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McNabb: Black on black crime on the rise

In case you haven’t seen or read Donovan McNabb’s interview with Michael Smith on ESPN, let me break it down for you.


  • Donovan claims the deterioration of his relationship with TO started as early as week 12 of the 2004 season.
  • TO never challenged McNabb during Owen’s altercation with Hugh Douglas in the locker room.
  • This season “everybody turned into superstars…Some guys don’t work hard.”
  • Donovan doth protest too much: “I think the team was divided,” McNabb said. “As far as him taking the team from me, no, I don’t think so. I never felt that way. … I didn’t feel like I lost the team. I did feel like, ‘I am the leader of the team,’ and I am the leader of the team. But when you see guys talk in little cliques and guys not all being together, and you hear guys talk about somebody else, that bothers you a little bit.”
  • He still holds a grudge, even if he says he doesn’t: “That nobody really came to my defense, that showed me a lot. That nobody came out to say he’s wrong in the media when somebody asks you a question, it was like, ‘That’s his situation, that’s been them, his contract, I think Donovan has handled it well…’ Come out and say, ‘It should not have happened. That was wrong. This is Donovan’s team.’ Again, I’ll always remember what happened.”

The most draw-dropping quote however is when Donovan compared TO saying that the Eagles would be undefeated with Favre at the helm as “black on black crime”.


It was definitely a slap in the face to me. Because as deep as people won’t go into it, it was [a] black-on-black crime. I mean, you have a guy that has been criticized just about all his career and now the last criticism is that I’m selling out because I don’t run anymore.

Now, TO’s comment about Favre was idiotic but certainly not racially motivated. TO was merely responding to a comment made by Michael Irvin, he did not bring up Brett Favre as an example. For a self proclaimed leader, McNabb certainly is very thin skinned. McNabb keeps talking about how he kept his mouth shut during the whole TO fiasco. Perhaps he should have kept it shut a little longer.

[ESPN]: McNabb: T.O. situation was about money, power

By Vin

Vin is a Philly boy who shouldn't be invited into your house because he'll judge you on your book and music collection. He owns Dawkins, Utley, Iverson, and Lindros jerseys, which is all you really need to know about him. He can be reached at [email protected].

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