A Sunday Pilgrimage - Sounds Very Good!

[Ploobus]

I don't care what that whore bag says. Nobody will ever be able to convince me that T.O. is anything but a pathetic ingrate roughly on par with Randy Moss. I hope he gets run over by a bus.

Did you just call a little girl a whorebag?

Let me repeat this question

The author.

[Crabjuice]

Don't worry too much about Ploobus, guys. He has an amazing talent to stick his entire foot in his mouth. 

[General_Failure]

I can't believe he called a little girl a whorebag.

[Feva]

I don't care what that whore bag says.  Nobody will ever be able to convince me that T.O. is anything but a pathetic ingrate roughly on par with Randy Moss.  I hope he gets run over by a bus.

Somebody would actually have to care what you thought to even want to convince you of anything.  Since no one here gives a ish about what you think, feel free to slob down a meatcicle or two.

[jeffreyjpa]

Thanks for the quotes from the article, Phreak! 

I'm headed up to Buffalo later this week, sounds like a great book to pick up for the flight. I'm a big fan of Ant's writing.

[StevieLeftCollege]

phreak, thanks for those quotes!  im definitely buying it now.

about gargano.  its amazing how good of a writer he is.  hes from south philly and uses slang on the radio, but when you read his stuff, its so hard to put 2 and 2 together.

[BobbyT]

Thanks Phreak keep them coming.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I'm about 100 pages in and it is as good as advertised so far.

It started off a little slow and he uses a scattershot style - jumping around to different people and topics - but I'm enjoying it.

There's a part in there where Ike says he knew at the SB that he wouldn't be back. He explains how Andy advised him to take the ATL offer because they were going with Trot & Keith. And Ike text messages Gargano on air to tell him. Then Ike talks about when he called in to talk to them he had to hang up because he was starting to cry. Big Red said he loved Ike and hated to not bring him back. Ike talks about his personal life and how he was heading in the wrong direction and how Troy Vincent got him right.

Ike (other than Trotter) is probably my all-time favorite Eagle.

Great inside look at the team.

[StevieLeftCollege]

I feel in love with Ike when he played DE late in a game during one of his 1st years here.  There he was, a lil 225 lb, going balls out against a RT that could have outweighted him by 100lbs.


How did Troy save him?

[NGM]

Was Troy saving him in reference to Ike doing drugs?

[PhillyPhreak54]

He said he just got his head on right...mostly with the females and life in general.

Ike said in 2000 he started listening to WIP, reading the papers and watching DNL so he could hear what Eagles fans wanted in a player. He heard we liked the gritty, muddy sumbitches who do the little things and he dedicated himself to fitting into Philly.

[shorebird]

Yeah, guys like Trotter also.

[shorebird]

There should be a story about his journey from the bottom of the barrel, (Skins) to the Superbowl.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Finished the book tonight. Probably the best Eagles related book I've ever read. It was awesome.

The only two criticisms I have of the book are that at times I thought he tried too hard at times to describe things. Using obscure references to Machiavelli and other things like that. And the other thing was there were some misspelled words/typo's in there. Not a lot, but enough for me to catch. I know he's spelled Ronde Barber "Rhonde" in both of his books.

Some new things I found out by reading:

1. The Rams were about to fire Vermeil after 1998 and were interested in Reid. But they decided to keep Vermeil and won the SB. Reid had a "gut feeling" about Philly and went on that even though he thought about turning down the interview request. Things were so bad in Philly thanks to Ray Bob and the Vet/practice facilities that no one wanted to come here at all.

2. Remember the story about Reid being on a remote island not too long after the Super Bowl and a bunch of Eagles fans recognized him? Well this is what Andy said about these fans and how pumped up they got him:

"I'm so fired up from those guys that I call Donovan on the phone. I said, 'Yo, Donovan! We're going back there. We're going to Detroit! And this time, we're gonna win it!'"

3. He turned down BYU because he loves Philadelphia and feels obligated to win here and fulfill his commitment.

4. Early on in 1999 he was feeling the heat of the fans/media after the 0-3 start because he wanted to win so badly and wanted it right then and there. But he knew it was going to take time.

5. Every player interviewed said the approach Reid takes is the best one. So when people rip him for being boring and stubborn...his players respect him and love him for that. They love him because he treats them like men, respects them and is tough when need be.

6. PG, I believe you're mentioned in the book. A brief little mention about the day of the Super Bowl calling into the show. I think it was you he was talking about.

Listen...go spend the $17 on this book, guys. I loved it and I think everyone here will too.

[SunMo]

Listen...go spend the $17 on this book, guys. I loved it and I think everyone here will too.

can you just photocopy each page and mail it to me?