Eagles-Cowboys, Tonight!

Oh, it’s on!

The suddenly resurgent Phillies have the night off, and it’s the Eagles who take center stage in our tiny town’s all-too-important sports world as they take on the Cowboys in Dallas tonight.

Be ready to hear a lot about Donovan McNabb versus Terrell Owens tonight. No, really. Like be ready to hear about it nonstop, without fail, until the end of time, because when the Monday Night Football announcers (read: Tony K.) get on a topic, it’s impossible to get them off. It should be an excellent, game, though, and maybe the magic this town had over the weekend will travel down to Texas to give the Eagles a win.

If not, though, it’s probably best to avoid sports talk radio for a while. Actually, that’s a good idea even if the Eagles win.

Eagle Fans Upscaling In Merchandise

First there was “Dallas sucks, T.O. swallows.” Then “Dallas sucks, Romo’s a homo.” (Har.) And now, it’s official Tony Homo jerseys.

What’s amazing is this actually got printed. Remember when the NFL wouldn’t print “Gay” on the back of a custom jersey despite having at least one player with that last name. Is it an official NFL.com jersey, or are there bootleg “Tony Homo” jerseys out there?

Eagles Fan Supports Tony Romo! [Bleeding Green Nation]

Philly: Not The Cowboy Capital Of The World

Today’s Metro contains an article about Cosmo Fattizzo, a Kensington school truancy officer who participated in Cowboy U: Colorado, the sixth season of the CMT reality show. It’s like Survivor in that the contestants have to go out and rough it, but it’s unlike survivor in that you probably don’t have to eat bugs.

Fattizzo takes a strong stance against Geno’s:

“They shot me walking to 9th Street and shopping at the Italian Market,” he said. “They kind of tried to get a real South Philly angle. They were like, ‘Let’s go get a steak at Geno’s.’ And I said, ‘But guys, I don’t eat Geno’s steaks.’ They said, ‘Come on.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I don’t do that.’”

But the real treat is the article’s sidebar, about how three of the remaining female contestants have ties to the area — although the one’s a bit of a stretch — along with Fattizzo. But the show says they weren’t specifically looking to recruit Philadelphians, even with our long tradition of watching cowboy reality shows on a channel I’m not even sure Comcast carries. (Okay, I’m pretty sure they carry it.)

The money quote from CMT spokesperson Natasha Powell:

“It was sort of a complete coincidence. It could just be that [Philadelphia] had good candidates, people really interested in becoming cowboys and cowgirls. There is no conspiracy to take over Philadelphia and make it cowboy capital of the world or anything.”

Yeah, if there’s one thing we like in Philadelphia, it’s the Cowboys.

SouthPhiladelphia native stars on cowboy reality show [Metro]

Lead of the Century

While the Penn basketball team was leading Texas at halftime, the Penn wrestling team was competing in the national championships. And one Penn wrestler, Matt Valenti, went out and won the national title Saturday.

But, on Friday, Valenti upset a member of Oklahoma State’s wrestling team — nicknamed the Cowboys — and Penn’s Matt Herrington edged another OK State wrestler. Which led to this lead in the Daily Pennsylvanian:

OKLAHOMA CITY — Forget Marlboro Cigarettes, there are some new cowboy killers in town.

Ooh, that’s pretty good! But I think he didn’t quite go far enough.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Forget Brokeback Mountain, the Penn wrestling team was a top for its own Cowboy grappling this weekend.

See? Now isn’t that much better?

Valenti to compete in championship match [DP]
Quakers can’t keep up [DP]