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Woo-hoo! Saturday afternoon, the Philadelphia Soul routed the Cleveland Steamers at the Wachovia Center to win the National Conference Championship; the team now heads to its first Arena Bowl on July 27.
(NB to the Inquirer: Come on, you guys really went with the “one victory away from bringing a championship to Philadelphia” lead? Yes, this is what they said about the Kixx and the Wings and the Barrage and the Charge — women’s soccer — and the Stars — the USFL, natch — and that online Mario Kart race I won the other day. Yes, there are other sports teams in Philadelphia besides the four major sports, but if they win a title that doesn’t mean Philadelphia wins a title or the drought is over or whatever. Okay? Thank you.)
Anyway, as you can see from the screencap from Action News yesterday, the Soul pulled out all its best players for an on-field celebration: Team president Ron Jaworski, two nuns and the team’s starting quarterback (he’s in the right hand corner). If the Soul win the Arena Bowl, does the team play the winner of the CFL next?
Update: Also awesome was this sentence in today’s Daily News:
Attentive father, devout Christian and Arena Football League Player of the Year . . . hard to make a guy like that look bad.
I believe winning the Arena Football League POY is a plenary indulgence, actually.
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dmac | 8:57 AM | 0 Comments
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May
30
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Oh, I recorded this last weekend then forgot to post it. Here’s Action News‘ Rob Jennings, reporting on tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Now that, my friends, is poetry. Is he speaking in iambic pentameter? The local news stations should totally begin all their broadcasts this way.
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dmac | 5:04 PM | 0 Comments
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Apr
16
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Ooh, look at this! The intro to Action News at 6 p.m. was everything right and wrong with America. It was about the debate, and Jim Gardner summarized the election so far: Obama’s bitter comment, Jeremiah Wright’s comments, Clinton lying about sniper fire. And then he says, “There are the issues.” Yes! The issues! Those!
Gardner then throws it to veteran reporter Vernon Odom, who explicitly admits they might be fooled by the spinmasters after the debate. But he’s so honest! Really, I want more Vernon Odom covering the election, ABC. Make this happen.
Video after the jump.
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dmac | 7:59 PM | 0 Comments
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Apr
2
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My good friend (and occasional guest poster) Mike Benner is sadly moving away to California to go chase his dreams as a medical marijuana farmer. Or maybe it’s screenwriting, the other thing people do in California. Anyway, on his blog Benner has compiled just about every Action News opening on YouTube. They’re all the same, essentially, but the above one is by far the greatest.
A young Rob Jennings (in 1981!) previews two stories before some crisis in Poland: The largest menorah in the world (in Philly!) and “King Kong and Santa Claus take the day off to cheer for the Eagles!”
Coincidentally, this was the last time Poland was mentioned on a local news broadcast in Philadelphia.
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dmac | 3:36 PM | 0 Comments
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Mar
5
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Pellet-packing punks! That’s the newest scourge in West Chester, according to Action News and its annoying seizure-inducing website. People are so mad about said “pellet-packing punks” (who are apparently white aka moon tigers) Action News‘ David Henry says the damage has gotten “has gotten way beyond ridiculous.”
Vandals in West Chester have broken the windows over 100 cars with pellet guns, causing $40,000 worth of damage. Things are so bad even the glass replacement people are unhappy! Apparently dealing with “angry customers” outweighs huge amounts of profit.
It’s okay, though, the cops have a few leads and will soon find and execute the punks. And if they don’t Henry notes it’s okay, too: “It’s gotten to the point where the vandals better hope the police catch them before someone else does.” Ahh, I see West Chester is a lot like Upper Darby.
Hunt continues for pellet packing punks [6 ABC]
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dmac | 3:30 PM | 0 Comments
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Feb
18
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Really, guys. I know this sounds weird coming from someone who runs a blog like mine, but don’t you guys have to report the actual news? This feels like an attempt at doing some sort of Daily Show-style report, only on the real news. And, uh, it’s two and a half minutes long!
Naw, I’m just kidding, keep doing dramatic exclusives on the missing M&M man. What’s on Lost this week!
It is amazing, though, that we have to put both “Action” and “News” in quotes when discussing this clip.
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dmac | 12:56 PM | 6 Comments
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Nov
17
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Last night, Lisa Thomas-Laury exposed the acronyms teens use while text messaging. She lets us know about LOL (”Laughing Out Loud”), LMAO (”Laughing My Blank Off”) and PABG (”Packing A Big Gun”). This is the second TV station to do a report on text messaging this week.
It is also the second report this week explaining to parents that “420″ signifies “marijuana.” In addition to saying figuring out Internet acronyms is as easy as “deciphering the Morse codes,” Thomas-Laury reports kids of parents who are not tech-savvy are four times more likely to do drugs. What?
Also, did you read that above?? LOL and LMAO are explained on television by a reporter bahahahaha
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dmac | 2:41 PM | 5 Comments
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Sep
21
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• The upside to the Great Center City Explosion of 2006: “Thousands of workers from several nearby buildings, including 1500 Market Street, were evacuated. At that point, [Fire Commissioner] Ayers says, many employers gave their workers the rest of the day off.” [KYW 1060]
• And, in case you really, really need to know about a ruptured power line downtown, here are all the relevant news and forum links: CBS 3, 6 ABC, NBC 10, Inquirer, Philly Future, Phillyblog, Craigslist Rants & Raves.
• The Action News morning team took a trip down the Brandywine Creek this morning. Tamala Edwards writes, “But that may not have been such a good thing, since David and Karen ended up in more banks than the earlier team of Tam and Karen. Tam and Matt sashayed down the river, talking politics and wedding planning (Tam was very anxious to get to the end of the trip; her wedding dress was waiting in South Philadelphia, with a shop owner who was about to leave on an international trip. The pressure!).” The Brandywine Creek makes you talk in the third person, apparently. [6 ABC]
• In New Jersey, you now have more rights in your car than in your home. Look for a burgeoning meth lab operation out of peoples’ trunks sometime soon. [Camden Courier Post]
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dmac | 4:42 PM | 2 Comments
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