Eagles vs. Giants Will Play Sunday @ 4:30PM

[Seabiscuit36]

I hear Razorgator works best for scalping tickets.  And they're Philadelphia Eagle Approved 

[ice grillin you]

i prefer to have tt laboof handle the sale of my tickets

[Don Ho]

divisions are championships to the gold standard...anyone whos ever stared at joe banners swirly lolipop knows this

so i shouldn't spend $24.99 on a 2006 NFC East Champs cap?

almost as bad as when they were hawking the NBA Eastern Conference Champs caps after the Sixers beat the Bucks. 

I have to admit that I caved in 2000 and bought the NFC East Cap.  Got it in the mail just before kickoff against the Bucs.  May have to pop that tape into the VCR to get me jacked up for Sunday.

[Munson]

divisions are championships to the gold standard...anyone whos ever stared at joe banners swirly lolipop knows this

so i shouldn't spend $24.99 on a 2006 NFC East Champs cap?

almost as bad as when they were hawking the NBA Eastern Conference Champs caps after the Sixers beat the Bucks. 

I have to admit that I caved in 2000 and bought the NFC East Cap.  Got it in the mail just before kickoff against the Bucs.  May have to pop that tape into the VCR to get me jacked up for Sunday.

We didn't win the East in 2000....but that playoff game agains the Bucs was a thing of beauty to watch.

Unless you meant to say I bought the cap in 2001...in which case watching that game against the Bucs would make me want to projectile vomit.

[Wingspan]

divisions are championships to the gold standard...anyone whos ever stared at joe banners swirly lolipop knows this

so i shouldn't spend $24.99 on a 2006 NFC East Champs cap?

almost as bad as when they were hawking the NBA Eastern Conference Champs caps after the Sixers beat the Bucks. 

I have to admit that I caved in 2000 and bought the NFC East Cap.  Got it in the mail just before kickoff against the Bucs.  May have to pop that tape into the VCR to get me jacked up for Sunday.

We didn't win the East in 2000....but that playoff game agains the Bucs was a thing of beauty to watch.

Unless you meant to say I bought the cap in 2001...in which case watching that game against the Bucs would make me want to projectile vomit.

you're thinking of 2002.

the eagles beat the bucs in 2000 and 2001 in the playoffs, both on wildcard weekend. the 2000 season was the old 3 division alignment, so both were home eagles games.

[BigEd76]

Shockey might play

[Munson]

Yeah I just realized my typo when I came back to the computer, I meant to say 2002.

2001 was a pretty good year, they got a lot furuther then I thought they would, and I got to be a fan of a team going into the NFC Championship game and not really expecting them to win. Of course, they did a good job getting my hopes up during the game that they might pull it out.

[Munson]

Shockey might play

Considering that we start Dhani Jones at SLB.....damn it.

[SunMo]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...1p-408809c.html

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
City of brotherly shove

Thursday, January 4th, 2007



The Giants and Eagles won't be having dinner together or even exchanging text messages after one of them gets eliminated on Sunday in Philly. This bitter rivalry has been taken to a new level with vicious hits the last few years that crossed the line and ignited tempers that already had short fuses.

The hostile atmosphere for the wild-card game will add to the Giants' intensity. They will feed off the animosity Eagles fans have for them and the animosity the Giants have for the Eagles, who they know too well to like.

"It's always a physical game," Plaxico Burress said yesterday. "A lot of trash talking. Always a lot of hard hitting. We don't like each other. I noticed that my first time out there last year playing against those guys. It's one of those games that each team really gets jacked up for. Both cities don't like each other. Our fans don't like their fans and their fans don't like ours."

These Giants-Eagles games are so intense not even the placekickers and punt-ers are not safe.

In the 2004 season opener, Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter, trying to work his way back into the starting lineup, blind-sided punter Jeff Feagles and knocked him out. That infuriated the Giants. "I never saw him coming. He just laid me out," Feagles said yesterday. "I was out."

Feagles was 15 yards from the play. He suffered a mild concussion, a small cut on his cheek and a sore jaw. He said that inspired

"The Feagles Rule," with punters out of the play off-limits. Feagles said he and Trotter met up in the tunnel after the teams played later in the season at Giants Stadium. "He apologized," Feagles said. "It was an informal apology."

Asked if he ever spoke to Feagles about the hit, Trotter yesterday said, "No."

He did say, "You don't intentionally go out to hurt anybody. That was a situation where I felt he was trying to make a play."

Although it wasn't necessarily retribution, in the second game of the season this year, Eagles kicker David Akers was roughed up on the sidelines by Luke Petitgout and Brandon Jacobs. It happened after Akers lowered his head and ran into former Giants fullback Charles Way, now

their director of player development, at the end of the opening kickoff.

Akers claimed he was pushed into Way. He called Giants kicker Jay Feely four times in the days after the game to explain. He also called Way to apologize. Feely had rescued Akers after he disappeared in the land of the Giants, retrieved his helmet and sent him back to the Eagle sideline.

"I took some heat for that from my teammates," Feely said. "I was willing to take it. I told David not to do it again, though."

Petitgout insisted Akers "purposely put his head down and tried to hit one of our guys in the head with his helmet. He tried to be a punk and cheap shot somebody who is standing there with nothing on but street clothes."

Akers, Jacobs and Petitgout were each fined $5,000 by the NFL.

In the final moments of regulation that

day, Eagles defensive end Trent Cole was penalized 15yards for kicking Giants tackle Kareem McKenzie in the groin. That allowed Feely to attempt a 35-yard field goal, rather than a 50-yarder, with 51 seconds left that got the Giants into overtime after they trailed 24-7 going into the fourth quarter.

Burress shut up the Eagles fans who mooned the Giants bus on the way into the stadium by outmaneuvering Sheldon Brown for Eli Manning's 31-yard TD pass in overtime. The next day, a picture of Cole kicking McKenzie was prominently displayed in the Giants' locker room.

What will the atmosphere be like on Sunday? "Probably like hell," Antonio Pierce said.

He expects to see plenty of middle fingers "from the little kids to the old people that can't even flip them and need somebody to hold their hand up," he said. "But I love it. You don't want to go anywhere else and play."

Eli Manning was introduced to the ferocity of Giants-Eagles games in mop-up time in the opening game of his rookie year. He was crushed by Jerome McDougle, a clean shot. Manning's father, Archie, was in the stands in Philly. "I thought he was dead," Archie said. "And that his career would be over before it started. I've never seen anybody get hit that hard. I was glad he got up. I was real glad he got up."

That hit was not as damaging as the shot Eagles safety Brian Dawkins gave Giants reciever Ike Hilliard in 2002 that resulted in a separated shoulder, torn labrum and torn chest muscle for Hilliard and cost Dawkins $50,000.

The intensity of the Eagles-Giants rivarly has led to the animosity that exists between the teams, and that

was the regular season. Sunday, the stakes are higher.

[Seabiscuit36]

I had no idea that the NY press would make Philly look like Hades in august 

[Susquehanna Birder]

All this hate sounds like a lot of worried smoke to me.

[SunMo]

i didn't know you could hear smoke?

[Seabiscuit36]

Igy's smoke sounds like Mobb Deep 

[ice grillin you]

you aint a crook son

yous a shook one

[Susquehanna Birder]

i didn't know you could hear smoke?

No, you can't hear smoke. But somebody talking up a smoke screen is quite audible.