Smoking Gun Holding Ape

I originally intended for this post to be about something else, but I'm gonna hold off on that one for now because I need to talk about the Eagles. Here's a safe statement - they sucked yesterday. They were awful on offense and they couldn't stop a 40 year-old, 500 lb running back on defense. While the run defense is scary and doesn't look like it will be fixed in my lifetime, for the rest of it I say, "so what?" Wow, they lost a game. Uh-oh. As you could imagine, the sky is falling in Philadelphia and it started right as the game ended on the local postgame show. The current governor of this state, and ex-mayor of this city, Ed Rendell (aka the most successfull Ape-Man in the history of American politics, pictured below) is one of the panelists on the postgame show and his mood was that of the typical mood in Philadelphia after an Eagles loss (either that, or he still hasn't gotten over the fact that I struck out his son about 10 years ago). In case you didn't know, the Eagles will now never be able to win another game since they lost yesterday. To top that, now the whole media will focus on what they saw Terrell Owens do during the game on the sidelines when he was only trying to get McNabb back in the game with some fiery encouragement. I can't wait to read all the articles on this non-incident over the next week until T.O. celebrates his next TD will will be the main topic of discussion for the following week. "Journalists" like this uptight white guy named Skip will blow everything out of proportion again like he did last week even though he didn't know, or decided not to report on the complete story. Let the flaming begin.

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ONE MORE THING: In case you didn't see the game, or the highlites, Steelers WR Hines Ward did a mock T.O. celebration after his first TD by flapping his arms like wings which T.O. has done this year. This was hilarious and didn't bother me at all. That feeling ended though after Hines Ward's second TD when he did the SAME arm-flapping celebration. Come on, Hines. Is that the best you could do? Are there not enough T.O. celebrations or dances that you could choose from? This was flat out pathetic. If you're going to mock a creative TD celebration artist like T.O. at least be creative. He could've done crunches, or pretended to tear a sign down, or pull out a Sharpie, or called one of his ex-QBs gay, or grabbed pom-poms, or something. I could go on forever. There were about 90 other options that he decided to pass over. Instead we got a longer version of the first one. In the words of Awesome-O, "LAME."



BABY FILES UPDATE: Tomorrow afternoon.