Before you misunderstand this blog post know that I feel that Philadelphia has the greatest sports fans in the world. We get a bad rap, but what I’ve seen over the years is true passion and commitment. Some of us have our faults though. A large portion of our fans do the same stupid thing every season. It is insanity to continue to do the same thing repeatedly and expect different results. A good bit of our fans never learn. They start with: “We’re going to the Super Bowl” after seeing the team play 37 preseason snaps. Some put large sums on the team in sports books meanwhile others spend money they can’t afford so they can do something Eagles related. Other so called “Eagles fan captains” pick fights with Dallas cockroaches. They laugh at a team that still pulled off a victory and then stoop to their level and throw jabs because their star wide receiver will miss eight weeks. Then the radio blowhards start blowing so much smoke up the fans and players asses that we have Forty Thousand people with heads bigger than the Zoo Balloon before the first kick off. We need to better than that. We need to let our players do the talking with the larger number on the scoreboard.  As usual, it’s the first quarter when the bubble finally bursts. That was true yesterday. Twitter and Facebook timelines are testaments to what I say now. You set yourselves up for a big fall without doing proper research. I(not the only one) posted it two days before and right before kickoff: “Remember the same style defense that beat us up last year against Seattle and Jacksonville is the one we are playing tonight”. Last nights game was the definition of a trap game. But Four quarters does not define a team. For those of you who already turned on our squad, be gone. For the others with dashed hopes and heads held low, pick your chins up. Start to be cautiously optimistic. We play Dallas this week. Division play will define this team. Proudly root our squad on and hopefully cheer them on to victory against the Cowboys. By the way, please don’t stoop to the level of cockroaches it makes us all look bad. 

Rule of thumb: Always let your opponent do all the talking. Let your team do the walking. Then just smile at them when you have achieved victory. And if your squad lost, just relish the fact you didn’t sound like an idiot or an asshole along the way.