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Posted: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 9:07 AM |

McNabb's magic hoagie inspires lucky Akers steak

Dan Gross

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Thankfully Donovan McNabb picked up his regular chicken-cheesesteak hoagie from Talk of the Town (3020 S. Broad) Saturday afternoon before the Iggles rolled up to East Rutherford to dwarf the Giants Sunday. We told you last week how the Birds were victorious several times on the road when D-Mac stopped into the steak shop for his last Philly meal before leaving. After our report, B101's Morning Show with Tiffany and Michael had kicker David Akers on-air Friday, and he said that he would try a sandwich there. He did. The shop delivered a steak with provolone to Akers before the team departed Saturday. Akers, who previously had only 50 percent field-goal accuracy at Giants Stadium, went a perfect three-for-three on Sunday.

In other Iggles news, Fox 29 received a handful of e-mails and phone calls from what a station spokeswoman calls Philadelphia's "famously vocal fans," regarding the technical error that caused meteorologist John Bolaris to appear on local television screens for 10 seconds with just under 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter of Sunday's game, followed by 2 seconds of a Verizon commercial.

Posted by Dan Gross @ 9:07 AM Permalink | 12 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:01 PM, 01/13/2009

He looked somewhat orange. Perhaps hanging out with the O.G. too much?

— Citizen Rorshach

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:47 PM, 01/13/2009

dan

— Serge_Matthews

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:58 PM, 01/13/2009

One more reason to hate Bolaris.

— jasper0278

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:41 PM, 01/13/2009

Man! I live in florida and and my biggest wish is for the Eagles to come to Tampa and bring me a real authentic CHEESE STEAK.

— fla.eagle

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:58 PM, 01/13/2009

Dan, I see you have been linked to MSN and Foxsports about this Cheesesteak story. Congratulations. Put that in your resume.

— Jack Daniels on the rocks

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:15 PM, 01/13/2009

Talk of the town serves slop but at least the meat is not the raw hide served at Pat's and Gino's

— jockojohnson

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