As some of you may or may not know, Jeffrey Lurie is the current owner of the Philadelphia Eagles and has owned them since 1995. As fewer of you may know, I have reason to believe the man is satan (or some variant of either devil or general miscreant) in human pajamas.True there have been playoff teams under his tenure, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The man cares for nothing about the actual team itself.
The man is from Boston. This means he can never relate to Philadelphia sports. ever. Simple fact, but I don't wish to harp on it. I'll add this though before continuing on, in addition to being from boston, he was a hollywood producer of crappy movies before that. I'll just leave this suggestion about him. He bought the team as a status symbol, much in the same way Mark Cuban bought the Mavs, and Abrahimovich (or whatever the hell that guys name is) bought Chelsea FC. Point -- He doesn't really care about the team, it's his play thing.
But onto serious matters.
His first act as owner was changing the team's colors. Heresy. The team has had those colors since its second year of existence, shedding the colors it kept from the previous Philly team, the Frankford Yellow Jackets (colors inspired by the flag of the city itself). That's roughly 60 years of one set of colors. And what does he do? He "modernizes" it. He makes it "more intimidating and aggressive". What did he really do? He changed it from Kelly Green and Silver to Black and Midnight Green. What was wrong with kelly green and silver? Frankly, what is more intimidating and aggressive than a drunken irishman looking for a fight? A pine forest?
He also changed the logo. Before being a whole eagle soaring high, holding a football. Now, a decapitated eagle's head. "Oh but the look in its eyes is fierce!" Oh, but it doesn't have a body and is dead!
Next step of business -- Hire a head coach that is legally Batshit crazy in Ray Rhodes. Don't get me wrong, that first year or two wasn't too bad. But can you honestly expect a man to keep playing 120% for a man who threatens to kill your (noun) and after two years see no harm come to (noun), even after being a little lazy? Yeah. That's what I thought.
Next mode of business -- make a tv movie centered around the team about Tony Danza somehow becoming your kicker (vaguely, kinda sorta bastardized from the real story of Vince Papale). In addition, have an acting role in said movie.
Current mode of business -- settle for mediocrity.
The eagles made the NFC championship game 4 times in a row, winning the last one. Never in any of these years has there been a superbowl victory. But that's ok, look what they did. What?
Donovan McNabb, while being a gutsy QB who would scrap out wins early on, lost his stomach around the same time he started losing his thirst for running. Someone should have sat down a while ago and got him using his mobility to scrap out more wins, instead of sitting in the pocket and taking what is given, or gotten him to sit on the bench. While he is good, he's no longer a winner. If the team is down, they cannot rely upon him to take them upon his shoulders and over to victory. That is what winning qbs do.
Jeffrey Lurie must be done away with, possibly Andy Reid too. Maybe everything needs to get scrapped and start over.
I'm just slightly thankful we don't have THE worst owner. Currently that would either be the Ford family (Lions) or Al Davis (Raiders).
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