Baseball season is officially here

Baseball season is here now that I have my Baseball America Prospects Handbook.

A Sunday afternoon at the hockey game

So for my sons first hockey game we headed to Boardwalk Hall to see the Albany Devils vs the Hershey Bears and it was not that bad all. 

    

    

Thank you Andy

In the April before Andy Reid's final season in Philly he may have given us the greatest gift that he could, beside of course a SuperBowl. With the clocking ticking on this tenure, Reid drafted four guys that are soon to be corner stones to the Chip Kelly era.

With the Eagles first pick of that 2012 draft Reid selected Fletcher Cox, with his second pick he Mychal Kendricks, then he selected Vinny Curry, Nick Foles, Brandon Boykin, and Bryce Brown.

Traditional you like to get a couple of starters out of a draft, but Reid did better than that getting four starters, if you include Boykin would plays a ton. Curry came into his own this year and Brown is a solid back up.

Not bad for a guy who was basically a dead man walking.

Cover Story: Is it almost next year

A fun season ended for the Eagles on Saturday night as the Saints beat them in the NFC Wildcard weekend. It's been a fun year. 

Professional Tailgating: Going Bowling

On Saturday the Tailgating Crew headed to Yankee Stadium for Rutgers vs. Notre Dame in the Pinstripe Bow. During the game Rutgers played well but was outclassed by the superior Notre Dame talent. It was a fun game. Glad we went. 

Cover Story: Champs

Division Champs has a nice ring to it. 

Cover Story: Metro Dome Mess

At least the Cowboys didn't win

Bobble Head = Job Security

On Saturday night Rutgers handed out Kyle Flood Bobble Head dolls and at that point I knew that Flood was going nowhere. What school would give out bobble head then fire their coach a couple of days later. It's just not going to happen.

Freak Snow Storm = Fun with headlines

A freak snow storm dropped six inches of snow at the Linc yesterday, today The Philly Daily News had some with it. The Birds marked up another huge win yesterday and this team is starting to have a special look. 

24 Hours: Two Football games, two states

Over the weeked, the OTWT Tailgating crew head to two differet games in two different states. First we started at Rutgers to see them get bowl eligible against UConn. Then Suday I headed to the Philly for Eagles vs Lions in a snow storm. Below are the photos from the fun.

UConn vs. Rutgers

Lions vs Eagles

Now that was fun cold weekend.

Even Siri loves Nick Foles

I asked Siri on my iPhone who the best qb in the NFL and this was her response. Foles Fever is sweeping the nation. 

Nick Foles fever is sweeping Philly

Nick Foles fever is sweeping Philly from people buying retro Arizona jerseys of Foles to the Philly Daily News front pages. Foles Mania is everywhere. 

Epic Iron Bowl = Epic Front Pages

Yesterdays Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn was epic and today the papers in the state are just as classic. I just have a question did that really happen yesterday.

Chip Kelly's first year in papers

Its been a wild ride for Chip Kelly and the Eagles since he took over. Here is a look at how its has gone through a collection of Philly Daily News front pages.

The Perfect Group of Promotion Clubs

Leeds, Forest, and Derby. They are three of the biggest clubs in the history of English football, but there is a small problem they are all in the Championship and not the Premier League. The three historic clubs seem to have thing going well, going through a Championship Revival. I would love to see the three clubs back in the big time. It would make the Premier League a better place.

Cover Story: Maybe they are a playoff team

So the Eagles are 6-5 and have the look of a good team. Here are how the Philly papers covered the events. 

TAILGATING: Not a good day all around

So yesterday we headed to Rutgers for their game and boy was it a bad day. The Rutgers defense was terrible and then on the way a wild turkey ran into my car and destroyed the front bumper. 

Kyle Flood is on the twitter hotseat

Another Rutgers home game another terrible performance but the Scarlet Knights. Scarlet Knights fans have taken to twitter to call for his. The poulpular #firefllood. The end is near. 

Not the greatest couple of days for RU

A season ticket hike and three of your top recruits de-committing, it has not been the best couple of days for the Scarlet Knights Nation. It all started on Sunday when four star wide reciever Adonis Jennings decided to decommit, then on Monday it was a triple shot of bad new, first a season ticket increase for fans and then a pair of four star recruits decided to take a walk in Kiy Hester (pictured above) and Lamont Simmons.

I can deal with the season ticket increase, better product is coming in the form of a better schedule.

As for the recruits, its very simple until the NCAA has an early signing period this is going to happen. While Simmons is the one that is  the least surprising, the other two are more concerning. 

Hester has been a leader in trying to get more kids to commit to Rutgers. While Jennings has been one of the longer committed kids in the class. Part of me wonders if these two want to just take visits and will get back in the boat heading the Big Ten. Neither of the two have said they have crossed Rutgers off their list, so there is hope 

Two years ago Kyle Flood was able to hold together a class when Greg Schiano bolted for the Bucs. Let's hope that Flood can do that with this class, if not questions are going to abound. 

Philly Daily News covers better when Birds go down

The Eagles won and the only thing that stinks is that there were no epic Philly News back pages.