taterskins Week - Predictions

[T_Section224]

unfortunately you probably won't have a difficult time finding them on gameday from scalpers and others trying to bail on the game.

[Justice Hog]

Okay, here's what I think.

I'm scared of the Eagles.  You never know what a team that has nothing to play for will do on the field.  4th & 12 on their own 30 yard line?  Why not go for it!  Who knows.

This Skins *SHOULD* beat the snot out of the Eagles.  The score *SHOULD* be somewhere around 42-10, but that won't happen.

Part of me is really worried that the Skins will be satisfied beating two good teams in a row (Cowboys and Giants) and over-looking the Eagles.  Another part of me realizes how great a coach Joe Gibbs is and he surely wouldn't let his team overlook the Eagles.

So, considering that....my final prediction is:

Skins:  31
Eagles: 13

[JTrotter Fan]

You give your team far too much credit and you underestimate our defense just a tad.  Okay...you are no Seattle Seahawks team.  They are capable of putting up 42 points.  Your team is about capable of putting up 28 against the Eagles.  I think you walk a little too tall and your hopes and dreams will be shattered within the next 10 days pal.  Have fun crying in your beer as your team comes to sit at home with us throughout most of January. 

[Geowhizzer]

I'll be home alone (wife and son staying with the in-laws) to watch the game in peace.  Of course, I'll be looking for another game to watch around halftime.

Skins- 27
Eaglets- 10

[methdeez]

I know you guys have to root for Philly, they are your team, it is your duty, but do you really want to see Dallas make the playoffs? Do you really want to see Keyshawn, and Bledsoe, and Roy Williams (the most overrated player in the NFL) and worst of all, BILL PARCELLS, make the playoffs??? Do you really want to hear how great a coach Bill Parcells is for another week? Even though the Cowboys have gotten more gifts at the end of games this season than any team in recent memory, including that brutal MNF game in Philly, that the Eagles obviously should have won.

You know, you make some damn good points...

[rjs246]

It is not possible for me to want anything more than I want to see the taterskins disappointed and playoffless again.

[SunMo]

i think the best situation would be for the Eagles to win and knock the taterskins out of the playoffs.  but then, as the Cowboys are flying to their 1st round playoff game, their plane crashes and they all die.  everybody wins in that scenario.

[rjs246]

i think the best situation would be for the Eagles to win and knock the taterskins out of the playoffs. but then, as the Cowboys are flying to their 1st round playoff game, their plane crashes and they all die. everybody wins in that scenario.

It is not possible for me to agree with any statement as much as I agree with this one.

[SunMo]

up top baby, yeah!

[Geowhizzer]

I know you guys have to root for Philly, they are your team, it is your duty, but do you really want to see Dallas make the playoffs? Do you really want to see Keyshawn, and Bledsoe, and Roy Williams (the most overrated player in the NFL) and worst of all, BILL PARCELLS, make the playoffs??? Do you really want to hear how great a coach Bill Parcells is for another week? Even though the Cowboys have gotten more gifts at the end of games this season than any team in recent memory, including that brutal MNF game in Philly, that the Eagles obviously should have won.

You know, you make some damn good points...

His points are interesting, but my philosophy is that if the Eagles don't make the playoffs, I really don't give a rat's behind who does.

[General_Failure]

i think the best situation would be for the Eagles to win and knock the taterskins out of the playoffs. but then, as the Cowboys are flying to their 1st round playoff game, their plane crashes and they all die. everybody wins in that scenario.

It is not possible for me to agree with any statement as much as I agree with this one.

Put your agreement boner away.

[Rome]

i think the best situation would be for the Eagles to win and knock the taterskins out of the playoffs.  but then, as the Cowboys are flying to their 1st round playoff game, their plane crashes and they all die.  everybody wins in that scenario.

Is it too late to nominate posts for "Post Of The Year?"

If not, this one gets my vote.

[archer]

unfortunately you probably won't have a difficult time finding them on gameday from scalpers and others trying to bail on the game.

Have there been any problems with scalpers selling counterfiet tickets at the Linc?

[Feva]

Nope... only counterfeit football players.

[ice grillin you]

Need a Ticket? Eagles Fans (Lots) Have a Deal for You

By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 30, 2005; B01



It must have been a game-day Sunday like the one coming up that inspired Philly native William Claude Dukenfield to remark: "I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was on a Sunday."

Like Dukenfield, the 1930s-era comedian better known as W.C. Fields, Philadelphians apparently are having a bad case of ennui. They're just not as enthusiastic about seeing the taterskins-Eagles game now that their team doesn't have a shot at the playoffs, so it looks as if they're dumping tickets.

And with taterskins fever building with their four-game winning streak, Washington fans are snatching up the castoffs.

While the taterskins will earn a playoff berth with a win, the Eagles are going nowhere, and neither are their fans, according to several independent ticket brokerage Web sites. Many have given up on a team that tumbled from Super Bowl euphoria a year ago to a tumultuous and disappointing 6-9 season going into Sunday's 4:15 p.m. game.

"Skins fans are clamoring to see Sunday's game in Philadelphia," said Sean Pate, a spokesman for StubHub, a Web site where users buy and sell tickets. Eagles fans "are making their tickets available in large numbers on StubHub.com."

In fact, he added, StubHub is selling more tickets for Sunday's taterskins game than for any other Eagles game this season.

The marketplace determines the prices, which toward the end of the week were ranging from $58 for a second-level seat to $450 on the 35-yard line. The most expensive ticket sold on StubHub through Wednesday went for $600 for a prime 50-yard-line seat.

"We are selling a lot of Eagles tickets," said Robert Stein, director of search marketing for Ticket Network Direct.

"taterskins fans are buying them," said Kenneth Dotson, chief marketing officer for TicketsNow

.com, which buys and sells tickets. "There's not a tremendous amount left."

Jason Randall, chief executive of Coast to Coast Tickets, said: "The prices that brokers are asking don't show a dramatic drop-off. Hope springs eternal, I guess."

Randall suspected that Eagles fans were getting rid of tickets, though he couldn't quantify it.

"So what would you expect?" said Lou DeMaise, manager of Chicky and Pete's, a sports bar in South Philly near the stadium. "It's just been an awful year for us here in Philadelphia. Fans that come in here gave up hope three or four weeks ago. They're talking about next year, what's going to happen with McNabb," referring to whether Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb will return to the team.

In Washington, the year's far from over. A taterskins official, who asked not to be named, said that Coach Joe Gibbs, like many NFL coaches, was superstitious and didn't want the team to announce the sale of playoff tickets before the team had qualified.

The official said there was concern among the coaching staff that announcing a sale would motivate the New York Giants, who must lose to the Oakland Raiders on Saturday night for the taterskins to get to play at home during the first round of the playoffs.

"The rumor is that the taterskins aren't sending out tickets until next week, which could mean most people won't have tickets in their hand until Wednesday or Thursday," said Jeff Greenberg of ascticket.com, a Washington area ticket brokerage. "If the game is Saturday, there's not much we can do. They could have a disaster on their hands if they have 90,000 people lined up at the will-call window on game day."

No such problem in Philly, though it's not as if a latter-day Dukenfield doesn't have Sunday choices. In addition to New Year's Day brunches and parties, or the crab claws at Chicky and Pete's, there's the traditional Mummers parade, with floats and bands and marchers making their way up Broad Street from about 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Anthony Cortese, general manager of Melrose Diner, a Philadelphia landmark near the stadium, and a self-described die-hard fan, conceded that many of his fellow Eagles fans will be at the parade -- or somewhere else other than the game. But Cortese, a season ticket holder, will be in the stands Sunday. "Sure, it's been a bad year," he said, "but come September, we're all 0-0 again."