IS LAMENTING OVER THE LATISSIMUS
UPDATING: A league source said this afternoon that the Eagles will not be playing their scheduled Buffalo game in Toronto, as was reported by The Fan 590 radio station today.
So you can stop reading the post now, or continue for historical context. Also, feel free to feel sorry for Philadelphia players, coaches and sports writers who thought they'd dodged a trip to the dreariest town in the NFL, but hadn't.
Oh, well, guess they probably still have bars on Allen Street where we can drown our sorrows. Perhaps the hockley scribes can advise?
EARLIER: The (highly theoretical) NFL schedule is supposed to be released at 7 p.m., but little bits and pieces are starting to trickle in. One of those, according to the Fan 590 radio station in Toronto, is that the Eagles' scheduled game in Buffalo this season will be played in Toronto instead.
If you only plan to watch from home this November -- the game apparently will be played either the 13th or the 20th --sending the Birds to Buffalo vs. Toronto probably doesn't mean much. For those of us acheduled to attend, though, it means a buncha stuff. One, no snow on the field, since the Bills host their Toronto games at the SkyDome, or whatever they're calling it now. Two, we won't have to set our watches for 1955. Three, we will need to make sure our passports are in order. (Toronto is in something the people there like to call "Ontario, Canada," which looks like Ohio but fancies itself a different country with laws and borders and donut shops named after famous dead hockey players.)
Stay tuned for the rest of the schedule later.
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
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Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
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