[Lancey Howard]

The sportswriter starts his diatribe mocking the death of Favre's father, a clearly low-rent, toilet-bowl-scraping thing to do.

No he didn't, sinkspur. He said that fans on talk radio were mocking the "angel on the shoulder" idiocy (which was propagated by other sportswriters and announcers). But that's an exaggeration anyway. I listen to Philly sports talk from time to time and the fans were not "mocking", they were just "give-it-a-rest-already"ing.

By the way, this paper is Philly's "Daily Trotskyite Worker" tabloid and they go over the top all the time. This piece is just a (partly) tongue-in-cheek attempt to get the fans riled up.

Regards,
LH

[sinkspur]

By the way, this paper is Philly's "Daily Trotskyite Worker" tabloid and they go over the top all the time. This piece is just a (partly) tongue-in-cheek attempt to get the fans riled up.

Is it gonna snow there this weekend?

I'll never forget the game Dallas played up there when Jimmy Johnson and some of the players got frozen snowballs and cups of frozen ice thrown at them as they left the field.

That's when that octogenarian, Buddy Ryan, was coaching the Eagles.

[Catspaw]

Oh, someone's going to get riled up, all right, but it's not the chickenhawk's fans. That person is Brett Favre.

And don't say I didn't warn you.

[xp38]

It may indeed rile up the fans but it may also rile up the Packers.

[jaugust]

"This piece is just a (partly) tongue-in-cheek attempt to get the fans riled up."

I don't think it takes much to get Phils fans riled up. And they certainly don't need any help from a sportswriter. Some of this is fun stuff but when it gets into the personal, then it's over the top. To quite a few of us Packer fans this is old news, and it just doesn't do any good to dredge up old news.