The Eagles all black uniforms
So this past weekend the Eagles did something they have never done before, they wore all black uniforms. Honestly, I rather liked it. i thought it was a slick look and way better than their Midnight Green jerseys, which I’ve never liked all that much. Seriously, the all blacks with the green trim and white numbers, with Green and White stripes on the pants…good stuff. Midnight green was always ugly to me. I think the Eagles should go back to Kelly Green, but if not that they should actually keep the all blacks. Or at least make the black jersey the primary and the stupid green the alternate. They were good uniforms.
Also I never got to make a good Riley Cooper is a racist joke when that news broke, so here it is now. Thanks to BobbyBigWheel during the game last night for the inspirational joke.
as for the game…
ugh, that game.
That game was the worst game I’ve watched since the 2000 Super Bowl. Even worse than the 2010 comeback, to me anyway. Comebacks happen and I was more mad at us letting them off the hook that game. When they came back to win I think the Giants deserved that pain for being stupid and complacent. This was a different experience. I’ve watched blowouts, I’ve seen my share of the Giants crapping themselves, but it happens. Football defines a lot of my life but not in the way that a loss or bad season isn’t going to wreck me. I’m out to find the fun in it. I’ve gotten okay enough with it that I can even have some fun with bad games and bad seasons.
But Cruz going down made that game feel different. Cruz is a beloved star. Local jersey boy, undrafted and unrespected, who blew the lid open one game in a replacement role and helped us win a Super Bowl. He’s a great guy, a class act, and really fun to watch (even if he gets the dropsies once in a while). He’s an integral part to our offense, someone who must be planned for regardless of how well he’s playing. Cruz is a Giants hero. Watching him go down on a non contact injury (you can see him try to jump but the knee just not work, and it likely caused him to drop the ball) and then hear he was screaming in agony and was carted off crying was just too much. The crying really got to me. I turned the game off. We had no chance at that point and our one chance to come back in it turned into our best WR being gone for the year. I can’t imagine the Giants even had the right mentality for football after that. I sure didn’t. It’s hard to feel funny when the curtain comes down and you see just how bad things can be, when you remember just how human the people playing the game are. I have little to no hope for the season now, and I think most of us will look back on this game and that play as the reason it all went wrong.
I don’t know if we’ll ever get our Cruz back, but I wish him well. Take your time, do the rehab right. Don’t rush it to come back with us, we will welcome you back with no reservations no matter what.
Kudos to the Eagles who played very well, hard to hate on a team that simply outplayed you to such an extent. Kudos to the fans, who didn’t act like classless dicks outside the average few who always do. This is far removed from the Eagles fan stereotype and I think maybe it’s time we let the Eagles fans being awful stereotype go a little bit. Every team has awful, ignorant people in their fanbases. There are Giants fans I’ve wanted to punch more than anyone else. Eagles fans have passion for their team and most of them are completely reasonable people. No one should judge a fanbase by the bad apples. I know it’s fun, but hate the individual, not the collective based on the individual.
With all that said, I leave with one ever important statement.
Fuck the Eagles forever and ever amen
I honestly thought you were going to address the tie between Cincinnati and Carolina, or Cleveland’s slaughter of Pittsburgh!
I was seriously surprised when a mass of philadelphia fans called out that one radio guy who cheered the Cruz injury on twitter and basically made him go on the biggest backpedal in the history of sports journalism. They actually looked like a legitimate fanbase instead of the band of uruk-hai they usually do, so… I have to give them respect for the former because I’ve always given them shit for the latter.
We get a bad rap for injuries because we cheered the Micheal Irvin injury but that’s because he was a diva and played for the cowboys who we hate more than the Giants. Cruz always seemed like a nice guy and most of us felt really bad about what happened.
For me it had nothing to do with Irvin… it had everything to do with how philly fans closer to giants stadium reacted to Dodgegate. That day in 2010 was when I learned to hate philly… last sunday was when I learned to not hate them. Besides, djax is a redskin now, so I should be hating them…
“band of Uruk-hai”…epic.
is this part two of a hand raising trilogy? like cornettos but not delcious
Mmm… Cornettos…
Muffins?
I’m a Packer fan, but nonetheless: CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKER
Larry Donnel caught a TD, but it was called back because Will Beatty was holding. The drive ended with Cruz on the cart.
Fuck Will Beatty with a shotgun!
Fuck the Giants? Obviously kidding. Cruz is a loss for you guys. He’s a total class act and hate when nice genuinely talented guy get hurt. I was thrilled by how we played. This was the 1st game this season where I was happy most of the game.
I actually sat next to a Giants fan this game who was awesome. What I’ll tell you at the game, a lot of the giants fans were out to provoke Eagles fans. Seriously, I watched one guy curse out and eagles fan who was just like whatever. For the most part, security is everywhere at birds games now and the fans don’t tolerate douche bagery.
For a Sunday night game, it was TAME by my standards as a fan whose been going to birds game since the days of eagles court at the vet.
You’d like the birds fans, who sit behind us who yell “Racist” everytime Coop does something.
Really hoping you do something with Vontaze Burfict
why does he ignore Cooper?
http://deadspin.com/eagles-wr-riley-cooper-at-concert-i-will-fight-every-979470075
Everyone respects Cruz. When I did my animation module at college, I gave my American football player the jersey number 80 rather than 12 (Brady). I thoroughly respect Cruz and was shocked to see him go down in such a way. He’a a talented and genuinely nice guy.
And respect for (most) Eagles fans’ way of handling this, with class instead of… The usual.
Cruz going down in pain and anguish was one of the most gut wrenching things I have watched on sports TV in recent years (aside from Fox’s infinite loop broadcast of Bowman’s knee getting mangled). I wish him all the best, and even though I’m not a Jersey/A (to quote Peter King) fan, Cruz was one of the most fun player to watch in the NFL. In fact, in his MMQB column this week, Peter King aptly commented that the NFL really does not overpay its football players.
The fact that we pay the most damaging positions – halfback and inside OL – the least in a sport that already deals it’s players less than baseball or basketball is ludicrous.
I had the exact same reaction when Navarro Bowman went down in last year’s NFC Championship. (49ers are my team) I just turned the game off. It sucks to see such a classy player go down in such a bad way. 🙁 Victor Cruz is one of my favorite players in the NFL. I’m sad we won’t get to see more of him this year.