This post has nothing to do with the quality of play or the outcome of the game yesterday. Just wanted to say that, in a way, it feels like that was the 1st real Eagles game I’ve watched in 10 years. It kind of hurts that they took that color away from us, and I never realized how much it bugged me until I saw them run out of the tunnel yesterday. The hairs stood up on my arms. I realize that a lot of the young guys are more used to “midnight green” than Kelly, but there is, and only ever has been, 1 color for the Philadelphia Eagles. The color my grandfather knew, the color my father knew, and the color I hope they’ll decide to bring back for good. God I missed those birds- and man it was good to see them again.
To continue the birds discussion from yesterday – The declarations of “we’re gonna be awesome” or “this will end badly” are both kindof pointless. None of us really has any idea what’s going to happen this season. One thing that’s unarguable is that it’ll be interesting to see all these new players give it a shot.
We, for one, can’t wait. It’s your choice to look forward to that, or to start whining about the team before they’ve even played a down. And if you choose the latter, thank god we don’t have to sit down to dinner with you every night. Must be brutal.
As for “Great White Hope” story – who cares if Kolb is white? We don’t care that Kolb is white or DeSean is black any more than we care that Reno Mahe is polynesian. Reno Mahe sucked, that’s all we cared about. People hope Kolb will be good because they want the Eagles to be good. People say he’s gonna suck because somebody pissed in their Cheerios this morning.
As for “slim chances that he’ll be Aaron Rodgers” & “no coach has drafted 2 franchise QBs” – both these things are statistically true. But pulling out those stats is like pointing out “the Phillies are historically 122-230 against the Diamondbacks in the month of July” or whatever… does that have anything to do with what happens in the game tonight? Do you honestly feel like the Eagles have less of a chance of beating a team on a particular Monday night just because they have historically lost to that team on Monday nights?
Wait and see, hope for the best- that’s what we say… There are certainly as many positive question marks on this team as there are negative ones. If the chips all fall in the right way, we could be awesome. If they all fall off the table, we could be terrible.
For now, this sums up our philosophy on the 2010 Philadelphia Eagles:
Small un-Philadelphia-related sports comment (which is unusual around here, I know)… I’m really not much of a cynic, but if you don’t think ALL professional cyclists are doing some kind of drugs, you’re foolin’ yourself. Landis, Armstrong, etc. – there literally isn’t one guy on that tour who’s not doping. It’s been so weird to hear commentators say things like “Well, Landis just isn’t credible, so why should we believe him?” This is like the Macguire thing, people just choosing to keep the yellow jersey pulled over their eyes. Then five years later everyone’s like “Oh yeah, obviously.” Guess what? Obviously right now.
