Tonight should be exciting times for football and music fans with the NFL Pro Bowl and Grammy Awards, but unfortunately both are irrelevant. As much as I love football, I can’t bring myself to watch the Pro Bowl, especially this year with the collection of the league’s best playing the week before the Super Bowl. I’d rather watch a high school football game.
With the recent end of the decade, the league announced the All-Decade Team today and as you’d expect, there are some big names included. One glance at the list reveals a list of high class players, like Tom Brady, Ray Lewis, and LaDainian Tomlinson.
Then there are the guys that donned the green and white, those names that we Eagles fans really care about. The two, technically three, players that get the nod are not a surprise at all – kicker David Akers and safety Brian Dawkins.
We all know the story about David Akers, who joined the team a short time after Andy Reid. In need of a kicker, Reid made a shrewd move by taking the former Redskin off of waivers. A decade later, the man has been a story of dependability, leading the team in points and having a success rate that averaged around 80%.
Brian Dawkins is another guy that needs no introduction to Birds fans. He was easily the most popular player on the team during his time in Philly, and he always backed up his undying passion for the game with positively brilliant play. In one of tonight’s more interesting moments at the Pro Bowl (which a friend told me about, of course) he picked off Donovan McNabb. Dawkins may be getting old, but Weapon X can still play.
The third player that spent time in Philly, albeit just for two years, is everyone’s favorite narcissistic loudmouth, Terrell Owens.
Congratulations not only to the Eagles that made this team, but also the rest of the deserving players. Let’s hope that ten years from now we’ll be talking about a few more guys from Philly that made the team.
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