Philadelphia Eagles News
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
This was originally posted yesterday by Les Bowen on our Daily News' Eagles blog at www.eagletarian.com. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - If there is one day in the NFL year when we ought to be free of worrying about Donovan McNabb and the Eagles, it should be Super Bowl Sunday. Alas, such is not the case.
Colts' Freeney fights through his injury
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI - Dwight Freeney's ankle injury may or may not have been greatly exaggerated. All we know for sure after Super Bowl XLIV is that it did not greatly inhibit the Indianapolis Colts' defensive end from being a pass-rushing force in the first half, but it may have caught up with him in the final 30 minutes.
Tom Brookshier memorial service
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
The memorial service for former Eagles star and broadcaster Tom Brookshier is scheduled for today at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore.
Rich Hofmann: For Saints coach Payton, risky plays yield Super result
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Sean Payton coaches a football team that for decades personified the stubbornness of futility. He coaches in a city that in recent years has come to represent the struggle over adversity. That is what the leader of the New Orleans Saints carries with him, from training camp to
Saints pin 31-17 Super Bowl upset on Colts
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI - With completion after completion, Drew Brees was completely amazing last night in his first Super Bowl appearance. His performance, combined with a daring decision by head coach Sean Payton, allowed the New Orleans Saints to pull off a 31-17 upset of the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV at Sun Life Stadium.
Saints jolt Colts to win Super Bowl
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Nothing the Indianapolis Colts came up with confounded Drew Brees, but sitting in a big tent behind Sun Life Stadium, having just trod through the piles of glitter that descended after Brees led the New Orleans Saints to their first NFL championship, Brees struggled a bit.
Paul Domowitch: Patience of Saints pays off for defense in Super Bowl win
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams got a call yesterday morning from one of his former bosses, Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher.
Ashley Fox: Brees passes; Manning fails
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI - It was the mistake that halted all talk of legacy and supremacy for one man, and brought immortality to the other.
Tears flow as Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith elected to Hall of Fame
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Here's how you stop Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith: Put them in the Hall of Fame and watch them break down and cry.
Ads employ humor in quest for super gold
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
Television's Super Bowl commercials got off to a funny start last night on CBS, with companies like Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola going straight for chuckles.
By The Numbers
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
* With his first-quarter field goal, 42-year-old Matt Stover became the oldest player to score in a Super Bowl. * The Colts' 96-yard first-quarter touchdown drive tied for the longest scoring drive in Super Bowl history. The Bears also had a 96-yard touchdown drive in Super Bowl XX.
Sapp out of jail after arrest
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Former NFL star Warren Sapp was released from jail yesterday on $1,500 bond, a day after being arrested for allegedly choking a woman in his hotel room.
Goodell: NFL to mull ban on 3-point stance
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - No more three-point stance? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says it's possible. Concerned about concussions, Goodell said the league would keep looking for ways to make the game safer. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation" hours before the Super Bowl, he didn't rule out the idea of banning the three-point stance for linemen to reduce the ferocity of collisions at the line of scrimmage.
The city that knows how to party is just getting started
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Saints fans hugged, kissed, and spilled onto the streets last night as a citywide party erupted after their once woebegone NFL franchise defeated the Indianapolis Colts.
Tebows' ad takes light tone
Philly.com | February 08, 2010
Even the long-awaited Super Bowl ad from the conservative group Focus on the Family came with a punchline last night.
They ain't the Aints no more
Philly.com | February 07, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Peyton Manning to Reggie Wayne is money in the bank for the Indianapolis Colts.
Payton shows he plays to win
Philly.com | February 07, 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Sean Payton coaches a football team that for decades personified the stubbornness of futility. He coaches in a city that in recent years has come to represent the struggle over adversity. That is what the leader of the New Orleans Saints carries with him, from training camp to Super Bowl XLIV. It is a burden he seems to handle easily.
Ashley Fox: Brees rules NFL — and the Big Easy
Philly.com | February 07, 2010
MIAMI - It was the mistake that halted all talk of legacy and supremacy, and prompted the biggest party ever in the biggest party city ever.
Saints march past Colts in Super Bowl
Philly.com | February 07, 2010
MIAMI - With completion after completion, Drew Brees was completely amazing tonight in his first Super Bowl appearance.
Ashley Fox: Manning is a true offense maestro
Philly.com | February 07, 2010
MIAMI - He's not faking. There is such secrecy surrounding what exactly Peyton Manning does at the line of scrimmage, all that directing and barking and shouting calls that might as well be in a foreign language, that for years, one theory has been that Manning isn't doing anything, really. Misdirection. Dummy calls. Deception.
Hopkins' haymaker opinions on McNabb
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Bernard Hopkins took a loud lap around Radio Row yesterday at the media headquarters for Super Bowl XLIV.
With win, history could be kinder to Colts' Manning
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - From the Saints' end, you might have heard, the storyline is a franchise known for losing getting a chance to win it all, and a city known for being destroyed by a natural disaster getting a chance to celebrate its survival and renewal.
Goodell addresses number of NFL issues
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The labor issue wasn't the only subject NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about yesterday during his annual Super Bowl-week news conference.
Don't Trust Bill Love Big Easy, but going with Indy
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
Rarely in the history of human competition have the decisions of interested onlookers been as clear as they are for Super Bowl MMX or whatever Roman numeral this one is (actually, it is XLIV). If your pulmonary artery is still functioning and you are not from Indiana, you are rooting for the Saints. There is no choice.
Tebow's unseen ad causing super controversy
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
No one except a few insiders has seen the "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life" ad featuring football star Tim Tebow and paid for by a conservative Christian group, but it is already perhaps the most hotly debated Super Bowl commercial ever.
'We want an agreement,' Goodell says
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - DeMaurice Smith slammed a 200-m.p.h. serve into NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's end of the court Thursday afternoon when the executive director of the players' union strongly suggested that the owners would force a work stoppage with a lockout in 2011.
Colts' Freeney sits out another practice
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney did not practice yesterday, still sidelined with the ankle injury he suffered near the end of the AFC Championship Game.
NFL labor woes weigh on Goodell's mind
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A day after NFL players association chief DeMaurice Smith put the chances of a 2011 work-stoppage at 14 on a scale of 1 to 10, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he would prefer less rhetoric and more productivity in the bargaining talks.
Smith, Rice front-runners for Hall of Fame
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - With Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice all but shoo-ins for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, get ready for a little Canton Two-Step.
Local bookies rake it in on Super Bowl wagering
Philly.com | February 06, 2010
The numbers are staggering.