MUST BE DREAMING: TEMPLE IS 9-2?
Terrell Owens was looking for someone to play Santa Claus at his Catch-A-Dream Foundation 81 Family Fun Day this holiday season. Owens put out the call via Twitter -- and then he had an idea.
Owens then joked: "I'm thinking of asking Coach Reid 2 play my santa claus, my fmr coach of the eagles! He seems 2 b a logical choice, gotta check his sked!..."
No word on whether Big Red can make it.
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The Eagles will have some shuffling to do on the defensive line as well as at linebacker Sunday.
Defensive end Victor Abiamiri is listed as questionable, though Abiamiri probably isn’t going to dress ahead of productive Jason Babin.
Abiamiri’s status might hinge on how comfortable the coaches would be sitting, say defensive tackle Trevor Laws, figuring Abiamiri can play inside in passing situations.
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Kevin Curtis was seen in the NovaCare Complex weight room Friday. Curtis had been in Utah following knee surgery. The Eagles do not let injured players speak to the media.
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Chargers coach Norv Turner, on Shawne Merriman, who has missed the last two days of practice with a sore foot: "I think he's all right. I think he's just a little bit sore, and it's probably good for him to not 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.
