Eagles Fan Survives Giants’ Fans Revenge Attempt

The author of excellent Eagles blog Bounty Bowl — as always, I also recommend Iggles Blog, too (that guy has to type <tr>’s and <td>’s all day!) was lucky enough to be at Sunday’s game. On his flight home, he notes his adventure at the airport afterward:

So by the time I got to security at EWR, I didn’t have the Trent Cole shirt on, but still had the “Winning is for the Birds” t-shirt rolling, and may have been looking a bit haggard after a day spent outside in the cold.

So I walk up to the metal detector in the remnants of my Eagles gear and step through. No alarm is triggered, per lo usual, and I show the TSA guard my boarding pass. SHOCKINGLY, I was selected for a random search that evening! The guy wearing the Eagles gear at Newark Liberty International airport! You don’t say! Note that I fly A TON (~100K miles last year), with 95 percent of those flights through EWR, and I have never been selected for a random search like that. Never. Whatever, though. I took my patdown with a smile.

No way am I ever considering this is a just a coincidence. It’s pretty great, though, that he was able to remain upbeat about the whole thing; I guess if surviving a patdown is the least one can do to help the team advance in the playoffs.

Yes, of course this incident could alter the outcome of Eagles’ games. What, that sounds silly? Did you see the article in the Daily News today about how the Eagles’ are one of the final four due to “strong character”? Any sillier than that? Well, okay, maybe a little.

Also, I guess he could be happy nobody planted drugs on him. You never know, with these Giants fans.

Enjoyable and not very aggravating travel note of the week [Bounty Bowl]
Photo by avlxyz used under a Creative Commons license

This Is, Uhm, Wait, What?

A correction from today’s Inquirer:

A commentary Friday incorrectly described an eight-gate terminal for commuter planes as the “small” Cincinnati airport.

Is this snarky or something? Or is it… oh, let’s go back to the original commentary. Looks like the word “small” was quietly removed from the article. Or maybe it didn’t contain the word at all. You know what? I think it’s just easier to be confused.

Clearing the record 8.6 [Inquirer]

Chris Freind Stands Up For French, The White Man

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on Chris Freind, America’s Best Columnist™. But, since he stopped by the comments to plug his interview with Georges Perrier, I figured it was time to take another look.

In his interview with Perrier, the two talk about how awful the foie gras protesters are and how the ducks actually enjoy being tube fed until their livers become the size of Buicks. (Apparently, ducks don’t have a gag reflex, which means they’re not being tortured. I prefer my animals to suffer before they die, so forget foie gras as a delicacy.)

Perrier also bashes all the other restaurants in the area for not defending him from the four people protesting over foie gras: “Steven Starr is a coward. It makes me mad. Starr used to be a big leader in the restaurant industry, but he removed foie gras because he didn’t want to fight (the protesters).” Oh, wah, wah, wah. How dare he run his business how he wants to! Did you know he made his restaurants no-smoking, too, before the smoking ban passed?

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Down The Shore: Atlantic City’s Casinos To Get Taller

Did you ever wonder why Atlantic City casinos aren’t all that tall? You look at them and go, “Wow, those are ugly. I’m surprised they’re not uglier and taller.”

Or maybe that’s just me. Anyway, the casinos aren’t quite as tall as they could be because of Bader Field, an airport right in Atlantic City. (This is different from the Atlantic City International Airport.) Apparently, these bureaucrats think that planes need “room” to “land.”

Well, the casinos got their way recently, as Atlantic City formally filed papers to close to airport — which, according to the OED, was the first one in the world called an “air port” (neat!).

You can see the casinos salivating — literally, the actual casinos — and getting ready to become even taller, glitzier versions of their previous selves any day now.

On the plus side, hey, does that mean more places to gamble?

A.C. files papers to close Bader Field [Press of Atlantic City]