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Karma continues for Eagles fans
This is all about karma now. Or maybe it’s Billy Penn.
How else can you explain what is happening with the Philadelphia Eagles?
The “Good Vibrations” continued yesterday in a chilled Meadowlands, where the Birds swamped the defending Super Bowl Giants to earn a date in the desert.
That will come next Sunday at 3 p.m., when the Eagles face off with the Arizona Cardinals for the right to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
Don’t look now, but the Vegas oddsmakers have installed the Eagles as 3-point favorites. I’m not sure that has ever happened, the road team being the favorite in an NFC title game.
It’s hard to believe, but here it is: The Eagles are one win away from a trip to Tampa.
And that would simply continue the karma. How so? Well, consider that Eagles fans are still licking their wounds from the last game played at Veterans Stadium. Remember? Joe Jurevicius? Ronde Barber?
The Eagles hosted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC title game. The Bucs had a reputation of folding their tent in cold weather, in fact they had never won a game when the temperature was in the 30s, or something to that effect.
So of course they brought down the curtain in the Birds’ crusty old home with one of the most painful defeats in Eagles history.
We gained a bit of revenge last fall when the Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.
Oh, by the way, that came after the builders of the new Comcast Center did their little bit of magic involving Mr. Penn. The legend has it that the city’s founder had cursed its athletic teams ever since the city fathers changed their minds and allowed buildings to be erected taller than his perch on top of City Hall. But when they capped off the new Comcast Center, now the tallest structure in the city, they stuck a miniature Billly Penn up there to top off the building.
Voila! No more curse.
First the Phillies. Then the Buccaneers eerily lost their last four games, including coughing up a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter on the last day of the season to lose to the lowly Raiders, thus opening the door for the Eagles.
The Birds then kicked it in by demolishing the Cowboys.
They are a team on a mission. And guess where they’re headed? Yes, first this weekend they have a little trip to the Arizona desert. And if they win there? The Super Bowl, which is being played where? That would be Tampa Bay. The circle is complete.
Oh, and one other thing. The halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl? That would be another Philly favorite, “The Boss.” Yes, Bruce Springsteen will perform.
Maybe he should kick off his set with “Streets of Philadelphia.”
Unbelievable.
How else can you explain what is happening with the Philadelphia Eagles?
The “Good Vibrations” continued yesterday in a chilled Meadowlands, where the Birds swamped the defending Super Bowl Giants to earn a date in the desert.
That will come next Sunday at 3 p.m., when the Eagles face off with the Arizona Cardinals for the right to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
Don’t look now, but the Vegas oddsmakers have installed the Eagles as 3-point favorites. I’m not sure that has ever happened, the road team being the favorite in an NFC title game.
It’s hard to believe, but here it is: The Eagles are one win away from a trip to Tampa.
And that would simply continue the karma. How so? Well, consider that Eagles fans are still licking their wounds from the last game played at Veterans Stadium. Remember? Joe Jurevicius? Ronde Barber?
The Eagles hosted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC title game. The Bucs had a reputation of folding their tent in cold weather, in fact they had never won a game when the temperature was in the 30s, or something to that effect.
So of course they brought down the curtain in the Birds’ crusty old home with one of the most painful defeats in Eagles history.
We gained a bit of revenge last fall when the Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.
Oh, by the way, that came after the builders of the new Comcast Center did their little bit of magic involving Mr. Penn. The legend has it that the city’s founder had cursed its athletic teams ever since the city fathers changed their minds and allowed buildings to be erected taller than his perch on top of City Hall. But when they capped off the new Comcast Center, now the tallest structure in the city, they stuck a miniature Billly Penn up there to top off the building.
Voila! No more curse.
First the Phillies. Then the Buccaneers eerily lost their last four games, including coughing up a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter on the last day of the season to lose to the lowly Raiders, thus opening the door for the Eagles.
The Birds then kicked it in by demolishing the Cowboys.
They are a team on a mission. And guess where they’re headed? Yes, first this weekend they have a little trip to the Arizona desert. And if they win there? The Super Bowl, which is being played where? That would be Tampa Bay. The circle is complete.
Oh, and one other thing. The halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl? That would be another Philly favorite, “The Boss.” Yes, Bruce Springsteen will perform.
Maybe he should kick off his set with “Streets of Philadelphia.”
Unbelievable.
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