Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009, 8:55 AM | 10 comments |
 

A sports void
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I have been to 25 Super Bowls and six Olympic Games. I have been to the NBA Finals and seen Michael Jordan and I have been to hockey church, the Stanley Cup Finals in the Montreal Forum. I saw Bird and Magic at the Final Four as a kid (along with those Cinderella Penn Quakers), and I saw Magic a generation later run out onto the court from the stands to celebrate with a new set of kids from Michigan State and a new national championship.

I have been to the Masters often enough to know the closing times of local restaurants. I have walked on the Old Course at St. Andrews. I have seen cricket played in Manchester, England, and I have seen the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. I have been to jai alai in Tijuana and been in Saskatchewan to watch a guy skate across Canada for a cause. I saw where they hit golf balls near the DMZ between North and South Korea and watched the Eagles play football games in London and Tokyo.

I have worked at a great place, for great people, during a great era. I have been luckier, much luckier, than most, and I know it.

But I have never been to the NFL scouting combine.

I feel cheated.
Posted by Rich Hofmann @ 8:55 AM  Permalink | 10 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:10 AM, 02/20/2009
    rich i love your work but not sure i get the point of this post - if you really wanted to go just tag along with bowen; he'd probably love the company haha
    — bl303784
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:07 AM, 02/20/2009
    I believe this would qualify as a public plea for a redeye. maybe?
    — eaglessuperfan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:11 PM, 02/20/2009
    Who needs to view the Combine? I just watch chemically enhanced machines running hard and trying to beat the clock, it was the Daytona 500 last weekend. However, after reading that top offensive lineman and possible Eagles pick; Michael Oher has an IQ of 100, I want to see if he beats Donovan's Wonderlic score of 14. I don't want to brag or "event" drop...but I've been to Wing Bowl...twice
    — Will T.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:35 PM, 02/20/2009
    Rich, I'd say there's always next year, but I'm not convinced of that at the moment.
    — Bob Ford
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:34 PM, 02/20/2009
    I think he was being sarcastic. I think to watch the combine would be torture.
    — Derek13
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:00 PM, 02/20/2009
    maybe if he picked the Phils to win the WS last year, he'd get invited, haha
    — furio
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:00 PM, 02/20/2009
    maybe if he picked the Phils to win the WS last year, he'd get invited, haha
    — furio
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:49 AM, 02/22/2009
    You guys are morons. It was a sarcastic post which I found funny, actually.
    — shayrod
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:46 AM, 02/23/2009
    What the hell Rich????????????????
    — R3
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:29 PM, 02/23/2009
    Rich, if you really want to see cricket from its highest peak, you're at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (in Australia) on Boxing Day. (Melbourne also happens to be Sav Rocca's home town.) Manchester is a football (soccer) town and watching cricket there is like watching unranked college teams play a bowl game in new mexico.
    — GHem


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About Rich Hofmann
Rich Hofmann arrived at the Daily News in 1980 for a job whose status was officially designated as "full-time, temporary." A senior at Penn at the time, he was hired to fill in on the copy desk during a staff illness. The notion of him covering the Eagles or being a columnist did not exist in anyone's imagination. It was supposed to be six weeks and out, but he never left. It is only one of the reasons why so many people have concerns about him as a potential house guest. Rich has blogged the postseasons of the Flyers and Eagles. E-mail Rich at hofmanr@phillynews.com

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