NFC Championship Game: Carolina Panthers 14 vs. Philadelphia Eagles 3 (Final)

1/18/04 | me

[baseballfanjm]

It's game time!

[Kahuna]

Remember fans; it ain't over till #5 plays. I say let Detmer save Philly. DM really is a big time chocker.

[Johnny_Cipher]

those cheerleaders knew their way around a pole and a stage.

Around a feedlot too. The numbered tags in their ears is a nice touch.

[StatesEnemy]

How much does it suck to be an Eagle fan?

[CounterCounterCulture]

Could someone explain the 'He Hate Me' thing?

The WWE's (World Wrestling Entertainment) Vince McMahon started his own football league called the XFL. One of the innovations of the XFL was that the players could choose what name to use on the backs of their jerseys instead of their last names as done in the NFL.

The first game was between, I believe, Las Vegas and New York/New Jersey. Rod Smart, the Las Vegas star, had used "HE HATE ME", bad grammar and all. And it turned out to be somewhat of a good marketing tool. Luckily he had enough talent that he's one of the few players to make it from the XFL into NFL (Steelers Touchdown Tommy Maddox another one I can recall)

XFL only lasted one season.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Could someone explain the 'He Hate Me' thing?

Smart, aka 'He Hate Me,' catching on in Carolina

[Prodigal Son]

Thanks. The XFL was also a bit of a mystery to me as well.

Didn't have that when I lived in the States.

[SMGFan]

Sports Illustrated jinx?

[Benrand]

XFL players, the XFL, a league devised by Vince McMahon, were permitted to put sayings on their jerseys instead of names. He Hate Me was a popular player...if not for his gramatically challenged tag but he waas a halfway decent player.

He's actually a pretty funny guy, from seeing him on the Fox pregame show awhile back.

[commish]

Just shows that a steady QB who doesn't make mistakes combined with a good defence is a winning combination. Delhomme and Brady just get the job done.

[willieroe]

Pam Oliver must be working just the Eagles sidelines.

[jaugust]

Still a lot of time left...

[Pubbie]

They're going to lose.

Panthers have made all the big plays and have all the momentum.

[mylife]

Hahahaha Holding and a crap pass

[ChadGore]

Go Pack !

[#3Fan]

No - a Panther knocked his knees together and caused McNabb to fall.

Going back to this, it looks like the lineman did get his shoe and maybe touched his thigh. Collinsworth is still an idiot for saying "3 seconds" though. It was more like half a second.

[flying Elvis]

I suppose they are now back in the stockyards and roadside dives from whence they emerged.

[cincinnati65]

Of course. The only player of interest in the whole game is McNabb.

[Poser]

"two quarterbacks in the Super Bowl were Jake Delhomme and Tom Brady"

The media would be able to idolize somebody new for two weeks. The best quarterbacks are tough guys with high IQs.

[John H K]

The fallacy of Rush's point? What was Rush's point, in your mind?

The great problem with proclaiming ANY athlete "overrated"....and this goes for the hundreds of times it's happened on sports radio, internet groups, etc. - is that immediately a pack of idiots will incorrectly perceive saying somebody is OVERRATED as saying somebody SUCKS.

A very good player can be overrated. It's possible for any player other than the very best player in that sport to be "Overrated."

For example, one of the most overrated players in baseball history is Nolan Ryan.

Say that on talk radio or somewhere, and immediate a pack of nitwits will call in saying the guy who said Nolan Ryan is overrated is stupid and knows nothing about baseball, Nolan Ryan holds the strikout record, etc.

But he's overrated because there's actually a not-insignificant group of people that think that Ryan is the greatest pitcher of all time, or one of the ten best Ps of all time, which is laughable. He was an excellent pitcher and a deserving Hall of Famer. But not one of the greatest of all time.

Rush never said McNabb was terrible, of course. he just said he was overrated.