IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
The Eagles are in Seattle Friday night, having exited via charter just as the Phillies' parade was getting ramped up. So Andy Reid's pledge to watch the festivities from his office window was not kept -- though in Reid's defense, he made that pledge back on Monday, when he thought Game 5 was going to be a one-day affair.
The Birds left L.J. Smith (and your Eagletarian) in Philly. Don't know if L.J. watched the parade, but he definitely isn't feeling great after that concussion-causing hit from Atlanta's Lawyer Milloy last Sunday. An NFL spokesman said Friday evening Milloy was not fined for the hit, which kind of makes you wonder whether the NFL just makes this stuff up as it goes along -- unpenalized hits are frequently fined these days. Milloy's hit drew a 15-yard penalty and seemed not only dangerous but completely avoidable.
Meanwhile, your intrepid Eagletarian would like to thank all the fans who greeted him en route to the parade via PATCO and the Broad Street subway, in the company of his younger son and some equally truant 10th grade pals. We watched the parade from Broad and Federal, which was a great spot, but getting back to the Eagletarian estate in South Jersey took much longer than anticipated, and when I set out again for the airport, with less time for my flight to Seattle than I wanted to allow, I hit the teeth of the traffic from the rallies.
In retrospect, had I opted to work my way over to Passyunk and then Bartrum before trying foolishly to go the more traveled routes, I probably would have been OK. As it was, the flight left the gate 5 minutes early -- which might be a first in the history of US Airways -- and after much finagling, it seems I will now depart Saturday morning. Maybe the traffic will be better by then.
Oh well. Who truly wants to leave the city of champions before he really has to?
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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