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?)

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Go Ask Suzy, Jane, Mary And Alice

The above photo is from the Binghamton University Pipe Dream — which pretty much has a giant bong as a logo — accompanying a story about “menacing” phone calls on campus.

It just goes to show that, well, when there’s not a photo opportunity for a story, you just need to use your imagination. It helps if Commissioner Gordon is on staff, too.

Students receive menacing calls [Pipe Dream]

Blogicized: Call Me Al

• Some people in Philadelphia apparently get calls from people running Italian elections and those seeking blood. This is why I don’t have a land line. [Starting A Landslide In My Ego]

• I don’t know if Dann Cuellar’s daughter gave a statement to the police when she was arrested, but if she did, she totally enunciated words very loudly! [TinaPoPo]

• Everything you really could ever want to know about how Jimmy Rollins has improved as a hitter during the streak. Let’s keep it going tonight, Jimmy! [Balls, Sticks & Stuff]

• I get all my front-page breaking news from commenters, too — they’re extra juicy when they’re on a subject I’ve been wrong about before and I make giant leaps, &c. [MyDD]