May 15, 2007

Eagle Fantasy

I mock WIP a lot around here, but I must give credit where credit is due. They've got a great thing going on right now with Best of the Nest. It's a "tournament," played out on the radio, among six of the best Eagles teams of all time.

They played the games on WhatIfSports.com, and this week they're acting them out on WIP during Glen Macnow's show, with Joe Conklin doing all the voices of the announcers and players. Conklin's quite a talent, when he's not reduced to doing witless bits on the station's brain-dead morning show.

I thought this sounded silly when I first heard about it- what, MORE Eagles content when it's not even football season?- but I listened to the first "game" (between the 1980 and 1995 teams) last night and it was really, really well done. (Here's the "recap," in the Daily News.) My favorite part of the narration was that trainer Otho Davis was running back and forth between the two sidelines, since he was the trainer for both the '80 and '95 Eagles.

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 15, 2007 04:50 PM
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