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]
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Eagles Fans Agree: Eagles Are Awesome!

Know what the best part of the local sports team doing well is? Well, right, it’s that if you’re a fan of that local sports team, you feel awesome. (I have no idea why, but things just work that way, okay?)

Somewhere down the list of “good things about local sports team doing well” is that the local media ends up quoting pretty much every Eagles fan it wants to. Take this story about a morning rally in the concourse near Suburban Station. From it, we get these excellent analyses of the Eagles’ chances in Sunday’s NFC Championship:

• “It ain’t nothing but a Super Bowl, baby! No ifs, ands, or buts, or maybe!” (This was, as you may have guessed, Monty Gee, who “showed up after hearing media reports announcing the mini-rally.” That is by far my favorite part of the article.)
• “I fly high with the Eagles! I fry with the Eagles! I bleed green!”
• “My son called all the way from France spelling out Eagles.”
• “I’ll do anything for the Eagles.”
• “It’s in the stars! It’s in the cards!”
• “I’m very excited.”
• “I think this is the year.”

In conclusion? Yes, Eagles fans are excited about their team’s success.

Fans aflutter this morning over Eagles win [Inquirer]
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