Reports: McNabb Sick During Crucial Part Of Super Bowl

AP ^ | February 8, 2005

[West Coast Conservative]

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was so ill in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl that a teammate had to call a play in the huddle, center Hank Fraley said.

"He fought to the end," Fraley told Comcast SportsNet on Monday. "He gave it his all. He was almost puking in the huddle. One play had to be called by (wideout) Freddie Mitchell because Donovan was mumbling because he was almost puking."

Offensive lineman Jon Runyan also echoed Fraley's comments in the same interview aired on two local radio stations on Tuesday after the Comcast report.

McNabb was shaky in Philadelphia's 24-21 loss to the England Patriots on Sunday, throwing for 357 yards and three touchdowns, was also getting picked off three times.

McNabb misfired on several passes early, held the ball too long in other instances and made several poor decisions. One of the best scramblers in the NFL, McNabb had zero yards rushing on just one carry and was sacked four times.

An Eagles spokesman did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday.

[iconoclast]

Warren Sapp!

Where does it end?

[BlackRazor]

I'm not a huge Big Country fan, but they are a great "guitar band." I read somewhere that they're still quite popular on European tours -- is that true?

They still had a decent following of hard-core fans, though not as large (or broad) as it was as recently as the early or mid 1990's. They were close to making something of a European comeback in 2000, and would have had a chart hit, but the sales for that single were disqualified from the rankings on the grounds that the packaging was non-standard. A second single was also gaining momentum until the radio station that was really promoting it realized the group was a bunch of old fogies, rather than some new young hip band, at which point they pulled their support.

Unfortunately, Stuart Adamson (lead guitarist, lead singer and primary songwriter) committed suicide in December 2001. The band's record label is still putting out previously unreleased material, but obviously the band is no more. I never cared for the band's politics (they're way to the left), but I've always loved their music.

[Alberta's Child]

Gosh, that's a shame -- I wasn't even aware of that Scott Adamson story. I knew they had resurfaced somewhat in the late 1990s, but I never heard "the end of the story," so to speak.

[BlackRazor]

I knew they had resurfaced somewhat in the late 1990s, but I never heard "the end of the story," so to speak.

Adamson had a long-standing problem with alcoholism, going back to when he was with The Skids in the late 70's/early 80's. From everything I'd heard, he stayed clean & sober throughout most of the 1990's. He moved to Nashville, TN sometime in the late 1990's and was here in the US when September 11 happened. Apparently, that affected him deeply, and he began drinking again. He was displaying erratic behavior throughout that fall (he was a no-show for a scheduled concert, for example). He finally disappeared sometime in December, and they found he had hung himself in his hotel room in Hawaii.