IS GETTING ITS DRAFT BOARD READY
Later today, Andy Reid, Donovan McNabb, Brian Westbrook and Brian Dawkins are scheduled for their regular Wednesday NovaCare news conferences, but in the meantime, we have this McNabb interview with the700level.com, in which McNabb further underscores the fact that he does not seem to spend a lot of his movie-going time at The Ritz.
You'll recall that on Sunday, McNabb likened his chest contusion to "when Bruce Lee got kicked in the chest by Kareem" in the 1978 movie, "Game of Death." In the 700level interview, McNabb expands on that topic and confirms what has been written in the Eagles' media guide, that his favorite movie is not "Casablanca," "The Godfather" or even "Star Wars," but "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh." Oh well, at least Dr. J is in it.
"It is my favorite movie of all time, yes," McNabb says. "You need to check it out. It’s got a lot of the NBA stars from the past. Kareem is in there, Norm Nixon, Mychal Thompson, Bob Lanier, the list goes on. It’s a movie that is pretty awesome with an interesting plot of a losing team that comes together and had tryouts and they pick all Pisces. They had an astrologist come in and tells them what (their) reads were going to be and how it's going to happen."
McNabb also gives a shout-out to Dawkins ("His passion is unbearable. His determination is something you wish everyone had") who today will be named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his play in beating the Steelers last Sunday.
When we referenced McNabb's Bruce Lee-Kareem allusion in Tuesday's Daily News, we mused about other movies McNabb might identify with. This prompted reader Peter Glaze of Glenolden to chime in.
"Perhaps Donovan will also equate his situation in 2005, to the plight of the Alan Bates character in the 1966 movie 'The King of Hearts.' " Glaze e-mailed. "In this film, which takes place during WWI, the protagonist goes to an abandoned town to disarm a bomb and is inadvertently knocked unconscious. He wakes to find the entire town inhabited and run by escapees from the local asylum. He's the only sane person in town, but nobody will listen to him."
Sounds about right to me.Anybody else have good Donovan movie analogies? (Please, no "Rocky.") If so, e-mail your Eagletarian at bowenl@phillynews.com, or just leave 'em in the comments below and we'll ferret them out. Winner gets absolutely nothing, except a mention on Philly.com's most-read blog. Maybe we should talk to the boss about having "Eagletarian" T-shirts printed up. Or coffee mugs. Those are nice. Coffee mugs with "Eagletarian" and the notation "This is what I'm really reading all day when you think I'm scrutinizing pie charts." That might work.
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.
