THINKS THE EAGLES STOLE ONE
Eagles special teams ace Tank Daniels is using part of his time off until training camp to hld a football camp in the tiny town of Holland, Texas.
This is the second year of the camp and it was moved to Holland this year at the urging of his Harding College (Ark.) teammate and current Holland assistant coach Rae Holder.
“I want to come back to a small town, because I’m from a small town,” Daniels told the Temple Daily Telegram. “I want to show these kids, ‘I’m just like you. Anything you want you have to work real hard for. NFL players, NBA players, they are just like you. They just worked hard at what they wanted to do. If you want to accomplish that you have to work hard to accomplish it. It’s not above you.’”
Daniels will be assisted by Giants wide receiver Domenik Hixon and offensive tackle Na’Shan Goddard.
Daniels was a member of the Giants Super Bowl team before returning to the Eagles. He is hoping for a bigger role at linebacker this season with the Birds.
“I’ve been a Super Bowl champion and to know guys that I look up to and I admire like Brian Dawkins or Jeremiah Trotter or Donovan McNabb, to look at the greats like Dan Marino, and to think I’m a part of something that they’ve never been a part of and not had a chance to feel that joy and excitement to be a champion, that’s definitely one of my greatest accomplishments,” he said.
“But I am by no means satisfied. When you win one - I see why guys want another and another - because it’s not good enough, and that greed starts to set in you want the feeling the rest of your career. I just want to continue to better myself and my career, earn a starting job, to better myself and my team.”
Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
