Nick is back. We talk about, what else, Mark McGwire. For more, read my take yesterday at The Sporting Blog.

More Football Talk:

Andy Reid announced yesterday that Donovan McNabb is the quarterback of the Eagles and will be the quarterback of the Eagles next year. How long that feeling lasts is obviously up for debate (for the record, we believe him).

First, there aren’t that many teams who would trade for a guy like McNabb, and of those teams who could use a veteran quarterback as a final piece to a championship puzzle (namely Minnesota or Arizona if their gray-bearded signal-callers retire), why would the Eagles want to trade McNabb to a team they’ll likely face in the playoffs? It’s AFC or lower-tier NFC team if you ask me. And he had a great year (for him) statistically, so why get rid of him now? Just for the change of pace? That’s not the Eagles style.

Nick does, however, point out that all of this posturing by Reid isn’t to deceive the media or the fans. It’s to deceive the other teams. Why come out now and say you want to trade McNabb? You’ll just end up devaluing his tradeability.

Political Safari:

This situation in Angola is out of control. Now Togo, which lost three members of their team, including their media relations director, is being excluded from the Africa Cup of Nations because they want to properly mourn for the loss of their people. No, the games must go on, so they are out.

Should they postpone the event? Cancel it? Just play on? What would we do here if it were a team in the NFL playoffs? And honestly, as crazy and rabid as we think we are as sports fans, we have nothing on the rest of the world.

Housekeeping:

We talk about the Flyers getting hosed on a goal because FSN Pittsburgh didn’t send the replay THAT SHOWED THE GOAL to the league offices. Once it was ruled ‘no goal’ FSN showed on TV the replay that proved it was, in fact, a goal. The league is looking into it.

It does illustrate the fact that replay is solely predicated on technology and namely the television feed of the game. The more cameras or the higher definition, the better the ability to review a play. So does that mean that games that won’t get as good a ratings – say in the NFL specifically – are at a disadvantage when it comes to replay?

Matt Ufford from Warming Glow and KSK on tomorrow. Thanks for listening.