Top 5 Disappointments From Eagles Game (Non-football-related)

And when I say "non-football-related" I just mean that lots of plays during the game were disappointing, and I'm in no mood to cover them now. So here was everything else:

5) Going to an Eagles Party for the game: I wasn't superstitious, but I think I am now. Should have just stayed low-key and watched it a local bar like we did for the first couple playoff games...but instead we decided to show up at my friends' full-fledged Eagles party. And I'm sure that's the reason why our defense decided not to show up at the game.

4) Getting made fun of by everybody for wearing my McNabb jersey tucked into my jeans: I realize I look like a big dorky dad wearing my jersey like this, but it's a Large and if I untuck it almost goes down to my kneecaps and then I kinda look like an Eagles cheerleader who's wearing nothing but a jersey and heels in the March 2009 page of the team calendar. Except that I'm a guy, and I clearly have pants on. Whatever.

3) Bears fan sitting up front by the TV and being loud and annoying: No idea who this guy was, and thank God we weren't playing the Bears...but why were you at our party? You talked a lot, I couldn't tell if you were wearing a do-rag or not, and you were smiling way too much during the first half. Thank God you left at halftime, or this blog would be entirely about you.

2) Non-football smalltalk during extremely tense moments: It was 4th and ten, one last-ditch play for the Eagles left, when they cut to commercial for the two-minute warning...and one of my friends broke the silence by actually saying to me, "So how's comedy going?" I don't even think I moved my eyes from the screen and just said to Melissa, "Hon, can you deal with that for me?"

1) "Snow ahead" signs on the Turnpike on the ride back: We saw about eight of these on the hour ride back home, and kept wondering where the hell the snow was each time. What a tease. Kinda like when your favorite sports team gets within one win of the Super Bowl every other year, then stops playing.

And if you don't follow football, all you needed to know for this blog was that yesterday was the fifth NFC Championship Game the Eagles have played in during The Bush Administration. And it ended up being the fourth that they lost. So here's hoping for some real change. Mr. Obama, can you please stop the recession and get me a Super Bowl win too? That's all I ask. Thanks.