2017 NFL Season

As a lifelong Eagles fan, I think we have a better shot then we did against Brady in 2005. The Patriots were much better overall team in 2005 and had a much better defense. Now I still would never bet against Tom Brady as he is the GOAT, but if we can get pressure on him with our front four just like the Giants did in both of their Superbowl wins. I was born in 1972, so this town has been waiting since 1960 for a Superbowl/Championship as we are long overdue!

 

As I lifelong Eagles fan, this win was even more special because we beat two of the greatest (Brady and Belichick). I was on pins and needles as I honestly thought he would drive them down like he has done so many times. This was just our year, and I'm trying to enjoy and savor it.

 

I didn't really care who won, I'm not a fan of either team but don't dislike either team so whoever won was fine with me. As a non-Cowboys fan living in Dallas I was sort of pulling for Philly because Cowboys fans are always giving the Eagles crap over never winning a Super Bowl and I knew it would annoy them that one of their biggest rivals won it with their backup QB. But it would seem quite a few of them have tried to pretzel it into some sort of moral victory, an NFC East team won and that's somehow a victory for every team in the division or something. Cowboys fans have gone from winning Super Bowls to treating a playoff berth like the Super Bowl to finally just hopping on the bandwagon of division rivals with success. Maybe they should just get a GM.

 

Josh McDaniels is a snake.

 

The whole Parcells/Belicick Coaching Tree are a bunch of snakes. Remember Parcells left the Patriots after the Superbowl in 1997, but was still under contract for another year. He and Belicick came up with this plan that Belichick would coach the Jets for a year and Parcells would be an advisor and then step in as coach the next season. The NFL stepped in and the Jets had to pay compensation to the Patriots.

Then a few seasons later Robert Kraft wanted Belichick to coach the Patriots and Parcells didn't want him to go just out of spite, so he stepped down as Jets coach and gave Belichick the job. Belichick stiffed Parcells and stepped down as Jets coach after 1 day and took the Patriots job as they didn't talk for 15 years.

Josh McDaniels is a great Offensive Coordinator but failed big time in Denver as a Head Coach, so I wouldn't be too heartbroken.

The lucky thing is they have Foles under contract for another year, so they can trade him for a really good draft pick. And they don't have to give Wentz that bigtime contract for another 2 years, so they can pretty much take the same team into the season next year to try to repeat.

When the Eagles hired Pederson, there were fans jumping off the bridges as it was a very unpopular hire. And now Doug Pederson could be Mayor of Philly tomorrow as he is beloved by the fans. I never get caught up in the hot Coordinator because you just never know how they will be as a Head Coach. As you said we went hard after McAdoo and payed Chip Kelly a lot of money and those guys failed in the NFL. It's all a roll of the dice.

I miss Collecting Baseball, Football, Hockey, Basketball Cards! Do you remember when the market crashed in the early 90's and all of those late 80's cards that were over-produced ended up being worthless. It was a lesson in Economics that what goes up must go down!

 

It's a shame because when I collected as a kid, I didn't care or know what the values were of the cards as all I wanted to do was complete the set. I mostly collected Baseball Cards because they were the easiest to find at stores like 7-11 and Wawa. Then when I was in high school (late 80's) and got a job and had some disposable money, I started collecting like it was going to be retirement money. Then around 1991-92, the bottom just fell out of the industry and I realized I wasn't going to retire at 30 years old!

I ended up selling my whole Collection to a dealer in 2001 for about $2,000, but I sort of regret it because those cards had a lot of good memories.

 

My favorite card was the Billy Ripken 1989 Donruss error. Someone put on his bat 'F**k Face' as a joke and thousands of cards were printed before they caught the mistake. The card is a legend even today in the industry!

 

I brought it in to school one day and showed my friends and my teacher almost confiscated it! It's funny what was offensive in 1989 compared to now!