Donovan McNabb is respected by many and so far he is looking like Michael Vick’s biggest backer in the Philadelphia Eagles’ organization.
Speaking to ESPN.com, McNabb said fans can expect to see Vick and himself on the field at the same time.
“I’ll be a receiver. I might be a tight end,” he said with a smile Monday. “You never know where I’ll be.”
Eager to show they’re just as dumb as Donovan McNabb, other NFL players are coming to his defense. Some of his teammates also said they weren’t aware an NFL game could end in a tie, and the latest to defend him are Ben Roethlisberger and Hines Ward.
“People are making too big of a deal of this,” Roethlisberger told WXDX in Pittsburgh. “They’re being too hard on Donovan. I’d bet you fifty percent of the league didn’t know that at the time. You’d be surprised. People seem to think that the quarterback should know it all, and that everyone should know that stuff. And it’s not necessarily true. Because who ever thinks of that situation? How often does it ever come up? And the rules change so often that you never know what happens.”
Ward was part of the last tie back in 2002, so he knows. But he said he didn’t at the time.
“I thought we just played until we had a winner,” Ward said. “It’s kind of weird now that you can tie ball games.”
You’d have to be trying really hard not to know something like that. In fact, I believe the refs explain the overtime rules at the beginning of every single overtime. And if you take a quick look at the NFL standings, you’ll find a W, an L, and finally, the letter T. McNabb knows what the W and L stand for (I hope), so it’s simple math to figure out that the T means TIE!
I don’t believe 50 percent of the players didn’t know about ties. I have a hard time believing it was anyone other than McNabb, who by the way was in the league when the last tie occurred. This is just a case of players sticking up for a colleague because they like him.
Nothing makes me happier than to see an Eagles player look like an idiot, and Donovan McNabb made postgame comments that, if there is a God, will live in infamy forever in the Dumb Athlete Hall of Fame.
McNabb, who’s already an easy target for Philly fans, had no idea that an NFL game could end in a tie. Seriously. And I have no idea if he knew that they were recording him saying that. When every one of my jackass friends realizes there can be a tie, how does an NFL player not know? What else doesn’t he know? Was he encouraging his teammates with, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll get em in the next overtime.’?
