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Eagles Shoving Way To Super Bowl All year, we Eagles fans have been waiting by the phone, waiting for somebody to call us up and tell us we’re not alone. These hangups were getting us down. And yesterday, Donovan McNabb told us, “Hello, operator, headed to the NFC Championship with this number of regular season wins: 9!” Sorry, I’m done. Kudos to the Daily News for their “Can You Hear Me Now?” cover, though; not only was it good, it prevented me from making the first paragraph in this post worse. In terms of celebrations, yesterday’s McNabb phone call was more Joe Horn (couldn’t find the cell phone to celebrate) than one of Terrell Owens’ carefully scripted stunts. But no matter. It was, by far, the best thing McNabb has ever done. If you didn’t like that yesterday, stop rooting for my football team. I’m sure he’ll take some flak for it — after all, McNabb can’t win here no matter what he does (even if the Eagles win the Super Bowl, I’m serious). Yeah, it was stupid — he got a 15-yard penalty — but one can only assume he was calling Plaxico Burress, thanking him for shooting himself in the leg and making this game a bit easier easier. (But, really: Whatever. I don’t know if Burress would have mattered yesterday at all. Down two scores in the fourth, the Giants were essentially running the ball into the line. Eli Manning, for whatever reason, was sloppy all game; would he even have been able to get the ball to him?) Video after the jump!
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Aikman’s line at the end that gets cut off is “You know sometimes, I, I don’t know what runs through that guy’s head.”
Apparently, McNabb is right up there with the Chad Johnsons of the world, always grabbing at sharpies and proposing to cheerleaders.
Troy Aikman is a humorless, stiff, unintelligible, Cowboys-homerish douche. And he isn’t very good at his job, either.
That is probably the greatest moment in Donovan McNabb’s career. I love him because not only is he one of–if not the–best QBs in the league, he will do anything for a laugh at all at any time. That was funny and awesome, and I think if I were the Giants I would have been laughing my ass off. Fifteen yards = worth it.
@Honeynut But his hands, they’re so huge! (Seriously, take a look next Sunday when they show booth shots. His hands are totally comically large.)
@Mike In the video you can see the referee laughing after the play.
Here’s what I was thinking during the game, apropos of nothing: Would Vai Sikahema get a 15-yard penalty for punching the Giants’ goalpoast if he did it now? My guess is yes.
@dmac
Two girls who were watching the game with us spent a solid 10 minutes discussing the size of Aikman’s hands, what his ring size must be, and if he has to get special gloves made.
If Joe Buck was around when Vai went at the goal post, JB would have gone down to the field and personally scolded him. Joe Buck likes his sports like he likes his chicken broth - lukewarm and without any flavor.
That’s what pisses me off about NFL coverage. The only interesting thing Reggie Bush has done since taking a house from an agent was that flip in the end zone in the playoff game against the Bears a few years back, and he was vilified for it.
I mean, whatever, nobody is really going too hard on McNabb, and Buck and Aikman weren’t even that over the top about it, but I just wish I could watch a football game and not have to listen to rantings about the decay of American society, or at least American football. Especially when it comes from Joe Buck. It’s why I like Madden, still. At least he tries to do some analysis (even when it’s stupid) and doesn’t moralize about how players aren’t being good enough corporate citizens for the league.
However, I think Dan Dierdorf is the most worthless analyst in the league, at least among the top guys. I hate to actually agree with Phil Mushnick, but his column here is spot-on.
soul asylum reference? nice.
I’ve been listening to “Somebody to Shove” all day since.
Hey, you gotta give it to him…he does know how to have fun. But the flipside of that is that it’s very poor sportsmanship!!! Don’t know what goes through his head, but part of me wants to see him get to the Super Bowl and see if he ‘pukes’ or not :-)
If McNabb was a real showman, he would have leaned over to pick up that phone… and then puke all over it.
Also DYK Soul Asylum played the Clinton inauguration in ‘93?! Wow.
Do what I do–mute the TV and turn on Merrill Reese. Then you don’t have to listen to Joe Buck. There’s a bit of a delay on the radio side (less so if you’re watching the digital feed) but it’s worth it.
Don’t be hard on Troy. His Victoria’s Secret underwear itches and makes him cranky. It did when he played for the Cowboys and it does now that he’s in the booth.