Even all the snow blowing and swirling around the stadium couldn’t keep these Eagles fans away.  The wind is so strong, it has blown one overweight gentleman’s shirt clean off his body, but it appears he had a firm grip on his beer, so all is not lost.  Yet.

Jerramy Stevens, Seattle’s tight end catches four passes in the first 2:30, after getting no catches at all last week against the Giants.  The look on his face shows his surprise.  A graphic tells us that Stevens was born in Olympia, Washington, matriculated at the University of Washington, and now, of course, plays in Seattle.  Guess he likes rain.  I hope he travels in the off-season.

Seattle moves the ball very well on their opening drive, chewing up over eight minutes of clock.  The fatigue of the Eagles ‘D’ is clearly shown on the touchdown pass to Bobby Engram.  Hasselbeck had so much time back there, it looked like the Eagles were counting ‘Steamboats’.  7-0, Seattle.

I always enjoy the bit where the players introduce themselves.  Who’s going to give themselves the embarrassing nickname ( Shaun Andrews, Hollis ‘Big Tank’ Thomas), who is going to name their high school instead of their college (Lofa Tatapu, who actually slighted not one, but two colleges, as he attended both Maine and USC) and who…are these guys on the left side of the Eagles line?  I’m not familiar with the work of Messrs. Herremans and Clarke.  Big John Madden says he saw them in practice, and they’re not slouches.  We’ll see.

Andre Dyson steps in front of Greg Lewis for a pick, and Lewis, who is reputed to be fast, doesn’t even put a half-assed effort into running him down.  More like a third- or quarter-assed.  It’s now 14-0 Seattle.

Sean Landeta is punting for the Eagles tonight.  So, if he gets hurt, is Ray Guy the next number on Andy Reid’s rolodex?  Landeta is 43 years old, while Seattle’s young punter, Tom Rouen, is a spry 37 years old.  There are a lot of punts between these two guys.

Mike McMahon does not look comfortable throwing the ball.  He’s overthrowing these fast wide receivers he’s got, and then a soft toss to L.J. Smith gets picked off by Tatapu, who promptly runs it back for a score.  21-0 Seahawks, and we’re only three and a half minutes into the second quarter.  The Philly fans are getting restless, and so am I.

Seattle is 1-7 since 2003 in games they have played in the Eastern time zone, but 27-8 in all others.  Hmmm.

Hasselbeck told Al & John that his first and second favorite receivers on the Seahawks are both Bobby Engram.  Which would explain why that even after Joe Jurevicius’ two TD performance last week, Matt’s hardly looking his way at all, except to berate him as they walk off the field after Jurevicius couldn’t haul in an uncatchable pass from Hasselbeck on third down.

With about five and a half minutes left, Koy Detmer steps in for McMahon, and on the second play from scrimmage Michael Boulware returns an interception to the Eagles 2.  Seattle hands the ball to Alexander on the very next play, and it’s 28-0. (Seattle, for those of you not following too closely.)

More canonization of Reggie White from Madden and Michaels.  They claim the reason he left the Eagles to come to Green Bay in 1993, was that he saw great potential in Green Bay, and their quarterback, Brett Favre.  I think the fact that Green Bay made him the third-highest paid player in the league behind Elway and Marino probably had a little bit to do with it as well.

It’s 35-0 at the half, but it won’t stay like that for long.  Ryan Moats commits a ghastly looking fumble, and Andre Dyson is in the right place once again.  He easily runs through Moats’ one-handed attempt to grab his jersey, and it’s (sigh) 42-0.  We have over fourteen minutes to play in the third quarter.  Eagles fans start filing out to go catch Letterman.

I’ll spare you the mundane details of the rest of the game.  Seattle benched most of their starters, Westbrook got hurt, and the Eagles never were able to get on the board.

It concludes as the most one-sided victory in the history of Monday Night Football, as the Eagles are humiliated on national television by the Seahawks, 42-0.