Your Monday Morning Roundup: A COMPLETE BLACK0UT
5-1. A stomping of the Giants. BLACK0UT. Flying. Road to victory. All that and more.
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The roundup:
Absurdly misleading cover of the NY Daily News and Mike Missanelli’s explanation for Tweet.
The shutout made Trent Cole think of Jim Johnson:
“Oh, man I remember Jim would always talk about never getting a shutout. We came so close,” Cole said holding his finger and thumb close together. “But we never got it. I know it bothered him. He really wanted one.
“Now we got that goose egg and it feels good. We did it. We shut them out.”
Ruben Frank on what the win means:
The Eagles, who took the field knowing the Cowboys had won in Seattle, answered the Cowboys’ statement with one of their own. The Cowboys are 5-1, the Eagles are 5-1, and we’ve got ourselves a race. That was a statement win by the Cowboys, but the Eagles made a statement of their own later in the evening.
Sproles’ injury is reportedly a sprained MCL with just about perfect timing going into the bye week.
Lane Johnson called the hit that injured him “cheap shot.”
Connor Barwin doesn’t understand Eli: “Eli was holding the ball, and it allowed us to get a couple of extra seconds to get to him. I don’t know why he was doing that, but it really worked out for us.”
From behind the end zone, it sounded like Boyz II Men were performing underwater, but here is their halftime performance — bonus “End of the Road” points.
Chip loves being at home:
The Birds finally got that “A” from Domo that they can tell their parents about.
People are joking by voting for the Redskins here, right?
*Not counting the playoffs:
Even with the win, and an all-around game, Foles still made some interesting decisions, and now leads the league with 10 turnovers.
Cole Hamels was double-fisting Coors Lights during the tailgate:
Is this a Giants fan getting a handy in the parking lot? Email from reader Jeff:
What do you think? Later she blew massive chunks. Very classy chick.
Flyers prospect and first round draft pick Sam Morin took a puck to the face and will have surgery to repair a fractured jaw today. He’ll be out 4-5 weeks. The video:
Other Flyers injury updates:
Vincent Lecavalier will be out for two weeks with a lower-body injury.
Nicklas Grossmann is getting over a stomach virus and will miss today’s practice.
Cool.
Bill Belichick struggles with microphone. “Stupid thing.”
Vaginas are only theoretical constructs to these guys:
[UPDATE: Also pictured– N64’s wife.]
Hey, the Chargers’ team bus was egged by Raiders fans. BUT THIS DRUNK GIRL STOLE A LEG IN PHILLY.
Merrill Reese apparently called the Eagles “The Black Knights of the Schuylkill.” Hot.
The Giants stomped all over the Eagles logo before the game:
That worked out well. Brandon Boykin’s reaction to this? “27-0.” And Boykin on Jason Pierre-Paul’s bad math: “I think he can add this loss.”
Donovan McNabb erst do not language Eagles and dumb is:
Mike Trout is my sexception:
via Howard Eskin
The one positive of the Cruz thing is that the Philly fan stole a prosthetic leg narrative may be washed away and restriced to use as a crutch by pricks like La Confora:
Here’s the full transcript of Bob Costas’ halftime poem on the Dallas Cowboys. Thanks, Bob.
I honestly think Chip Kelly may be farting here.
THOSE MONGREL FANS! AREN’T THEY SENSITIVE TO THE HORROR FACED BY THE NIGERIAN ABDUCTEES?!
via John Clark
Josh Elliot lives for human interest stories:
But I agree that Cruz seems like a good dude.
YEAH, JAKE TAPPER!
Referee Clete Blakeman was screwing up the signals all night:
That’s not the sign for holding. H/T to reader Matt
John POWERS showed up to the Union game this weekend.
Podcast
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