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    I heard here and there (can't confirm, so take that FWIW) that Wilma McNabb was on Daily News Live and was asked about Donovan being sensitive. Her response was "What's wrong with being sensitive?" and then caught herself and said, "I'm not saying he is sensitive, he's a manly-man." Supposedly she also commented on the adversity that comes with DMac being a black quarterback.

    They seem like decent people, and this article's pretty civil, but I gotta admit, sometimes I wish athlete relatives didn't talk about sports. I'm sure that DMac can handle tough questions, but sometimes the attention's just a pain in the neck, whether it's Sam & Wilma McNabb, Brenda Warner, Carl Lindros................

    I can just imagine opposing defenders trying to get on McNabb's nerves after he throws his next pick, saying, "You going to get your mother to defend you again?" or "Momma's boy threw another pick!" or something like that. It's football after all, most of the football guys I knew wouldn't miss the chance.




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    DOTCOMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

    Wilma McNabb said she blogged from the heart and was sorry it brought scrutiny on her son

    By LES BOWEN
    [email protected]

    MIAMI - It's tricky, being the parents of a franchise quarterback, in what might be America's most overheated football media market.

    Wilma and Sam McNabb have always been proud to play a visible role in their son Donovan's life, proud to show America the kind of solid, thoughtful, middle-class background that not every athlete in the spotlight possesses.

    But lately, they have seen the downside of involved parenting. When you express opinions, and your son is 30 years old, it opens the door for your son's critics to infer that he is weak, especially if your son remains silent. And never mind how unfair that might be.

    "If people perceive it that way, I think it's an injustice," Wilma McNabb said last night, right after addressing the same subject on Comcast SportsNet's "Daily News Live." "We're not the only parents that follow our sons. I see the Mannings are with their sons. I know them. I know the Waynes, Reggie Wayne's parents. As I told people, when we travel from game to game, we know the parents we're going to see - we see Dhani Jones' parents and Brian Westbrook's parents. We're all that way. It's just that Donovan is in the news all the time, and then I'm doing the Chunky Soup [appearances and commercials], so they see us out a lot.

    "He is a family man, he has a wife and a child. If you perceive [weakness] because we support him, then I think that is an injustice."

    On camera and then after the "DNL" appearance, Wilma McNabb said that while she doesn't regret anything she said in a much-discussed blog entry a little more than a month ago on DonovanMcNabb.com, she regrets bringing even greater scrutiny to bear on Donovan. Her words were parsed as coded signals from the Eagles' quarterback, who hasn't spoken at length in public since suffering a season-ending knee injury on Nov. 19.

    McNabb and the Eagles public relations department decided he wouldn't speak until after the season ended, to not be a distraction to the team. Then, just before a scheduled news conference was to take place, the week after the Eagles were eliminated from the playoffs by the Saints, coach Andy Reid canceled the appearance, saying he felt McNabb needed to concentrate on his rehab. McNabb is scheduled to make a series of appearances today in Miami, as he does every Super Bowl week, on behalf of Campbell's Chunky Soup. To Philadelphia-area reporters, McNabb's breaking his silence today looms as a bigger story than the game itself.

    "What I said in my blog was from my heart, it was my thoughts," she said. "What bothered me the most was that it got the attention it got. I really didn't think anybody was readin' it - I've been blogging for the past year, when I leave a game, and what have you. I've been doing it in different manners, however I felt. I just got my own Web site [MamaMcNabb.com] and I was doing something on Donovan's to get it going... That's the thing, the attention that it got. I apologize to Donovan that it got such a big hoopla, but what I said was what I felt."

    What Wilma McNabb wrote, as the Eagles won their final five regular-season games and captured the NFC East title, was that the team's success was "bitter sweet," because her son was missing it. She also wondered aloud about how fans might react to winning a Super Bowl with Jeff Garcia at quarterback, and whether that would spark talk of trading Donovan. Over the past month, with Donovan not talking, those musings have fostered speculation about Donovan not wanting Garcia to return. Garcia, who turns 37 on Feb. 24, is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent.

    Wilma McNabb said last night that she understood the Eagles are unlikely to trade her son because some fans might be excited about Garcia. She said she was only worried about Donovan having to deal with even more offseason media uproar and unpleasantness, on the heels of the Terrell Owens mess.

    "I said, 'Will they crucify him' in the media," she said. "I meant it could be an unpleasant situation. It would just be another media fiasco."

    After her "Daily News Live" interview, Wilma kept the earpiece on for a minute or so, listening to what the panelists had to say about her in the wake of her appearance. Finally, she removed it and handed it to a technician.

    What did she hear?

    That "it was a learning experience for me, and I probably won't do that again," she said, smiling. "That's what they said."
    "Philly fans are great....It's the only place where you pull up on the bus and you've got the grandfather, the grandmother, the kids and the grandkids - everybody flicking you off. At other stadiums, they give you the thumbs-down. Here, they give you the middle finger.”
    — Michael Strahan

    "No one likes us, no one likes us, no one likes us, we don’t care, we’re from Philly, F—-ing Philly, No one likes us, we don’t care!”
    - Jason Kelce with the best championship speech ever

  • #2
    this is so fascinating that I wish you would post it three times.

    just bustin your balls.

    on the other board they have 5 pages of angry responses ripping McNabb and his parents.

    I find the whole thing a waste of freakin time. They are parents and they respond just like parents would. Is Donovan sensitive? Probably. No different than every other athlete in any sport in the world (save for hired hitmen or hitwomen) IMHO.

    I'm just not sure how this matters on the field on Sundays as a professional QB

    but since we are on the sensitive issue. Why don't you give me a list of professional athletes that you believe are not sensitive.

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    • #3
      head on, apply directly to the forehead

      head on, apply directly to the forehead

      head on, apply directly to the forehead

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      • #4
        balto- I deleted the duplicates of this post so we can have a single conversation about this. I didn't see the Wilma interview but last night when I saw that she was scheduled to be on I looked at my wife and said "Why do we have to hear this idiot talk again?" Seriously, her son is the celebrity - not her. No one cares if she made some Chunky Soup commercials - again she only got that opportunity because her son is a celebrity. Someone needs to shut her up and send her back to Chicago where she belongs!
        Official Driver of the Eagles Bandwagon!!!
        Bleedin' Green since birth!

        "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Mike Willey

        ”Enjoy The Ride!!!” - Bob Marcus

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        • #5
          Juke, do you blame her or the media in this city that chases her down so they can get a story and twist it to make it bigger than it is?

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          • #6
            Just trade the guy....

            We give up...the media and idiots win...please leave us in peace and save us from this never-ending nightmare...
            Eliminate distractions, create energy, fear nothing, and attack everything.

            -Andy Reid

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            • #7
              bring in a QB that doesn't have parents, doesn't have a beef with TO and isn't african american,

              and oh yeah, make him non sensitive please

              thanks

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              • #8
                It's really both. It's partially her fault simply because she considers herself a celebrity and acts like people give a damn about what she thinks. She interjects herself into her sons events and is far too quick to offer up her opinion. On the other hand the media has found someone willing to open their mouths so they force feed us ever word she utters and book her on shows that give her the opportunity. If they ignored her - she'd go away. If she had a clue how she hurts her sons image, she'd go away. If Donovan had some balls and told her to shut up and stay out of the media, she'd go away. But none of that will happen. Her 15 minutes of fame is now going on three days and we'll just have to do what the media can't seem to do - ignore her.
                Official Driver of the Eagles Bandwagon!!!
                Bleedin' Green since birth!

                "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Mike Willey

                ”Enjoy The Ride!!!” - Bob Marcus

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by ekravitz
                  head on, apply directly to the forehead

                  head on, apply directly to the forehead

                  head on, apply directly to the forehead
                  hahaha.

                  Look, I said it before: athletes' parents shouldnt be in the public eye... nothing good ever comes out of it. She mentions the Waynes and the Westbrooks... does anyone here have any idea what either of their moms look like? As for the Chunky Soup commercials, Matt Hasselbeck doesn't have this kind of scrutiny. It might be because he plays in Seattle but it always could be that HIS MOM DOESNT BLOG.

                  I'm not picking on McNabb. Can anyone think of a situation where parents opening their mouths helped anything? The Lindrosses? Allen Iverson's mom? Drew Brees mom? Countless tennis dads.

                  People will say Les Bowen and whoever wrote that first article about "bittersweet" started it all... but if you don't give em anything to begin with, they got nothing to write. Athletes' parents should learn to speak in cliches and sit home and count their cash. Go to games and support your son/daughter but they shouldn't ever be heard.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by sfphillyfan
                    Originally posted by ekravitz
                    head on, apply directly to the forehead

                    head on, apply directly to the forehead

                    head on, apply directly to the forehead
                    hahaha.

                    Look, I said it before: athletes' parents shouldnt be in the public eye... nothing good ever comes out of it. She mentions the Waynes and the Westbrooks... does anyone here have any idea what either of their moms look like? As for the Chunky Soup commercials, Matt Hasselbeck doesn't have this kind of scrutiny. It might be because he plays in Seattle but it always could be that HIS MOM DOESNT BLOG.

                    I'm not picking on McNabb. Can anyone think of a situation where parents opening their mouths helped anything? The Lindrosses? Allen Iverson's mom? Drew Brees mom? Countless tennis dads.

                    People will say Les Bowen and whoever wrote that first article about "bittersweet" started it all... but if you don't give em anything to begin with, they got nothing to write. Athletes' parents should learn to speak in cliches and sit home and count their cash. Go to games and support your son/daughter but they shouldn't ever be heard.
                    I agree. Nothing good ever comes out of things like this. It's time for Momma McNabb to vanish for a long time.
                    FRESH > cancer

                    I hate everything the Cowboys stand for. If you think they are America's team, then you support everything that is wrong with America. The excess, the greed, the lack of maturity, the lack of responsibility, the lack of control. - Luzinski's Gut

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                    • #11
                      Exactly right Vin! She is far worse than any of the other parents she's listing here. Se created a website for herself and was using Donovan's celebrity to launch hers. She thinks she's a celebrity and the media seems to have taken the "give her enough rope" approach. If you stick a microphone in her face she's going to say something stupid and help them sell papers or gain ratings as they spin it into a story. They pump it up and she pimps it out. It's a match made in heaven ... or is it hell?
                      Official Driver of the Eagles Bandwagon!!!
                      Bleedin' Green since birth!

                      "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Mike Willey

                      ”Enjoy The Ride!!!” - Bob Marcus

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                      • #12
                        I could give a fucking rat's ass about the comments from the parents of professional athletes and more often than not the comments from professional athletes themselves.

                        That's all I have to say on this topic.

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                        • #13
                          I think Stephen Colbert said something along the lines of you put a camera in front of something and they immediately go retarded. I think he called it a lobotomy.

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                          • #14
                            Duplicates? - what, that post went up more than once? WTF?

                            Well anyway, I've seen this talked about on the other board, and on the EMB, I posted it here cuz I was wondering what a rational discussion on this subject would sound like. The responses sound about right.......
                            "Philly fans are great....It's the only place where you pull up on the bus and you've got the grandfather, the grandmother, the kids and the grandkids - everybody flicking you off. At other stadiums, they give you the thumbs-down. Here, they give you the middle finger.”
                            — Michael Strahan

                            "No one likes us, no one likes us, no one likes us, we don’t care, we’re from Philly, F—-ing Philly, No one likes us, we don’t care!”
                            - Jason Kelce with the best championship speech ever

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                            • #15
                              I did see the interview and I have no idea what the reaction has been, but from what I saw, if anybody had a negative take or tried to blow it up in some negaitve way ------------- they were reaching verrrrrrrry hard to do so.

                              It was fine, and she answered all the non football related questions asked of her, in an honest and open manner------- the media could take the hint!


                              Mountains from mohehills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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