This morning I find myself consumed with two big stories we are covering.

First, if it’s the Friday before Super Bowl, that can mean only one thing. No, not that the Eagles are not playing in it again this year.

It’s time for Wing Bowl.

There are some things that just scream “Philadelphia.” The Mummers Parade. The Art Museum steps. Soft Pretzels. Cheesesteaks.

And Wing Bowl.

This pre-Super Bowl blast of fat guys wolfing down chicken wings while surrounded by almost naked women draws more than 20,000 people into the Wachovia Center.

The Sixers should be that lucky.

On the other hand, and on a lot more serious note, there is the situation involving St. Joseph’s School in Collingdale.

It looks like the archdiocese is planning to recommend closing the school, much like it has with other parochial schools in eastern Delaware County, at the end of the current school year.

But not if St. Joe’s parishioners have anything to do with it. They are not even a little bit happy about the move to close their school. And they’re not planning to stand by quietly while a treasured institution is shuttered.

Instead, they’re planning to protest the move just about everywhere they can.

I guess you could call it a wing and a prayer. Or, in the case of St.
Joe’s a wing and no prayer.