breaking news?

So I never expected to be a blogger who actually "breaks" news or causes an internet controversy, especially because I never expect anyone to read this that I don't already know, but I could be starting internet rumors. I feel like the guy from TMZ, only I'm not a soulless douchebag.

SO:

While I was at home, at certain family member (who will be left unnamed) who works in a lot of construction in South Jersey gave me the lowdown on the Eagles locker room... it's not good. He was in charge of building a fancy new house in Voorhees for one of their key defensive players (again, I can't name names) and all the people were bugging the guy for answers.... answers to questions like, "Why do we suck?"

Apparently, the guy said that the team has completely turned on McNabb, hates him, and even outright tried to get him hurt in that ugly Giants game when they gave up 343 sacks. They haven't quit, but they've pretty much quit on him. They want him gone.

Now....

I don't know the credibility of all involved. Whenever teams do bad, rumors of star inadequacies spread rampantly. Note the Great Gay Pittsburgh Rumor of the late 90's *. The person telling me this noted how people turned on McNabb after his racial comments, which makes me suspicious. White South Jersey football fans were not so forgiving of those comments. Were they just pissed? Did they make this up to feed their anger? It's not so ridiculous as other rumors * that people have started, but you never know....

I personally think that Giants loss, which might have been the worst I have seen them play in years, was for several other reasons. They didn't have Westbrook, and that hurts. They didn't run nearly enough, even though they were doing that fairly well. They had a rookie at left tackle who looked like he didn't know what pass protection is (incidentally, he was great in college at USC and slipped in the draft only for criminal reasons).

Still..... 11 sacks? That's bad. I don't know the state of their locker room, but it looked like they didn't care. And they came back last week, but that was with Westbrook playing and against the Jets, who, no offense, Doctor, are the suckiest bunch of sucks who ever sucked. I suppose the jury is still out on this one. But if the Eagles pull a mutiny and toss McNabb aside and start playing hard for his backup (ummm... which kinda happened last year?) , well, you heard it here first. Sort of.

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*** * The Great Gay Pittsburgh Rumor - in the late 90's, when the Steelers were struggling, the hot rumor spreading around Western PA was that Kordell Stewart (who sucked then) and several former players (who had all left as free agents for other teams) were arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover cop.... a MALE undercover cop. That's right, in the middle of the Steelers sucking, allegedly all the people the fans hated the most all got into the same gay sex scandal at once, but the team covered it up. See, this is why most rumors are stupid.