June 04, 2007

McNabb in the Morning

No, hell did not freeze over this morning, but Donovan McNabb did appear on 610 WIP's morning show.

To say the show has had a contentious relationship with the quarterback (and the Eagles in general) over the years is to put it mildly. Host Angelo Cataldi led a group of 30 ruffians up to New York for the 1999 draft in which they booed McNabb's selection, and the show has spent the seven years pushing the "McNabb is overrated/he choked in the Super Bowl/if he hasn't won a championship, he sucks" line generally favored by the dumbest five percent of Eagle fans.

The Cataldi/McNabb detente began a few months ago when Donovan and his wife ran into Cataldi, co-host Rhea Hughes, and their respective spouses at an area restaurant, and McNabb had a bottle of wine sent to the WIP personalities' table. Apparently this led to enough of a thawing in relations that #5 included the morning show on his latest media tour today.

I heard most of the interview and it went off without incident, answering questions and acting in good humor, as they went over every topic - T.O., the last two minutes of the Super Bowl, Chunky Soup, Donovan's mom, etc.- that's been hashed over on the station every day for nearly the past decade. A subsequent McNabb interview on the city's other sports-talk outlet, Sports Radio 950, went even more smoothly.

WIP was in even better form the previous day, though. The Phillies beat the Giants 9-8 on Sunday, on a walk-off homer by Shane Victorino, on what happened to be Shane Victorino Day. It was wild, up-and-down game, marked by non-stop rain, a three-run homer by Ryan Howard, a booed Barry Bonds grounding out in his only at bat, Danny DeVito throwing out the first pitch, and finally Victorino's homer. The win got the Phils to .500, and while they've clearly got lots of problems, you'd think people would be happy about such an exciting win.

Nope. As soon as the game was over, 610 took about ten calls in a row of the Phillies suck/Manuel sucks/we-should-all-boycott-the-games variety. None of these people found it fit to mention that the team they root for had just won the friggin' game.

Posted by Stephen Silver at June 4, 2007 04:50 PM
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