Thanks to our friend Robert Littal over at Black Sports Online for the tip on this one.
During today’s NFC Divisional Round playoff game between the Eagles and Giants, which the Eagles won 23-11 to advance to the NFC Championship game next weekend, Donovan McNabb was flagged for a taunting penalty late in the game after picking up the telephone on the Giants’ sidelines.
I actually missed this play when it happened, but heard Joe Buck and Troy Aikman talking about it afterwards. Luckily for McNabb and the Eagles, the game had already been iced away and the penalty did not have any adverse effect on the outcome.
Courtesy of BSO, here is the video:
And as Littal points out in his post about McNabb picking up the phone on the Giants sideline and getting penalized, Troy Aikman had a pretty good like after it happened: “Sometimes I don’t know what is running through that guy’s head.”
In a related story, football fans across the country still have no idea what was running through the head of Donovan McNabb earlier this season when he made these infamous comments about the NFL’s overtime rules.
We do, however, know exactly what is running through Donovan McNabb’s head right now: he and his Eagles are heading to their fifth NFC Championship game this decade to take on another 9-win team, the Arizona Cardinals. And as Mike Florio at PFT points out, this season will be the first time in a non-strike season since 1979 that a 9-win team will be going to the Super Bowl.
Wow. A crazy NFL season just gets crazier. And if San Diego can win at Heinz Field today (behind the inspirational running of Darren Sproles), it will mean that all four home teams, and all four teams who had byes, lost in the Divisional Round.
I guess “bye” had a much different meaning than usual this season.
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