Warren Sapp Unveils Local Food Industry’s Nefarious Plot To Lose Back-To-Back Home NFC Championship Games

Warren Sapp, the defensive lineman the Eagles passed on for Mike Mamula, doesn’t eat out on road trips. Is he trying to slim down from his current approximate weight of seven school buses? Is he just a picky eater?

No, of course not. Sapp doesn’t eat out on road trips because he’s convinced waiters on the road poison his food to help the local football team win. He even booked two hotel rooms, one under an alias, so he could get his room service without worrying about it.

One of those times he said he was poisoned was, of course, the 2002 NFC Championship Game. (Which, uh, the Buccaneers won, 27-10.) “I know it’s real, especially in Philly, come on,” Sapp said.

Come on, indeed. And how is he sure of this? Why, an incident a month after the NFC Championship:

For example, Sapp said that about a month after the Bucs won the Super Bowl, he and a friend traveled from Philadelphia to New York to watch Michael Jordan in his retirement tour at Madison Square Garden. First, they had dinner in Philadelphia, trading plates at the restaurant after their orders came. Then, Sapp said, his friend repeatedly threw up all the way to New York.

I haven’t been able to find a Warren Sapp sighting in any old stories from the Daily News‘ Dan Gross, so if anyone knows what restaurant this incident allegedly happened at, send it over.

But I don’t really know if I follow his reasoning here. You’d think if local restaurateurs had a plot to poison other teams’ food during road trips, the Eagles would have won more than just one of their three straight home NFC Championships. Right?

Sapp insists food was tampered with on road trips [AP/ESPN.com]
Washed-up NFL player accuses Philadelphia of poisoning his food, back when, you know, there was a chance he could actually impact the game [The Illadelph]