Jeremy Bloom, Philadelphia Eagle

[phattymatty]

but it would go so nice with my pink breast cancer hat.

[ice grillin you]

whats the over under on when the fans start calling for bloom to be the QB

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

whats the over under on when the fans start calling for bloom to be the QB

Easy.  It will be exactly after they run the first successful trick play with him throwing the ball.

[SidFarkus]

whats the over under on when the fans start calling for bloom to be the QB

Easy.  It will be exactly after they run the first successful trick play with him throwing the ball.

Then the taterskins will give him $30 million....

[The BIGSTUD]

I did a search for Jeremy Bloom on youtube and this came up.

I'm not even going to say anything, just see for yourself.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ikMpNAhz4&search=jeremy%20bloom

[SD_Eagle5]

I did a search for Jeremy Bloom on youtube and this came up.

I'm not even going to say anything, just see for yourself.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ikMpNAhz4&search=jeremy%20bloom

Someone should tell that fat chick that poster is not edible.

[Feva]

I did a search for Jeremy Bloom on youtube and this came up.

I'm not even going to say anything, just see for yourself.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ikMpNAhz4&search=jeremy%20bloom

Someone should tell that fat chick that poster is not edible.

I think you're underestimating her abilities.

[Diomedes]

In case anyone is wondering, that video clip shows a fat chick licking a poster of Bloom.  No football clips or anything like that.  Just pathetic internet garbage.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

And it begins:

Bloom-Mania Sweeps Philly
May 2, 2006
By CHRIS McPHERSON

A dozen interview requests. Demand for his jersey. The admiration of women everywhere.

All this for a fifth-round draft pick who hasn't played football in two years?

Well, how many fifth-round draft picks have modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, scored a VJ contract for MTV, sued the NCAA, went to the Olympics twice, won world championships as a skier and still had time to make it into the gossip columns as the love interest of Paris Hilton?

One.

Meet Jeremy Bloom.

Eagles director of merchandising Steve Strawbridge hasn't met Bloom yet, but he already has been impacted by his selection. Moments after Bloom became the 147th overall pick of the 2006 NFL Draft, Strawbridge's cell phone began to ring.

"My phone rang the most when he was picked and everyone asked will we have his jersey," Strawbridge said.

So, will the Eagles have it?

"We can guarantee that we're going to carry his jersey," he said. "Brodrick Bunkley and Winston Justice (the Eagles' first and second-round picks) will help this team tremendously, but we will sell more Bloom jerseys. He's very popular with the women and he has local ties (Larry, his father, went to Lower Merion High School and he still has family in the suburban Philadelphia area)."

Bloom's jersey will not be available until he signs his contract and is assigned a number, but Reebok, the official outfitter of the NFL, thinks Bloom's jersey could be the team's top seller this season.

"We anticipate Eagles fans, especially female fans, making Bloom's jersey a top-seller among the team's jerseys this year," said Eddie White, vice president of team properties for Reebok. "He's a dynamic player with a great personality and story, which will make him a standout player from a fan apparel production standpoint."

At Chickie's and Pete's sports bar in South Philadelphia, you can always find someone to chat about the Eagles with. Now, with the addition of Bloom, you will find more female fans joining in the conversation. Beth, a 22-year-old hostess, has a simple message for Bloom's admirers.

"He's my new boyfriend," she said. "When I found out who he was, I was like 'He's really hot.' I've told everyone that he's mine. He has to come into the restaurant and meet me when he gets to town."

Beth never even heard of Bloom until her mother, Betty, said to check out his picture on the Eagles' website because he looked like he was 'son-in-law material.'

Eagles director of media relations Derek Boyko doesn't have to deal with Bloom's marriage proposals, but he does have to sort through the number of media outlets looking to do an interview with the new Eagle. Boyko said that a draft pick hasn't received this kind of attention since Donovan McNabb in 1999. There were 62 draft picks in-between McNabb and Bloom.

"We've dealt with high-profile guys before, but he's high-profile for a different reason. We realize that," Boyko said. "It's exciting in one regard that he is getting a lot of attention because he is a unique story, but his priority and our priority as a team is that he needs to do whatever it takes to become the best football player he can. He realizes that and he's totally on board with that."

See that's just it. Bloom wants to be just another football player. He doesn't want to draw the ire of teammates and coaches. The Eagles believe that Bloom can well, bloom, into something special in the return game this season. Special teams coordinator John Harbaugh isn't concerned that Bloom has been out of football for two years.

"One thing about him is he's highly, highly motivated," said Harbaugh. "He pays a lot of attention to detail. Even though he was out of football for two years, I think he can make it up real quick. He's going to be right in the mix in our return game and our coverage units as well."

If Bloom wasn't special, it might be easy to think of him as another football player. He was named to the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team at age 15 ...15! During his senior year at Loveland (Co.) High School, he helped lead the team to the state title.

He signed a letter of intent to play at the University of Colorado, but put off college football for a year to pursue his dream of competing in the Olympics. He finished ninth in Salt Lake City, but he became the youngest World Cup freestyle moguls champion ever that year.

Bloom still wanted to play college football, so he returned to the University of Colorado in 2002 where he made an instant impact. The first time he touched the ball, he returned a punt 75 yards for a touchdown. EI have nothing to contribute.    (Article had the words E N O U G H  S A I D typed.)

After the football season, Bloom would return to the World Cup circuit. To remain competitive, Bloom needed money to pay trainers, physical therapists, etc. The only way to earn this money was through endorsements. The NCAA doesn't allow athletes to earn money for playing sports. Bloom argued it was for another sport, stating that he wasn't getting paid to play football and wasn't skiing for a college team. The NCAA declared him ineligible. Bloom sued the NCAA and lost, but wrote a brilliant commentary on the ordeal for The Sporting News.

Bloom won another World Cup title and a gold medal in the World Championships. He went to the Olympics a second time this past February and finished sixth.

Now, Bloom wants to be a football player. Just that. He wants to be another fifth-round draft pick who is trying to make the final 53-man roster. That journey will begin in less than two weeks at the team's first mini-camp.

Meh. I'm glad that some people have something to talk about now besides the whole T.O/McNabb thing. Thank god. 

[ice grillin you]

he is the most beloved eagle in philly...RIGHT NOW

[MURP]

sadly, one fumble is all it will take. 

[SD_Eagle5]

Link

NEW YORK -- The only decent skiing anywhere close will be a 90-minute drive away in the Poconos -- and decent may be debatable -- but I still think Jeremy Bloom stuck his landing Sunday when he became nascent property of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Bloom, the former Olympic skier and University of Colorado receiver and special teams standout, is now nicely set up for the biggest return of his football career: Making the NFL after a two-year absence from the playing field.

The Eagles took Bloom in the fifth round, making him the 147th overall pick, which is about where he was projected to go on Day 2 of the draft. He'll instantly upgrade Philadelphia's up-in-the-air return game, and there are few teams where Bloom would have a better shot at eventually seeing some playing time as a No. 3 receiver.

"It's a tremendous blessing to be drafted in the fifth round and more importantly than the fifth round, to a team that I think is a perfect fit for me,'' Bloom said. "I don't think there's a better fit for me than Philadelphia. It's a winning environment and they're going to be a playoff team. And they have a coach in (special teams coordinator) John Harbaugh that's one of the best. I'm looking forward to working with him.''

The Eagles last season had a return game by committee, with four different players returning at least two punts, and three different kick returners with at least 10 attempts. Bloom should put an end to those kind of statistics. In his two seasons at Colorado, the speedster was a human highlight reel, scoring on plays of 75 yards or more five times, including four return touchdowns.

The 5-foot-9 Bloom still needs to bulk up to about 185 pounds to withstand the pounding he'll get in the NFL (he's about 175 today). But since competing in the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in mid-February, he has focused entirely on football training, starting with the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.

"I feel comfortable playing football now,'' Bloom said. "I feel like I've been able to transition between those two sports very easily. Obviously, it's a much bigger challenge at the NFL level, and I think the transition will be steeper.''

Steeper, but not too steep for the elusive Bloom. Philly's going to love him. He'll be a modern-day Vince Papale, the special teams dynamo who made D Vermeil's first Eagles team in 1976 as an every-man walk-on out of the ranks of semi-pro ball.

Bloom and the Eagles are a superb match. With skiing now in his past, Bloom's career will be headed anywhere but downhill.

[SunMo]

it's been 3 days and i'm close to being sick of this guy

[ice grillin you]

join the club...and its only going to get worse a lot worse....i was sick when they picked him as i knew this would happen...i hope hes really really good...hes gonna have to be for me to put up with this crap....wait till theres an influx of mtv teenie bopper girls going to eagles game in the near future...then theres gonna be the great white hope faithful who will revere this cat to unheard of levels...

[SunMo]

he's Kyle Korver in shoulder pads