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Eagles training camp is less than 3 weeks away. The regular-season is 9 weeks and 3 days away. It’s Sept. 13 at Carolina at 1 p.m.
By the 10th game, when the Eagles are at the Bears, Eagles fans likely will know where there team stands in the NFC East race and playoffs chase. It likely will be a pivotal game as the Eagles’ playoffs hopes unfold.
It will be a huge game for Chicago native Donovan McNabb.
McNabb will oppose new Bears quarterback Jay Cutler in the Nov. 22 game at Soldier Field. Cutler came to Chicago from the Denver Broncos in the offseason.
And according to the Chicago Tribune, the McNabb family can't wait.
“Both sides are really going to have a great time,” Sam McNabb, Donovan’s father, said to the Tribune. “It’s going to be an opportunity to see two good teams go at it and entertain the people probably more than they anticipated."
Sam McNabb, who lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife, Wilma, will host his fifth annual football minicamp July 17 and 18 at Mt. Carmel High for high school juniors and seniors, according to the Tribune. Donovan McNabb played at Mt. Carmel before moving onto Syracuse.
"I am a pretty avid Bears fan, up until the time they play the Eagles," Sam McNabb told the Tribune. "That's when I have to switch my allegiance and go with Philadelphia."
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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