So the Eagles didn’t make it to the post-season. We at Fantoo will live.

Photo courtesy of DAVID MAIALETTI

However, we are stunned to see that everyone who played in the AFC Championship game has survived. Definitely in the top 10 most hard-hitting games we’ve seen. Ryan Clark’s hit on Willis McGahee was nauseating, but legal-ish, if intent is part of the judging process. It was helmet-to-helmet, but how is a defender supposed to alter his forward progress nanoseconds before contact?

Clark did not intend to take out McGahee, and according to pre-game blasts of testosterone, there was no hit to our knowledge ordered on McGahee. You could tell that by looking at Clark on the sidelines. He was devastated. Although, on second thought, maybe he didn’t like the choice of music or the up-close and personal shots of McGahee twitching as he was driven off the field. CBS could have shown a little more class by muting the kegger sound track in favor of some silence while McGahee was being tended to, and the camera crew could have given him a little privacy.

Which is why we aren’t posting any pics or video. Once is enough. If you were a big fan of the Faces of Death videos you can seek it out on YouTube all on your very own. (We’re too busy trying to hunt down footage of Oprah trying to sneak into the White House. Seriously, the chick is crushing a wee bit too much on Obama these days.)

It’s a miracle McGahee is ‘okay’, and by that we mean he is feeling his limbs. We doubt he’s out making snow angels right now, but we’re completely psyched he isn’t being serenaded by them as he makes his way through the 5th dimension. Every time a hit with that degree of severity occurs, The Girls hope all on the field take notice and try their best to avoid at all costs. Nothing, the Super Bowl included, is worth it.

The AFC game made the NFC game look like the All-Girls School championship. Not that the boys in the NFC didn’t put on a show, but nothing could top the hits happening in Pittsburgh. As Philadelphia Eagles fans we are starting to think they have succumbed to the tantric sex version of sports: take you right up to the very end in mind-numbing fashion, and then before the confetti can fall they bolt like a vampire at sunrise.

Someday our ship will come, but until then we will be sadly bidding adieu to the NFL 2008 season which culminates in Tampa on February 1st. It will be a great match up that we will dish on in the coming days. It may not be your big market teams, but a little Roethlisberger and some Larry Fitzgerald go a long way.

Tampa…fasten your seat belts…

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