Going FJM on Mr. Ian O'Connor of foxsports.com

McNabb shows what toughness, resolve can do

I first saw this article thanks to the 700level.com, where Enrico so wonderfully points out some of the major flaws. To quote Enrico, "!@#$#%$#!@#&*@#!$ WHAT?!? @!#@#$@##$!@@#@." As an ode to Fire Joe Morgan and now Big Daddy Drew over at KSK I thought I take a lot at some specific pieces of this article. Here you go:

He has spilled the blood, sweat and tears of a thousand Big 5 players at the Palestra.
Don't forget puke, and also not sure when I've seen him cry (McNabb is not T.O.). Why compare McNabb, the most important player on probably the city's most followed team, to college players. Sure we love the Big 5, but that's college basketball, not the NFL, expectations are a little different. Plus, you are from New York, I doubt you've ever seen a great Big 5 game.


Philadelphia is famous for booing Santa?
Philadelphia is famous for many inappropriate actions. Booing Santa should not be one of them. Also, you missed the better part about Philadelphians throwing snowballs at Santa. Everyone from Philly knows the story and its not that outlandish. Even the guy dressed as Santa that day I think has said he probably would have booed and thrown snowballs at Santa at that game.

I told him that grouping Philadelphia with Boston and New York was like throwing Genghis Khan into the same cell with two guys busted for jaywalking.
In comparison, Philadelphians are like warlords for booing their players when they perform poorly and New York sportswriters are like jaywalkers when they totally crucify every single action of the New York sports figures (can we say A-Rod's personal life).

McNabb still has a chance to go down as the enduring Philly story of 2008.
Now there isn't even an ounce of truth to that statement. For one thing, 2008 is over, he could be the biggest story of 2009. Did you even watch the World Series? Sure the national ratings were horrible, but not here in Philly. Perhaps you caught any of the coverage of the parade? Yea, I'm pretty sure 10 years down the road 2008 will be the year of the Phillies.

In fact, Philadelphia fields the only teams in sports that try to score early to take their own fans out of the game.
I'm not sure I actually understand this sentence. Philadelphia teams don't try to score first because scoring points is how you win games?

But nobody's had more line drives smacked at him than McNabb, whose 10 years in Philly are the equivalent of 20 anywhere else.
So McNabb has been here the longest. Yes, good point that you have already made multiple times. Are you implying that McNabb plays like hes over 40 years old or something with the 20 comment because as he has proved this season, McNabb is not an old man.

This would be the same Landry who in 15 NFL seasons threw for 13,000 fewer yards and nearly 100 fewer touchdowns than McNabb would manage in his first 10.
So McNabb turned into a great QB, maybe some people didn't see that happening. If it proves one thing it sure proves that Greg Landry sucked as a player when he was in the NFL because that is totally how you should judge someone's coaching ability.

He threw for 357 yards and three touchdowns in a Super Bowl loss to the Brady/Belichick Patriots and yet is best remembered for the interceptions, the sacks and the alleged dehydration/exhaustion/nausea that did or didn't get the best of him down the stretch.
You know why its crazy that he is remembered for that? Because that is HOW THE GAME ENDED! Really, all I care about during the Super Bowl is stats, not who WINS the game!

This year, McNabb was McNailed nationally for revealing he didn't know regular-season games could end in a tie.
Holy crap, I hope you get an award for that one.

Only something funny happened on the way to divorce court. McNabb beat the Cardinals, Giants and Browns, ripped the Cowboys in a win-or-else game and threw for 300 yards in a wild-card playoff victory over the Vikings.
It is amazing that he is playing wonderfully and so Philadelphians are loving him. Why don't they hate him like Philadelphians are supposed to?

Moral of the story, Mr O'Connor or is it Dr O'Connor, is that you are a poor story teller. You picked what could have been a great story (the longest tenured Philadelphia athlete), but instead you ruined it.