My Thoughts on McNabb returning to Philly as a Redskin

As much as I've enjoyed seeing Michael Vick's electric talents blossom in Philadelphia and seeing him reclaim the life he almost threw away, I can't shake this awful sense of foreboding as Donovan McNabb prepares for his first trip to Philly as a Redskin.

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Jeff Zelevansky/Getty ImagesEagles fans aren't afraid to share their true feelings.

In the 11 years McNabb was the franchise quarterback of thePhiladelphia Eagles, many of the fans took every opportunity to dump on his accomplishments. Now it seems predestined that McNabb will be defeated by his former team on Sunday before many fans who never fully appreciated him anyway.

Fans booed him on draft day (imagine where the Eagles would be if Philly had drafted Ricky Williams as fans wanted), and his career as an Eagle was capped by the ultimate insult: The team traded him to a hated division rival. That sent a crisp message about the franchise's sentiment. And considering that some meathead fans had the nerve to burn McNabb's jersey when he was traded -- as if he had asked to be dealt -- why wouldn't this same, often hateful fan base take one more chance to kick McNabb in the figurative shin?

Of course, if there were any justice, the final score of Sunday's game between the Redskins and Eagles would read: Washington 31, Philadelphia 0

OK, that probably won't happen. Not with Vick playing even better than he did in his superstar days in Atlanta, which gives the Eagles a pretty good shot at beating the stumbling Redskins, who have lost two straight games, including this past Sunday to the St. Louis Rams.

A victory over McNabb isn't what the Eagles and the city deserve. They deserve a beatdown after the way they jettisoned McNabb to the Redskins in the offseason, even though he capably led them to five NFC title games and a Super Bowl. They deserve McNabb lighting them up for 400 yards and three touchdowns because of how he was continually reminded of what he didn't accomplish instead of recognized for what he did.

What they never deserved was a classy quarterback who totally changed the course of their franchise.

To be clear, this isn't about the current quarterback. Coach Andy Reid didn't make a mistake in starting Vick over Kevin Kolb, who was designated as McNabb's replacement despite having proved virtually nothing. Where the organization erred was in deciding to oust McNabb.

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Rafael Suanes/US PresswireDonovan McNabb's play will be familiar Sunday at The Linc even if his uniform isn't.

Today, the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles should be not Vick but McNabb.

If the Eagles win, it would be just another way to justify the classless way McNabb was discarded. The perception created by the fans, the team and some in the media that McNabb was a perennial underachiever has nothing to do with Vick. Still, it's worth pointing out that after his breathtaking performances in wins over the woeful Lions and Jaguars, the city of Philadelphia is treating Vick like a wonder to behold.

The ultimate irony, though, is that if it weren't for McNabb's earnest desire to see Vick turn his life around, the Eagles wouldn't have Vick at all. It was McNabb who lobbied the Eagles to sign Vick. It was McNabb who repeatedly preached that Vick, who spent 21 months in federal prison for dogfighting, deserved forgiveness and another opportunity to succeed in the NFL. It was McNabb who tutored Vick once he was in Philly. I'm convinced that if it weren't for McNabb's selfless interest, Vick wouldn't look nearly as comfortable operating Philly's offense as he does right now.

And what is McNabb's reward for extending such professionalism and empathy to Vick? Being run out of town and likely booed heartily on Sunday.

McNabb was right that Vick deserved to quarterback a team again, but not even in Vick's Pro Bowl years was he ever as good a quarterback as McNabb, who has amassed 33,706 career yards and been to six Pro Bowls.

Still, this isn't about Vick, who certainly should be praised for what he has done. This is about McNabb and how he sometimes was treated as though he wasn't good enough to be the face of the Eagles franchise. This week, Reid's platitudes about what McNabb did for the franchise will ring hollow, considering he benched McNabb for Kolb against the Ravens in 2008.

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Drew Hallowell/Getty ImagesThere are critics, but plenty of Eagles fans embraced Donovan McNabb through the years.

I can't think of too many places that would have been unhappy with what McNabb established in Philly. Peyton Manning has been in Indianapolis for 12 years, and the Colts have won 10 games or more each of the past eight seasons, producing one Super Bowl win in two appearances. McNabb's record in Philly wasn't quite as good as Manning's, but I seriously doubt Manning's ability will ever be taken for granted in his NFL hometown, even if he never plays in another Super Bowl.

If only it had been that way for McNabb when he was in Philly.

When the city of conditional love revisits its history with McNabb this week, I hope fans there also remember that some of McNabb's best teams were equipped with flawed offensive talent and that Reid was a faulty playcaller and clock manager.

Already, there's a debate about how fans will respond to McNabb once he steps onto the field in Philly on Sunday. But really, there's only one way they should react: with the unconditional respect and support that often evaded him when he was there.

Green Bay Packers' Nick Collins apologizes

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers safety Nick Collins says he should have just walked away, no matter what a fan might have done or said to him after Monday night's loss at Chicago.

Collins apologized to his team and his fans on Wednesday for drawing negative attention to the Packers after he confronted a fan as he left the field and threw his mouthpiece into the stands.

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"This is a situation that I could have walked away from but, you know, heat of the moment," Collins said. "Things happen. Both sides (were) out of line."

Collins' teammates are firmly in his corner, saying fans cross the line when their taunts turn personal.

"The fans are taking it too far," wide receiver Donald Driver said. "This is a game where we go out here and we try to have fun playing it. I think the fans are taking it too far when they start talking about you, your family. They don't know your family."

Collins was walking toward the locker room when he stopped and got into a shouting match with a fan. Milwaukee's WITI-TV captured video of the incident, reporting that the fan spit on Collins and used a racial slur.

NFL and Bears officials are looking into the incident, and Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday that he supports Collins "100 percent." Collins declined to go into details Wednesday, but he didn't dispute the original report.

Was Collins surprised to hear a fan use a racial slur, even in 2010?

"You know, it's going to happen," Collins said. "I'm probably not the only guy that's been in that situation before. It happens. I'm a professional. I've got to be a bigger person and keep walking."

But teammates said they can't always be expected to ignore fans' taunts.

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"When it gets personal, (what) do you do? Your mom always teaches you, or your dad teaches you, to turn the other cheek," Driver said. "But sometimes you can't. You get frustrated, especially after you lose a game. And you react. I just think the fans need to be more respectful to what we do."

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers said fans need to put themselves in players' shoes.

"I think fans sometimes forget we're human," Rodgers said. "And then some fans think that because they're behind the rail, or gate, or stadium fence, that that gives them the right to do whatever they want. I'm not really going to talk about what did happen or did not happen. To be honest, I don't really know. But I do know that we are human first, we are people, and we have feelings. I think fans should remember that sometimes."

Offensive lineman Daryn Colledge said it sounded like the fan engaged in behavior that would have been considered way out of line even on the field.

"Obviously, when it gets to the point where somebody's being spit on or racially slandered, that's a little far," Colledge said. "We're guys in there competing at the most physical level, and I don't think that happens too much on the field. So if it's happening from fans, it's tough."

Collins said he appreciated support from McCarthy and his teammates.

"They've got my back," Collins said. "They understand the situation. They know me as a person, anybody in here knows me as a person, I'm not that type of guy. I'm a laid-back, soft-spoken guy. It's just heat of the moment."

And no, Collins wasn't sure if he hit what he was aiming for when he threw his mouthpiece, allowing that it could turn up on eBay next.

"I don't know," he joked. "It might be."

Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press

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20 THINGS MEN DONT KNOW ABOUT WOMEN

A friend of mine, a guy who used to occasionally step out on his woman and hook up with other girls, had the strangest theory about the female species.

They will never tell....

“Women don’t cheat,” he told me, when I asked if he was ever worried she was doing the same thing to him. “It’s just not in their nature.” I just laughed and took a sip of my beer. Of course, I was not at all surprised when he found out she’d been two-timing him for most of their relationship after their inevitable breakup, but he was completely shocked.

There are of course many things that men don’t know about women, mainly because we don’t want them to know, and so we try and keep them hidden really well. But during my two and a half years of interviewing countless ladies for Maxim‘s sex section, I discovered that there are many, many more things that we ladies keep hidden from men ...

1.As soon as we are alone in the house—husband leaves for the office, kids go to school, roommate goes out of town—and we have quality free time knowing no one is going to walk in on us, we masturbate. Sometimes we even just do it if you’re still in the house if that quality free time is never going to come. Usually, it’s while we’re in the bathroom.



2.A good majority of us prefer to pee outside. And in the shower. And sometimes we really just want to do it in the hot tub, but we try to not do that one out of respect for everyone else in there.


3.We pluck stray hairs from our toes, our chin, our lips, moles on the backs of our legs and our nipples. And we really, really enjoy plucking a stubborn ingrown hair. Getting that sucker out is, for some gross reason, such sweet satisfaction.


4.When we’re in love, we smell your clothes or the pillow you were sleeping on when you’re not around. If you were to catch us doing this, we’d be mortified.


5.We’ve all wished that we could be more open and casual about sex from time to time … maybe go to a swingers party, have a threesome or be a dirty stripper for a night, but with no emotional consequences.


6.Deep down we really hope that your guy friends secretly want to sleep with us, and very often we will dress for them and subtly flirt just so they will. We don’t want to bone them; we just want them to want us.


7.We are not insulted in the slightest by those catcalls from construction workers, as long as they aren’t rude or nasty. It’s kind of flattering. We also like it when you get a little jealous, to a degree. Not in an irrational or psycho way, just a bit to show you’re protective and you care.


8.We regularly check in on what our exes are up to via Facebook, emails or texts. As long as we have the technology, they will never be fully out of our lives or minds. This doesn’t mean we still love them; we’re just curious.


9.When we have girls’ nights, we do bad things that you wouldn’t approve of like spill all of your embarrassing secrets, sneak cigarettes or other substances, and drink way more than we let on. Grinding with strangers at a club can also sometimes occur.


10.When you’re not around, we fart. The longer, the louder and the stinkier, the more enjoyable.


11.If you’re really hot or the sex is good, you can be a total idiot and we’ll still date you for a while. But we’ll never marry you. Brains and kindness will always trump sexiness when it comes to marriage material.


12.A lot of times we really like to have sex on the first date to determine whether the chemistry is there and we should have another date. Or sometimes we’re just plain horny and want to get laid. We hate being judged for it.


13.We hate waxing our privates. Hate it, hate it, hate it. But, we like that when it’s cleaned up you go down on us more readily. In a perfect world, you would go down on us with regularity on naturally poofy pubes.


14.When a guy says he doesn’t want kids, it’s really a dealbreaker for almost every woman who is still of child-bearing years.


15.The majority of us don’t really care about how much money you have or make as long as you are kind and emotionally generous and work hard. Laziness and lack of motivation is inherently unsexy.


16.A lot of us are fakers … when it comes to our love of sports and being outdoorsy.


17.We love flaws on guys. A little belly, gray hairs, even a receding hairline. It reminds us that we all have body issues and that we shouldn’t be so insecure or hard on ourselves. Being human is cool. But being whiny about your paunch or constantly fussing over your gray temples is as annoying as us always asking, “Does this make me look fat?”


18.During sex, we’re usually thinking about something other than you. A gross and pervy situation, another man, being dominated … who knows, but we always, always fantasize. It doesn’t mean we’re not sexually attracted to you, we just need the weird mental images to get us off.


19.We don’t consider drunk kissing cheating, as long as we’re the ones doing the drunk kissing. We consider sex with another man cheating.


20.We cherish our independence and “me” time more than you’ll ever know. We say we miss you, but are often secretly glad you’re going so we can just totally relax and be ourselves. But we still love it when you come back.

I hope this was somewhat of an educational course for you men. Then, again, there is always more than I listed today. Be careful of all relationships in your life, because one thing that I know for sure: WOMEN ARE SOME CRAZY ASS CREATURES!!! Yep, I said creatures. Thank God for being bisexual and PRO-CHOICE.

Happy Endings Everyone!
Amile