Oh silly silly...

You should know not to mess with the MOJO.. Dat Eagles MOJO... the Green Wave of MOJO!

GO EAGLES!

The twins dropped by and twisted my arm.

You Eagles fans and your cheerleading - I have a visual of a cross between the Bud Light Girls (remember the "Ladies Night" ads?) and the Fab Five. wink

We haven't met in person yet, GJ, so go ahead and assume that I am the "Fab Five" portion of that equation. wink

PF--I e-mailed scottie last night and requested his presence...

GO EAGLES!

See, you waited too long this week to keep track of him... Dont let him blow the mojo this/next/future weeks JIP. All we ask for is ONE MOJO POSTS.. just one.

As far as GJ's bud light girls comment... toots, you KNOW which NFL tailgate party you would be attending cause it would... in a word... be a rockin-good-time. Always remember this tho, it's that team down in your area that encourages their fans to dress in chic cloths...

This morning i tip my glass to ....

MD and his gameday get-up.

Dawk's health...

Boddy Taylor playin next week...

and to the best mojo in the world... eagle mojo...

GO BIRDS!

[ November 21, 2003, 08:17 AM: Message edited by: PhillyFan ]

Dayum right! I'll take that as an invite!

Just dont spill your drink while you are jumping up and down for us in your tight outfit we'd have you wear.... Not that we'd exploit women or anything...

Hey GJ - Dont forget your, uh, "stocking stuffers" and keep your head low!!

GJ - Raze doesn't appreciate the beauty and sophistication of the Philly Fans -- we are so passionate about our team, well, we express our love in unusual ways and sometimes go a bit overboard. We don't use the big batteries though -- only triple A

Nawww. Not pretty. Instead I'd bring along my own personal contingent of "Juggies".

Well number 1...

A True Eagle Fan would never throw a battery at an opposing fan.... They get a different type of welcome....

I think GJ probably has a good arm on her, probably could reach the field from the upper deck also... hmmmmmm... MD maybe you need to grab someone for sunday?

i raise my glass to honor the honorary chic cheerleader/hot babe.... GJ...

It's only 10 a.m. in Arizona -- your already drinking a lot. Trying to compete with Raze?? wink

9, 10, 11.. or beer thirty... it's always time to toast....

for your special visit this sunday, i saw this posted somewhere else.... sorry raze dont see nuttun about batteries...

By Frank Devlin
Of The Morning Call

November 21, 2003

Here's a word to the wise for New Orleans
Saints fans planning to attend
the
Saints-Eagles game Sunday at Lincoln
Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Expect abuse.

Even though the Eagles now play in a truly
beautiful new stadium, with
dramatic architectural lines and a pretty field of
real grass, it has not
made fans any mellower.

Despite concerns that new digs would make
Eagles fans docile, here's what
happened in an end zone section of the new
stadium, aka ''the Linc,'' at
the
Oct. 26 Eagles-Jets game:

People in Jets jerseys (bad idea) were greeted
with a mildly profane chant
every time they walked into or out of the section
to visit a restroom or
get
a snack.

A pretty young woman walking up some steps
suddenly stopped beside a Jets
fan in an aisle seat, voiced the chant, and
moved on.

An Eagles fan scanned the crowd for people
who might be undercover Jets
supporters. Such people he liked even less
than jersey-wearing Jets fans
because at least the jersey wearers had the
guts - he actually said
something other than ''guts'' - to wear the jersey.

Welcome to the Linc.

There were worries before the Eagles began
playing in their
$500-million-plus stadium this year that
niceties, including cupholders,
and
- be still my heart - a reasonable amount of
bathroom facilities would
sedate Eagles fans and erase the home-field
advantage provided by their
passion.

But at the Jets game, my first visit to the Linc, the
fans were as loud and
feisty as they were at the Vet, where I saw the
Eagles play a couple games
a
year stretching back to the mid-1980s.

Of course, everyone's got an opinion.

Season ticket holder Seth (in 736)* says the
fans are louder at the new
stadium
but they're not hopping to their feet as much, at
least not near his seat
six rows from the top of the stadium in section
227.

''There are a lot of people that don't just jump up
with the reckless
abandon that they used to at the Vet,'' where
Seth sat in the upper deck's
notorious 700 level. ''Every time someone
stands up, you're forever hearing
someone say, 'Sit down. Sit down,''' he says.

But at the game I attended last month, plenty of
fans in my section jumped
up for big plays. The people yelling commands
were the ones who were
standing. They wanted the people who were
sitting to rise up and show some
enthusiasm during the home team's 24-17
victory.

I guess no matter what you do at an Eagles
game, you're going to annoy
somebody - the standers if you're sitting, the
sitters if you're standing.

Welcome to the Linc.

Sedate fans haven't taken over the Linc so far,
says Seth, but he's afraid
it could still happen.
He's noticed that security
guards in the concourses, while friendly, are
''hypersensitive'' to Eagles
fans booing or using profanity toward visiting
fans.

At this year's Eagles-Redskins game, Seth
says, a security guard warned
him that his tickets could be revoked after he
booed a Redskins fan.

Seth says he hopes vociferous Philadelphia
fans aren't put off by such
warnings to the point that they give up their
tickets and usher in kinder,
gentler fans.

He says the abuse directed at visiting fans is
important because it keeps
the enemy's supporters to a minimum.

Seth says he doesn't want visiting fans to
become as comfortable and
numerous as Eagles fans are in other
stadiums, where you can often hear
them
chant ''Duce'' - for Eagles running back Duce
Staley - on television
broadcasts.

If Eagle fans let up, he says, ''I'm afraid it's going
to become such a
docile atmosphere you're going to start seeing
7,000 Giants fans here.''

''I don't want to see our stadium go vanilla,'' he
says.

Eagles season ticket holder Ross Smith says,
''Philadelphia fans give
people
in other jerseys a lot harder time than people in
other cities give to
Eagles fans. I've been to Carolina, Atlanta,
Detroit, Chicago.

''There's a reputation and people feel they need
to live up to it,'' says
Smith, who still goes to Eagles games even
though he moved from Delaware to
North Carolina in 1996.

Seth says an Eagles crowd is ''a private club
and if you're not from here
and you're not wearing green on Sunday then
you're not in it. I don't want
you around.''

In addition to the mildly profane chant, fans
where I sat for the Jets game
- section C13, which is in the middle rung of the
stadium - interacted with
visiting fans by saying ''Jets stink'' (they actually
said a different word
than ''stink'') or by telling them to shut up when
they tried to respond to
taunting. A typical response of a jeered Jets fan
was to wave and smile as
if responding to cheers.

Before the season, Eagles fans worried that the
new stadium would make the
energy of Eagles fans fizzle.

One possibility, they said, was that 700 level
fans - whose comparable
tickets at the Linc cost 83 percent more than
their upper-deck ducats did
at
the Vet ($55 versus $30) - would be priced out
and replaced by bland
corporate types.

That didn't happen because 95 percent of
Eagles season ticket holders
bought
season tickets for the Linc.

Another worry was that the look of the Linc
would somehow make fans
awestruck and put them on their best behavior.

Worries that fans would go soft were quickly
erased when the Eagles lost
their first two home games and were booed with
gusto.

And the fans I've talked to don't sound awed by
the new stadium.

Smith says the Linc is ''pretty nice'' but ''not
knock your socks off
better'' than the Vet.

For his 83 percent ticket price hike, he says, he
expected it to be knock
your socks off better. The things that impress
him most, he says, are the
giant video screens above each end zone.
They're cinemascope in shape and
high definition in clarity. But he goes to football
games for the action on
the field, he says, not a video projection of it.

Seth says the Linc is ''great aesthetically.''

''But I loved the Vet for the game-day
experience,'' he says. ''I liked the
dirty concrete jungle intimidating atmosphere,
knowing the other team
didn't
want to be there.''

Dr. Joseph DiMino, director of the Montgomery
County Health Department,
carried over four Eagles season tickets from the
Vet to the Linc. He opted
to sit in a section that required a one-time
licensing fee of $1,780 per
season ticket, he says.

He used to sit on the 20-yard line in the Vet's
500 level, the lowest
section in the upper deck. Now he's in the first
row of the Linc's upper
deck on the 20-yard line.

''Almost anywhere you sit you have a good view''
in the new stadium, he
says. But the doctor, perhaps indicative of what
he does for a living,
quickly segued to talking about the wealth of
bathroom facilities at the
Linc.

''There are plenty of restrooms,'' he says. ''There
are plenty of stalls.
That's a plus. Now you're not really waiting in
line. Now people aren't in
the sink'' like they famously did at Veterans
Stadium.

I, too, was impressed by the restrooms. After the
Jets game ended, there
was
no line at the one closest to my seat. According
to the Eagles, the men's
restroom facilities ratio is 1 for every 58 men at
the Linc, compared to 1
for every 319 at the Vet.

But at the Jets game, I was more impressed by
the overall appearance of the
Linc than the restrooms, the video screens or
even the way the game looked
from my seat.

And the game looked great from my seat in C13,
which sells for a face value
of $55 but cost $100 through a ticket agency.
(Eagles games are sold out
this year.)

You can see the vantage point for yourself by
visiting
lincolnfinancialfield.com Web site and clicking
''stadium information'' and
then ''stadium section tours.''

But here's what I really liked about the Linc:

The way anticipation builds as you walk toward
the stadium because breaks
in
the upper level seating let you see into it from
outside, unlike the Vet,
which was completely enclosed on the sides
and an ugly structure to boot.

The way the seating starts so close to the field
compared to the Vet. With
fans closer to the action, the stadium has an
intimate feel even though it
holds about 3,000 more people for football than
Veterans Stadium.

The way the gaps in the upper deck let you see
from inside the stadium to
the outside, too. It makes the stadium
interesting visually and also gives
you something to look at during TV timeouts,
which are the bane of
attending
professional football games.

While fans at home can channel surf or get a
quick snack for a couple
minutes, people at the game have to just sit
there and listen to terrible
piped-in music.

At the Vet, I abhorred TV timeouts. But at the
Linc, I didn't mind them a
bit.

Then again, I'm a bit of an aesthete when it
comes to football. I was
excited when a new kind of artificial turf started
appearing at NFL
stadiums
that looked better than the old variety.

And the appearance of uniforms matter to me
probably more than the next
football fan.

All of this probably makes me some kind of
nerd.

Fine. Call me a nerd.

Just don't call me a Saints fan.

Especially when I'm at the Eagles-Saints game
on Sunday.

sorry raze dont see nuttun about batteries...


Didnt say anything about the rats either, did they bring those over from the Vet or does the Linc have its own rats?

As you can see from the story... the treatment is designed to rid the linc of any rats that would come...

GO EAGLES!

The only rats at the Linc will be when the Dallas fans crawl out of their holes in a couple of weeks. Sorry, Raze - you left yourself open on that one.

This will be my last post here before gametime. The green and silver paint is ready to go; will look for appropriate head dress (either the flapping Eagles wings or the green hair).

GO EAGLES! MOJO MOJO MOJO

Ok where is the scottie mojo? I will hold him personally responsible if things dont well on sunday if he does not chime in....

OK, gotta ask...who is Scottie?

Raze man, keep up...

You job is not to think...it's to make battery post and anti-mojo posts, which in the end give GREAT MOJO, with your anti-mojo post. so keep making your (anti-mojo) which is actually positive mojo... got that?

Oh yea, GO EAGLES, cheers.

check out Gay Local Sports, esp. the Phillies' Gay Day. Seems like he's the King of gay sports in Philadelphia (and a helluva nice guy).

My prediction: Saints 21 Eagles 18

The saints have got to get in playoff position to blow it in December. That means they must win this week!!

Similar to how the Vikings have to make it to the playoffs, then lose in the first round.

It's all about history and trend...

I'm not sure he qualifies as the King of gay sports--he is specifically a baseball fan. But he IS a helluva nice guy.

GO EAGLES!

[ November 22, 2003, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]

JIP, you now have less than 24 hours to complete your mission.....

Dont worry PF, Walgreens is open 24 hours a day.

[ November 22, 2003, 11:51 AM: Message edited by: RazorbackTX ]

PF, I am not scottie's keeper. I e-mailed him. If he doesn't reply, we'll simply win without him.

Something for Raze

Not even a football fan, but I am hearing voices in my head "MOJO, MOJO". As a hometown boy, of course I want the Eagles to win. And when someone wants me to have Tastykake and Wawa coffee, well, that's doin' a what comes naturally.

Thanks for the kind words GatorJamie and Joe in Philly. Meeting with those Phillies next week to start planning you know what... Gay Day II!

I just have to say: the officials are making this the most unwatchable game I've ever seen. More later....

[ November 23, 2003, 12:48 PM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]

The final totals: 14 Eagles penalties, 11 Saints penalties--that's not even including the ones that were declined!

It's a good thing the Eagles offense is picking up because I think the defense, against a top-notch offense, would have a lot more trouble with all the injuries and inexperience in the secondary. Looking at the schedule, though, there aren't any top-notch offenses left for them to face.

They really just needed to let these guys play...

penalty after penalty after penalty... was just stupid i tell ya..

However, this was another nice win by the birds... at the end of the day... all about dem Turnovers man...

PROPS and CHEERS to MD....

The MOJO Express keeps rolling. I can now confirm definitely that the curse on the Lonc was removed by PF during his visit at the beginning of the season. A beautiful stadium with tons of Mojo and character (OK, a bunch of characters also). A note to Raze -- I didn't see anyone with batteries. I think they are saving them for the Cowboys game.

The green and silver face paint was a big hit but a pain IN the a*# to remove. The 8 year old beard was a casualty but it was getting too gray anyway.

What the heck, if JIP was willing to shave his head if the Phils won the pennant, the beard seems like a small sacrifice

There is a rumor that a certain Eagles fan out West will not be getting a haircut as long as the Mojo Express is rolling.

E-A-G-L-E-S

"Looks like you wont be cutting your hair this week" that could be heard throughout the west this week with the last haircut coming well before the trip to the linc... yeah... sept.

2 games of the 4 game stretch are down, now the 2 biggies sit on the horizon...

Who is starting the carolina thread?

I nominate JIP to keep the Mojo rolling.

Well JIP needs to get on it! This is a short week, the mojo needs to flow and flow fast!