Sometimes politicians make mistakes. During his run for president, John Kerry tried to order a Pat’s cheesesteak with Swiss. He may as well have asked for a knife and a fork to go with it - then jammed one of the utensils into the campaign’s jugular. It would have been less painful than the abuse he took in Philly. Gov. Rendell’s gaffe was bigger. In an anti-tea party interview that somehow veered off and touched on Donovan McNabb’s trade to Washington, Rendell told Politico.com that next season he’ll “still root for the Eagles, but I’m going to root for the Redskins in the playoffs because they’re going to be in it and we’re not.” A message left for Rendell at his office was not returned. …
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Rendell for Redskins? Unpardonable
HAVE SOME fun. That’s all John Brenkus wants you to do with the quarterback analysis he presents as part of his latest “Sport Science” segment on ESPN tonight. Have some fun with it, use it as pregame trivia and in-game filler. Test your friends. Test your memory with it. But please . . . don’t use it as further evidence that Donovan McNabb could never win a Super Bowl. Even if that’s what his offbeat science suggests. “I’m not saying trade McNabb,” said the host of the three-time Emmy-award-winning show. “Look, John Elway won the Super Bowl and he was 38. He was the oldest ever. “But he was the exception to the rule.” Well, one of the rules anyway. Elway’s jaw, height, weight and home …
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Please don’t use this criteria in trade McNabb campaign
State officials are “in discussions” with both the Eagles and the Steelers about the possibility of partnering on an instant ticket game this fall, Pennsylavnia Lottery spokeswoman Stephanie Weyant said yesterday.NFL owners voted earlier this week to allow teams to enter agreements with state lotteries in which teams charge licensing fees so lotteries can use team names and logos on tickets.The New England Patriots announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement for an instant ticket game with the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission to begin before the season. It’s believed they are the first NFL team to take advantage of the new league rule.Weyant said the hope is a new NFL …
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Pennsylvania eyes Eagles and Steelers for instant lottery game
Joseph “Chubby” Imburgia, of Claymont, has been a football official in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania for 46 years. This fall, Imburgia will work his 18th season as an official on the chain crew for Eagles home games. Imburgia was hired by former Eagles president Harry Gamble in 1992. When the TV cameras flash to the sideline and the chain crew is visible, the man holding the down-marker pole is often Imburgia. Imburgia, 77, retired as a high school field official in 1989. He started officiating in 1953. Imburgia stills works Delaware high school football games in Wilmington as the official timekeeper in the press box. During his scholastic career he has officiated games in …
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A view from the sidelines with ‘Chubby’
Daphne McCoy’s hindsight tells her that one of the worst things that ever happened to her 20-year-old son might have been for the best.She believes that the injury that cost McCoy most of his senior season at Harrisburg’s Bishop McDevitt High eventually led to a life lesson that landed him in the NFL. He will be at the NovaCare Complex today for his first practice with the Eagles.LeSean does not remember his shattered right ankle quite so fondly.”I try not to remember it,” McCoy said yesterday, five days after the Eagles made the Pittsburgh running back a second-round pick in the NFL draft. “I was just down on myself, going from being successful to getting hurt.”McCoy was on pace to break …
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