The City of Brotherly Shove

by Dave Halprin on Apr 8, 2006 2:09 AM CDT in Dallas Cowboys News

Let's get one thing out of the way, never was a city so misnamed as Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love? Hardly. Look, you can't be the City of Brotherly Love when you've booed Santa and pelted him with snowballs. Yes, it really happened in 1968. The City of Brotherly Fistfights is more like it. In fact, if any city deserves the "Brotherly Love" moniker it would be San Francisco, but that's another story.

On October 8th of this year the Dallas Cowboys and Terrell Owens will get a full dose of Philly fan fury. This has the potential to make the "Disco Sucks" riot of Chicago White Sox fame look like my grandmother's sewing circle. We're talking about a city that actually needed its own court and jail in the bowels of the stadium. I'm not kidding; it had an actual judge taking cases.

If you're looking to power up some electronic gadgets, just go to the game and scoop up all the batteries thrown onto the field. I'm thinking of buying stock in Duracell over the summer, I expect demand to surge in early October. Last year we didn't even have Terrell Owens and they pelted our team bus with eggs. This was on the same day they held mock burials of Owens' jerseys.

The fact that the game will be played at 4:15 EST means you get the one element needed to really kick the party into gear, alcohol induced stupidity. I'm not saying that Philly fans are drunks, but I've heard that Otis from Mayberry is their patron saint. You would think they would opt for the classier Dean Martin, but the next time anyone accuses the Philly fans of class will be the first.

No incident reveals their lack of class more than cheering as the injured Michael Irvin was laid out on the concrete of that hellhole they called the Vet. This was the moment when their true nature was revealed for all to see.

This October, approximately six months from today, Terrell Owens will join a long list of people who have endured the drunken scorn of the village idiots. Expect it to be an ugly afternoon, lacking anything that remotely resembles "Brotherly Love". Just ask Santa Claus.

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As I said ...

in the other thread, Steeler and Eagles fans are by far and away the most obnoxious A holes that you will ever encounter. No other teams fans are even close, well, maybe Giant fans. Anyway, PA fans love to drink and get drunk at games which I think cause a lot of the problems, but even sober they're still jerks. They hate anything and anyone not associated with their team. They're just the worst.

"They're going to leave me over here by myself and thats when I'm gonna sink my fangs into them." - Terry Glenn

by Terry on Apr 8, 2006 8:25 AM CDT reply actions

Brett Favre finally!!!!!!!

Finally made his his decision on whether he'll play this year or retire, Opps, I guess not. At his press conference today he said he hasn't made a decision, this guy is becoming more and more of a joke, he is holding the packers hostage, if I were the Packers, I'd just cut Farve and move on, the Packers have missed out on getting another QB because brett and his nonsense of not knowing what he's going to do, Another Barry Sanders if you ask me, the Packers need to move on and start to rebuild now and make the decision for Farve.

by Deke on Apr 8, 2006 8:37 AM CDT reply actions

Make a decision already

I liked Favre, he was fun to watch on the field. But this is silly, just make the call Brett.

I hope he retires, mainly because I'm tired of the media, who refuses to acknowledge the guys skills have slipped. John Madden slobbering over him whenever he announced a Favre game was so irritating I would just hit the "mute" button on my remote. Even when Favre was having a bad day, on they would go about how great he still is. I was half-way expecting him to walk on water at any moment.

Favre should've been smart and retired after the season. Green Bay is going to be rebuilding over the next few years.

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by Dave Halprin on Apr 8, 2006 11:22 AM CDT reply actions

Terry Bradshaw

slobbers all over Favre really bad too. Favre's their golden boy.

Get ready, after Favre calls it quits they will shift all that slobbering and praise to Peyton Manning. When will he win it? When will he get the monkey off his back? What a great competitor he is. MVP. Blah, blah, blah.

Before Favre it was Elway and then Young. They always have to have a quarterback to worship as a hero.

"They said they didn't want me to shine, but I do shine...because I love me some me!!" - T.O.

by Playmaker88 on Apr 8, 2006 4:39 PM CDT reply actions