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One more thing to prove for Eagles
Eagles fans are famous for sporting green.
Gang Green.
Believe in Green.
Big Green Machine.
You’re not really an Eagles fan unless you’re done up head to toe in green, whether it be an official jersey, a painted face, or even a green wig.
But what do you do if you’re an Arizona Cardinal? Well, they’ve had people doubting them all year. No one expected them to fly east last week and whip the powerful Carolina Panthers.
Now the team is pushing their underdog role. When Cardinals’ team members returned to practice this week, they found red T-shirts tucked into their lockers with a simple saying emblazoned on them: “Prove It.”
It’s the classic Us vs. Them strategy. Put the wagons in a circle.
There is a danger in all this for the Eagles. They find themselves in a position that no NFC team has been in, a road favorite in the NFC Championship Game.
The truth is, the pressure in this game is all on the Eagles. This despite the fact that many people think the Birds are now playing “with house money.” Yes, no one expected the Eagles to make the playoffs. Then the stars aligned for them to get in, and they promptly kicked the door down.
The belief is that now everything else is gravy. That may have been true at one time. But that changed once the Cardinals beat the Panthers.
The truth is the Eagles should win this game. The people who set the line in Vegas are not dummies. In fact, they are uncanny in how often they get it exactly right. The Eagles are three-point road favorites.
The problem for the Birds is not to get too confident, not to put too much stock in the Thanksgiving game in which they demolished the Cards, 48-20.
The Eagles will say all the right things this week. What they are not saying is that nagging feeling in the stomach of their fans.
Win, and the Eagles will be the toast of the town, setting off a two-week orgy of anticipation leading up to the Super Bowl.
Lose out there in the desert, and Eagles fans will continue their 48-year journey in a desert of their own, a scorched earth that has not seen the paradise of a championship.
It’s not a pretty sight.
Gang Green vs. Prove It.
Actually, it might be the Eagles who still have one more thing to prove to their fans.
Gang Green.
Believe in Green.
Big Green Machine.
You’re not really an Eagles fan unless you’re done up head to toe in green, whether it be an official jersey, a painted face, or even a green wig.
But what do you do if you’re an Arizona Cardinal? Well, they’ve had people doubting them all year. No one expected them to fly east last week and whip the powerful Carolina Panthers.
Now the team is pushing their underdog role. When Cardinals’ team members returned to practice this week, they found red T-shirts tucked into their lockers with a simple saying emblazoned on them: “Prove It.”
It’s the classic Us vs. Them strategy. Put the wagons in a circle.
There is a danger in all this for the Eagles. They find themselves in a position that no NFC team has been in, a road favorite in the NFC Championship Game.
The truth is, the pressure in this game is all on the Eagles. This despite the fact that many people think the Birds are now playing “with house money.” Yes, no one expected the Eagles to make the playoffs. Then the stars aligned for them to get in, and they promptly kicked the door down.
The belief is that now everything else is gravy. That may have been true at one time. But that changed once the Cardinals beat the Panthers.
The truth is the Eagles should win this game. The people who set the line in Vegas are not dummies. In fact, they are uncanny in how often they get it exactly right. The Eagles are three-point road favorites.
The problem for the Birds is not to get too confident, not to put too much stock in the Thanksgiving game in which they demolished the Cards, 48-20.
The Eagles will say all the right things this week. What they are not saying is that nagging feeling in the stomach of their fans.
Win, and the Eagles will be the toast of the town, setting off a two-week orgy of anticipation leading up to the Super Bowl.
Lose out there in the desert, and Eagles fans will continue their 48-year journey in a desert of their own, a scorched earth that has not seen the paradise of a championship.
It’s not a pretty sight.
Gang Green vs. Prove It.
Actually, it might be the Eagles who still have one more thing to prove to their fans.
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