was highly unlikely they would win both games and get the results they needed elsewhere. This was a perfectly reasonable analysis of the situation (and entirely correct, as it turned out), but from the reaction of the reporters you would think the guy had made a speech condoning pedophilia or something. There was a stunned silence, and then one of these idiots turned to the camera, gave a half-hearted laugh, and said something like, “Well, folks, he’s entitled to his opinion and we’re entitled to ours.” Bruce Cunningham, you’re a fucking dickhead! ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/33 "2003-01-20T20:29:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **Actually, I’ve never fucked a Philadelphia Eagle, although I’d say that [A.J. Feeley](http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/store/the_team/players.asp?id=98) is somewhat attractive.** Yeah, I was just thinking that ‘fucking Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders’ would probably get a lot more views … ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/34 "2003-01-20T21:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Fuck? \*\* Be this statement, solicitation, or open ended query? Inquiring minds wish to know. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/35 "2003-01-21T14:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nightshadea \* > \*\*Oh answer this for me … Didnt they used to have the super bowl a week after the playoff game? I can sort of remeher when thered be a sunday off between the playoffs and the final game > > Am I nuts ? \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*They did that before they had “bye weeks”. \*\* Not really, JB. Apparently they had only one week off in 1982, 1990, 1993, and 1999. There’s an article here on the topic: [http://www.superbowl.com/xxxvi/ce/feature/0,3892,4897323,00.html](http://www.superbowl.com/xxxvi/ce/feature/0,3892,4897323,00.html) Taken from the link: > [@](#): > > Discussion about preparing for the Super Bowl invariably leads to debate over how much time teams have – or need. > > Almost any coach will tell you that he prefers two weeks between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. Most players think two weeks is too long. > > This year is a rarity, with just seven days off before the big game. Since 1970, the only other one-week pauses were after the 1982, 1990, 1993, and 1999 seasons – each necessitated by some peculiarity in the schedule. (Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego also will have a one-week gap.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/36 "2003-01-21T14:31:03Z")
Blame it all on William Penn. He put a curse on the city. For years & years there was a city ordinance that no building within the city limits may be taller than City Hall (a statue of Penn is on the top). Philly sports has some great times in the 60s, 70s, and the early 80s. The last championship team was the 1983 76ers. The very next year, 1984, the building ordinace was removed allowing skyscrapers to tower above William Penn. Ever since buildings have been taller than Penn we haven’t won a goddamn thing. The solution is simple, to appease William Penn we must blow up the Philly skyline (this is a joke, blowing up any buildings is a horrible idea). ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/37 "2003-01-21T14:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Frank #2 \* > \*\*The solution is simple, to appease William Penn we must blow up the Philly skyline (this is a joke, blowing up any buildings is a horrible idea). \*\* Of course its a joke, you don’t blow up buildings, you implode them, duh. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/38 "2003-01-21T15:20:38Z")
I am also surprised that there is not at least one weekend off between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. It seems like at least one time, there were TWO weekends off. If the Packers had made the Super Bowl, I would have had a tough choice to make because the Michigan Wolverines women’s basketball team is playing Penn State at 5 pm on the same day. Since the Packers are not in the SB, I will go to Ann Arbor and watch the Wolverine Women play PSU. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/39 "2003-01-21T15:29:45Z")
I must say, i don’t quite understand the concern over playing the Superbowl the week after the conference championship games. These guys are professsional athletes; that’s what they get paid the outrageous salaries for. And any coach who needs two weeks to prepare his strategy shouldn’t even have got to the Superbowl in the first place. Just my 2c. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696/40 "2003-01-21T16:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mhendo \* > \*\* Never once have i heard these “journalists” offer a critical comment about the team as a whole or about individual players. It’s one big fucking love-fest all around. > > \*\* Our sportscasters have no problems at all criticizing the Bucs when it’s warranted. After the horrible playoff showings of the previous two tears, they placed the blame exactly where it belonged. Additionally, the organization was lambasted over the way they let Dungy go and the search for a new coach. Pebs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-philadelphia-eagles/149696.md?page=3)