[poekfpojoibien]

Just be thankful you don't have that fat arrogant asshole coaching your favorite football team.

Ummm...

well, actually...

[actioliGalm]

Just be thankful you don't have that fat arrogant asshole coaching your favorite football team.

Preds is an Eagles fan.

This is just a case of selective journalism. Makes the story better if they paint Reid as the bad guy but to say he was singling Akers out is a stretch. The "we can all count, the points would have helped" comment came in response to this question:

How important the two missed field goals were to the outcome of the game?

Even out of context of the question this is a stretch.

[Ekrbcbvh]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-314339

This really made me mad when I read it. Kudos to Fletcher. Reid is an ass.


Parts of the article:

If you wondered why Philadelphia Eagles kicker David Akers(notes) had an uncharacteristically bad day against the Green Bay Packers in Philly's 21-16 wild-card round loss, wonder no more. Akers missed two field goals in the game, 41-yard and 34-yard attempts that each went wide right and could have made that game a different story, but he had a lot on his mind. The news broke today on Philly.com that Akers and his wife, Erika, had discovered two days before the game that their six-year-old daughter Halley had a growth in her right ovary that might require removal of the ovary before the growth spread.


What really hurt Akers was that Eagles head coach Andy Reid, who was aware of the condition of Akers' daughter, pointed out Akers' performance after the game ("We can all count. Those points would have helped," Reid said after the game). Certainly understandable under normal circumstances, but borderline unforgiveable with these conditions in mind. It would have been just as easy for Reid to give the usual "coachspeak" answer that it takes 53 guys to win or lose a game, and it seemed mean-spirited in retrospect for Akers' coach to single him out. Especially since Reid has had so many family problems of his own.




One day after the loss to the Packers, the Akers family got the news - Halley did have a malignant tumor that would have to be removed. Two weeks later, doctors have told Halley's mom and dad that they got the tumor in time, and that barring something showing up in the frequent checkups she'll obviously have to undergo through the next year and beyond, the news is positive.



Whether Akers, who is scheduled to be a free agent in 2011, goes back the Eagles or not is a matter of conjecture, but despite his role in that playoff loss, you'll have to excuse him for feeling like a winner at this point - and for all the right reasons. Eagles special teams coach Bobby April checked in on the family, and Redskins linebacker London Fletcher(notes) (who's long been one of the classiest guys in the league) made a point to meet Halley during Pro Bowl practice.



Certainly Reid has enough time on his hands to make sure everything's okay with the Akers family, but the article didn't cite any examples of such concern. We can only hope the omission is in the coverage and not the effort.

[mr.supervideogoodfd]

And I screwed up. I thought I was putting it in the Eagles forum.

Oh well, so be it. It's Football.

[RagonaCon]

Just be thankful you don't have that fat arrogant asshole coaching your favorite football team.

[RafaelYV]

Hopefully she'll be able to have a long, healthy, happy life. A girl here on the Milwaukee Panthers women's soccer team had something similar happen to her about 7 years ago, before she entered high school. She won't be able to have kids but she is healthy and has been cancer free for 7 years. Oh and she's also a star athlete who lead the nation in goals scored her freshman and sophomore years, and was second last year. She broke the school and conference record for career goals this past fall as a junior and was on the US U-23 National Team last summer.