PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
If you are an Eagles fan and think of Michael Strahan, your first thought is of Jon Runyan.
So when word got out this morning that Strahan had decied to retire, reporters found Runyan following the Eagles' organized team activities.
As usual, Runyan, always a straight shooter, did not disappoint.
"Going out on top, if you could write a book, that's the way you'd want to end it … I'd put him up there with Reggie White. I only played against Reggie once. He's right up there with him," Runyan said. "He'll tell you he's not the fastest guy in the world, but he's very smart. He knows how to play the game. If you make a mistake, he's going to take advantage of it. He's very good at that, being patient, waiting for his time to come."
Runyan and Strahan became friends, as has been chronicled many times, as Pro Bowl attendees several years ago. Runyan said he saw Strahan a few weeks back, when they reminisced about their rivalry for NFL Films.
"You have to have the ability to turn it on and turn it off, on and off the field," Runyan said. "You can't live like that - you can't live as a crazy man running around hitting people all the time. That's what makes it fun; you can sit down and talk to a guy like that, because you respect each other professionally, you just go about your business."
Look for more from Runyan and other Eagles on the retirement of Michael Strahan in Tuesday's Daily News.
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.
