McWeird

THIS GUY over at TNC backs up the head-scratching I've done about Eagles fans over the last 10+ years with a quote from a Giants fan that I as a Cowboys fan have often felt:

My boy, a Giants fan who saw dude make his team work twice a year, used to ask what all the hate was about. I never knew how to answer him. I honestly didn't know.

I understand booing him on draft day out of simple frustration of not picking Ricky Williams; it can be assumed they would've booed whoever they picked, not specifically McNabb.

But year after year since that day, I have never met an Eagles fan that when asked about McNabb didn't roll his eyes in frustration and screech how much they needed to "get him the fuck out of there." Meanwhile, he's a borderline Hall of Famer, by far the greatest Eagles quarterback (or player, really) in history, and took them to 4 NFC championships and a Super Bowl. And it's not as if the Eagles Super Bowl trophy assembly line all of a sudden stopped once he got there; they haven't won an NFL championship since 1960. Reggie White never carried the Eagles to a Super Bowl, and yet I don't remember the Eagles fans' desperate pleas to get him the fuck out of Philly.

And yet if you ask the Eagles fan about Ron Jaworski, the reaction is the complete opposite. He is the cherished Eagles qb of memory; the worst thing anyone will ever say about Jaworski is that he got his ass kicked by Lawrence Taylor, which doesn't exactly place him in an exclusive fraternity. Meanwhile, McNabb has been a scourge on the city since the day he got there and started winning 10+ games a year in the NFL's toughest division.

The Eagles fan's hatred of McNabb from Day 1 is certainly one of the most peculiar things in all of sports over the past decade. It's very easy to point to racism, but the Eagles once booed Santa Claus, who we all know is white. Very strange.