When it's the end of the winter and spring is around the corner, you realize it's a long time before legitimate football is back, you start to look in the past. When your team hasn't been to the playoffs in a few years, you look even farther. I happen to stumble on this little gem against our bitter rival the Giants. I was fortunate enough to be at this game live and I sat in the first row on the second level on the near end zone. I was with the wonderful Ernst family, wearing our Eagles jerseys, that game was probably one of the worst games I've seen ever, as the 10-7 score before the return noted. Might have almost dozed off a couple times, but then a little bit of Westbrook magic happened. Brian was known to be very quick and had skills to make players miss. We sat in the end zone that the Giants were kicking to so we got to see a great angle of Brian taking the punt. He stopped, started, stopped and then boom...turbo! Even that last shoulder tap where we thought his momentum would carry him out of bounds made for super high drama, but yes, our beloved Westbrook took it to the house and essentially won us the game on which would have otherwise been an effort in futility. Of course, the home crowd was absolutely shocked and disgusted, didn't know what else to do except tell us to get the bleep out of there and we caught countless middle fingers. We didn't care, our smiles and shock on the other side of the victory carried us to the parking lot for more chili and beer. The one thing we did know was that we just witnessed a historic play and one that we could talk about forever. So here's a little love for the Birds as we look to move to a new chapter later on this year........................E-A-G-L-E-S
This is great, I wrote everything above about a year ago, March of 2017. What a difference a year makes, Super Bowl Champs! I also enjoy how Cris Collingsworth and Troy Aikman are beside themselves that they kicked the ball to Westbrook. HOF Play by Play announcer Dick Stockton is amazing on the call as well, it's fantastic!
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