Your Monday Morning Roundup: Not Us Edition
In a world where Eli Manning is a two-time Super Bowl champion…
This sucks. There’s perhaps no better way to sum up our existence than by looking at the above screenshot from Philly.com– Giants win Super Bowl (again) and our papers are still pimping out extension coverage of Wing Bowl, the local stripper-laden food eating event that has a shelf life of exactly one day, no more.
It’s always sunny here.
Remember the time last year in which we celebrated Cliff Lee choosing the Phillies, the Eagles comeback against the Giants, and the Flyers beating the Rangers all in the span of one week? Or how about when we laughed at New Yorkers when the Eagles snagged Steve Smith? Well, between the Giants winning the Super Bowl and the Rangers – again – waxing the Flyers this weekend, the joke is very much on us now.
There’s something maddening about watching our big brothers from New York celebrate success– that much you know. But when the mere presence of the Giants in the playoffs could have been avoided by the Eagles Dream Team simply being slightly above average this season… well, that makes things harder to swallow.
If there’s one reality to take some comfort in, it’s the fact that in a little over four months, we’ve gotten to watch our New Englander friends suffer in a very Philadelphia way– the Red Sox’ season ended in horrific fashion and the Patriots again lost to the underdog in the Super Bowl. Of course, their suffering bookends a Bruins trip to the White House…
So get comfortable, folks, and bite that pillow just a little bit harder, because the next few days are going to hurt. But know this: pitchers and catchers report in 13 days.
Let’s hit it.
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The roundup:
– The Flyers lost to the Rangers, in case you were unawares. We have full game highlights, notes and other Philly sports news from the weekend over on BuzzOnBroadDOTCOM.
– This won’t help:
– On Saturday, in other loss, Brayden Schenn got popped by Ilya Kovulchuk. Slow-mo video here.
– The Inquirer and Daily News chaos is just beginning. The papers are up for sale again, and a rag-tag made up of The Gov, Ed Snider and others are interested in buying.
– I got to hang backstage with Kobayashi on Friday and watch as Bernie Parent and Tony Luke hugged and air boxed our Japanese friend. Creepy video here.
– Boston Globe columnist Eric Wilbur wrote a really sad, somewhat pathetic hit piece on Tom Brady. That’s kind of fun.
- SportsWeek wrote an article about how much Hunter Pence likes to eat, and dropped in other tidbits about the right fielder that blogs (this one) have been all over since the day he was traded here. Crack reporting by our papers of record.
– A Twitter roundup of Philly athlete reactions to the Super Bowl.
– Here’s the full list of CSN’s delightfully entertaining top 20 Philly Villains.
– A guy won 50,000 on a prop bet that the first score of the Super Bowl would be a safety.
– And here’s the full GoDaddy.com commercial with Danica Patrick and the Pussycat Dolls.
