Jevon Kearse was arrested late last week for a DUI.

That's not Jevon's style....and many are surprised.

Not me.

Don't get me wrong, it's not Jevon. It's THE CURSE OF ANGRY ANDY.

Please allow me to explain.

I've had a long standing theory, that anyone who crosses seemingly easy going Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, it ends VERY badly for them.

Please allow to me to explain the "Wrath of Angry Andy", I could go on about this for hours...but let's just do "the greatest hits"

Terrell Owens. Notoriously criticized Andy Reid. Was cut, did sit ups in his driveway, cuts a failed rap single, signs with Dallas, overdoses, breaks a finger and the last 2 times we saw TO, he ended his most recent season, embarrasingly crying on camera , and his last public appearance, we has photographed hanging out on the set of a Triple X feature film.

Jeremiah Trotter. At one point, thought he could get more money by leaving the Philadelphia Eagles and joining the Washington Redskins....well Jeremiah struggled, was cut, called Andy, and re joined the Eagles and re established himself as "The Ax Man"

Corey Simon called out Andy Reid and held out of camp and demanded to leave Philly. Corey Simon was soon diagnosed with an unknown ailment...he never played....and was cut from the Colts, and was never heard from again.

Hollis Thomas, also demanded to leave Andy Reid's squad in Philly....he was soon busted for steroids.

Freddie Mitchell. FRED X. Had the great idea to insult Andy Reid. Andy Reid told Freddie to not bother showing up for any Eagles camps ever again. Since that insult...Freddie has never ever played an official down in the NFL again.

Rush Limbaugh. Rush made that idiotic Donovan McNabb racial comment. Donovan took the higher ground and said nothing. Andy said nothing....however, since that comment, Rush has been fired from ESPN, caught with drugs a few times and has been checked into rehab.

Michael Vick. Went on record to say he didn't even care about playing in the Atlanta-Philly New Years eve game in 2006. Well, we all know what happened to Michael Vick after this game. Angry Andy wants you to care. If you don't. He'll get you.

CBS 3. This Philly affiliate, being anchored by Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane....were among the first to "break" the story about Andy Reid's sons. Well look at what has happened to BOTH of those anchors.

Timothy Carr. Yep me. I specifically wrote that Andy Reid may have made a bad decision by cutting Jeremiah Trotter and possibly weakening what could be a lethal defense. Almost 15 minutes after I wrote that.....I came down with a debilitating fever. 104 degrees and I was out of commission for DAYS. Let it be known....prior to this fever...I hadn't been sick in 12 years.

So now, unfortunately, Jevon Kearse joins the "CURSE OF ANGRY ANDY". There are so many more folks that have been caught up in this theory.....but I'll leave that to all of you to discuss and ponder.

With that said, now that I've gone on record with how I know about this "ANGRY ANDY THEORY", I may go missing for a while, but if I go missing...at least you'll all know why. Never ever mess with Andy Reid. Lito Shephard, heed this warning. Behave yourself this year.

And if something happens to me, tell my family that I love them.

good night and good luck,

Tim and your Friends at PHILADELPHONIC

Ever see those rare TOM&JERRY episodes? The ones where, where, for once they weren't against each other, but they actually teamed up and put their differences aside, to solve a bigger problem? That's what it was like for me to cheer on the Giants in yesterday's playoff game.

Last week, the Dallas Cowboys vs New York Giants game was called by the press "a nightmare for an Eagles fan". Maybe the case, however, I've made my peace with the Philadelphia Eagles 2007 season, and I'm ready to move forward. However, I enjoy the playoffs, and I had to pick a team to root for in this game.

Now, it wasn't a tough decision, because I was so tired of hearing about Tony Romo at this point, all the press he'd get for everything from contract extensions to how much TO loves him, to his vacations, I was going to root for ELI MANNING for the first time. I looked to Eli, to get Tony Romo to go away for a little while.

This was all new. Now, for 3 hours, and 3 hours only, I was going to do the unthinkable.

I will cheer on Eli and the New York Giants.

First play, Eli throws it over everyone's head. It wasn't near anyone. WOW. Normally, I used to cheer when he'd do this. However for this 3 hours I said "c'mon Eli, get it together." And don't you know, the old boy DID get it together and drew first blood. Giants up 7-0.

Then it was Romo time, zipping one over to TO. Coughlin, will you challenge the play? Don't do it, TOM! Don't cost yourself a timeout! He did it anyway. I rolled my eyes. This could be a long 3 hours.

Dallas keeps the TD, the Giants lose a timeout. Marion Barber scores again. This could have gotten ugly.

When you don't like a division rival, it is okay to like one player on their team, for the Giants, I did like that Amani Toomer, and don't you know, right before the half, Amani tied the game up. Alright Eli, you're not embarrassing yourself, keep it going for another half.

When all was said an done, the Giants, played conservatively, Brandon Jacobs got into a tussle with Roy Williams (look out for the horse collar Brandon!) and, low and behold, The Giants pulled this one off. I rooted for the Giants for 3 hours, and they didn't let me down. Romo cried...

TO Cried....

....and Jessica Simpson was somehow blamed for all of this.

I didn't necessarily enjoy rooting for the Giants...but it certainly wasn't boring.

take care and be good,

Your Friends at Philadelphonic

Takeo Spikes is out for the year with a torn rotator cuff.

This is unfortunate, but not unexpected.

And this is all my fault.

See, I'm cursed when it comes to player jerseys. Anytime I take that leap of faith, I normally land on my face with a tremendous THUD.

It's now gotten to the point where friends and colleagues ask me to wear rival team's jerseys, just to see if my curse works.

Just for the record, it does work, just ask David Carr and Zinedine Zidane.

 Both solid athletes, both with levels of shame. I'm sorry to the both of you for ruining your careers. I wore the Zidane jersey during the world cup...now here's a guy who had a great career, but what's a big moment that he will be remembered for? The head butt. I take responsibility for this.  The curse crosses into other nations and also destroys their hopes and dreams.

Then came a time where I felt great, a few years ago, it felt like there was a wind of change. I went out, and hoping my luck would turn around, I bought a Terrell Owens Eagles jersey (going against my rule of wearing only defensive player jerseys ) and for the Phillies a number 25 of "Gentleman" Jim Thome.

For the first year of both the Jim Thome and Terrell Owens Philly era. It looked like the curse had been broken. But we know how that all ended.

The great Jim Thome, entered a few seasons of injury filled season with Philly, and although still loved by the city and fans, Jim Thome was traded to Chicago to give Ryan Howard the opportunity to play everyday (it was a good move, although you never ever like to see a guy like Jim Thome leave your city), in return we recived Aaron Rowand, Gio Gonzalez, and one more guy I can't remember. From that trade, what do we have remaining for giving up a future hall of famer? Nothing. the guy I can't remember was traded to Texas for a guy that was released after one start. Gio Gonzalez was traded back to Chicago for Freddy Garcia, who was a 10 million dollar bust here in Philly, and Aaron Rowand just signed a huge deal with San Francisco. So my Jim Thome curse? Went beyond Gentleman Jim, and even affected the players we recieved for him.

And Terrell Owens, need I even say it? Let's just say after coming back from a broken leg (my fault) taking the Eagles to the superbowl and losing (I wore an Eagles jersey...which is the game they lost by a field goal, also my fault) TO entered a ridiculous phase of his career which included his new agent Drew Rosenhaus demanding a new contract then saving a drowning child and saying that Philly should deal with him because he saves drowing children, then TO being banished, sit ups in his drive way and then released to sign with the Dallas Cowboys.

By the way, Jim Thome was traded around November 25th,2005 and TO was banished from Philadelphia around November 15th,2005. So within 10 days. I had two outdated and cursed Jerseys.

So, to all the TO fans and Jim Thome fans, their Philly departures, my fault.

I figured take a break on the jerseys. Until, the week before the draft in 2006, I saw an awesome Jevon Kearse one, I figured by going back to my "defensive jerseys" -only rule. It'd be perfectly fine and I'd wear it to attend the draft. This worked! We got Broderick Bunkley! The curse is over! WAIT! No it's not! Broderick Bunkley was a rookie camp "holdout" and then arrested for gun posession. Then Jevon Kearse was knocked out of the Giants game for the year. The curse never lets us down.

2007. Jevon is back. "I will continue wearing his jersey", plus...the Birds trade for Takeo Spikes. I've always been a Spikes fan....and Takeo came into town pumped up...talking big, making big predictions...I couldn't wait. The way Takeo was talking, it sounded like he was willing to play great D, practice all day and even on his own time, even take tickets at the door, sweep floors, sell concessions, anything to win. Takeo is big time. I needed his jersey. I got one.

Well here's 2007. Jevon Kearse has been deactivated because of his lackluster performance and even getting this quote "The Eagles signing Jevon Kearse was just like the Phillies trading for Kevin Millwood, it seeemed like a great idea....at the time" (I encouraged both of these transactions and take full responsibility for their respective failures)

December 17th 2007, Takeo Spikes out for the year with a torn rotator cuff. Rumor is that Takeo and Jevon may be cut in the off season.

So with that I'd like to apologize to the Spikes and Kearse camps. It's not you, it's me.

Now you may ask, where do all these cursed jerseys go? Sadly, because I have so many of them I hang them all up in my garage on what I call "the wall of shame" Eric Lindros Flyers? Check. Bobby Hoying Eagles? Check. Allen Iverson? Check (sorry AI, we miss you here), Gregg Jefferies Phillies? Check. There are so many more on the wall of shame. So many great potential difference makers, so many dissappointments. All my fault.

Next time, I buy a jersey, I'll run it by you all, so you can brace yourself for something horrible that will happen to the unfortunate player that I select.

Take care and be good,

Tim and all of your friends at Philadelphonic.

There is a lot to talk about in the Dallas Cowboys loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, and I'm sure among all of the blogs and all of the columns written, most of it will be covered. However yesterday marked an all time moment in something that maybe won't be mentioned today.

Ridiculous Troy Aikman commentary.

One good moment had him mentioning Terrell Owens. He said "You know TO, is doing a GREAT job today" This was in the 3rd quarter. TO didn't have a single catch until the 4th quarter, what was TO doing a great job of doing?

My favorite moment though, is when Tony Romo esacped a sack...to be met with this bit of Aikman commentary

"This is VINTAGE Tony Romo"

Really? Vintage?

It just goes with me being baffled that people are acting like Tony Romo has been in the league forever. If you're going to call Tony Romo vintage, then you have to refer to the hit 2006 film Borat as a "classic"...

 ...and let's not forget, Troy, about the first album that came out by that classic rock band "Daughtry", and of course the old time movie "Little Miss Sunshine". This was WAY back in the day when Tony Parker and Eva Longoria got engaged.

Tony Romo is a 2 year guy, he needs to be treated like a 2 year guy. He's not on par with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning yet, just like when he has awful games like Sunday's, keep in mind, he's a 2 year guy, there's no "vintage" Tony Romo yet. However, it's never a dull moment with Troy Aikman at the mic.

As we venture into the Green Bay/Dallas game tonight. We have the Romo/Favre face off. The Press is having a field day with it mentioning "old school versus new school". For me, I see Brett Favre a true great of the game, versus Tony Romo, a guy who, for now, has a pretty big contract. Time will tell on him.

However I see another level of this game.

Two guys we ALWAYS have to read about.... even when it's non football related. For the past 2 off seasons all it's been is "Brett Favre: Will he or Will he Not Retire?" just round the clock exposure.

And well Tony Romo, even all the grandparents know that he dates Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson, but I'm not sure if they know he has a job on Sundays.

So I turn it over to you, the readers...which athletes of any era do you hear about and think "why do I always have to hear about this person?"