Eagles looking to add tight end; ASPCA on Vick
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Eagles looking to add tight end; ASPCA on Vick
Daily News staff
The Eagles' search for another tight end is contiuning in the wake of Cornelius Ingram's season-ending knee injury.
The team evaluated Tony Curtis on Friday and could sign him pending a physical, according to Jason La Canfora of the NFL Network. The Eagles have made no official announcement.
Curtis has played in 36 career games with the Cowboys and recorded 11 catches for 50 yards and three touchdowns (all three game in 2007). Hehad eight receptions for 32 yards last season with the Cowboys.
He was an undrafted free agent in 2005 and had been with Dallas his entire career until joining the Chiefs this offseason after they traded Tony Gonzalez to Atlanta. He was released by Kansas City when Amani Toomer was signed.
Behind starter Brent Celek and veteran backup Matt Schobel, the Eagles have been working in undrafted free agents Eugene Bright, a converted defensive end from Purdue, and Rob Myers, from Utah State, who joined the team late in camp.
Celek, nursing a shoulder injury, did not play against the Colts on Thursday as a precaution. Schobel started and did not have a reception. Myers had four catches for 44 yards with a long of 17.
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In other news, the ASPCA has broken its relative silence on the Michael Vick issue, releasing a statement yesterday that condemns "60 Minutes" for giving Vick a forum. The group says that Vick's PR team approached them about working with him but the APSCA turned Vick down.
Here is part of the statement released by Ed Sayres, the ASPCA president and CEO:
"Mr. Vick has indeed been given another chance to play football with the Philadelphia Eagles. It is important to state that the ASPCA is extremely disappointed that owner Jeff Lurie hired him for his team before it was clear that Mr. Vick has truly developed a sense of compassion for his victims, the animals whose lives were taken by him. The ASPCA believes in second chances -- in redemption -- but that second chance has to be earned through contrition, conversion to the cause of animal welfare and finally, through hard work. Mr. Vick has only now begun his journey toward a second chance. It will be a long and hard road for him, and while we wish him well, we also want to remind the nation that the work of ridding the nation of dog fighting is as compelling a story as one man's path to redemption. Let's not forget to focus on the animals, the crimes that are still being committed every day in the United States. What are we, as a nation, going to do about that? How are we going to express our outrage long past the first time Mr. Vick takes the field in Philadelphia?"
A-S-P-C-A, not APSCA.— Richard Saunders
I am sure the Eagles are scared of the ASPCA. they scare the heck out of me. HEE HEE!— Huge
Comment removed.- philly10 - I thought you said you were done with the Eagles? Here you go again, can't let it go, huh? Hahahahaha. People need to get over Vick, he's a football player.......all he killed were dogs. Humans are killed everyday. What's more important - a human being or a dog?— TheMan
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Actually, yes... you can take your dog in and have it put down anytime you'd like. And while I'm sure you local animal shelter wouldn't put your dog down so you could eat it, I'd like to see you find a law that makes eating dog meat illegal.— Elbarad- mosquito, you had a point until you say what Vick did is more humane than sport fishing.— P Even
- philly10,you really need to stop sniffing glue.— Tech_Triumph
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- 31 teams did not say no. Others wanted Vick and he chose the Eagles. If he didn't come to Philly, he was going somewhere else. If Andy thinks Vick can help the team, might as well take him instead of a competitor.— P Even
- Uh, GJacobs when you issue a press release seeking publicity is exactly what you are doing.— derrickwh
- In fact, in a case decided earlier this year, a PA court decided it was legal for a person to shoot their own dog. http://www.pacourts.us/OpPosting/Superior/out/e05002_08.pdf So while I'm not a genius, I think I understand this issue..— Elbarad
- Philly10, I'm gonna do the opposite of what you say to do. I'll buy the stuff in the commercials. Go take your holier than thou nonsense someplace else. You sound like a religious kook trying to brainwash everybody so you can steal all their money. In fact, that's what most of these Vick haters sound like to me. Kooks. Kooks who know not how to forgive. These people come from the same mold as the religious fruitcakes who used to burn folks alive for being "witches." Sure, there are many naive people out there drinking Philly10's bathwater, but they're kooks, too, the types that send all their to evangelist strangers who scream and holler on television while pounding a fist on the Bible.— jimqk
- y oh y didnt we just sign Tony Gonzalez last yr? what a blunder!— iloveprimerib!
