Playoffs!?

Crazy to see that the Eagles are eliminated from the wildcard but at 6-8 still have a decent shot at winning the division. My friend Scott puts the odds of everything breaking the Eags way - winning the last two games, the Giants losing this week, and beating the Cowgirls next week - at 50%. Not great odds but ones you would certainly take a week ago.

My brother and I started to talk logistics of a playoff game (I know we're getting ahead of ourselves, but still).

In any case, have the Eagles sent any info out about playoff tickets because as a division winner they would host a game in the first round of the playoffs? Complicating things is that Monday is a national holiday so that the earliest a letter could go out to season ticket holders is Tuesday the 27th. And then the ticketholders' response would be delayed by the next national holiday on Monday, January 2nd. Which wouldn't give the team much time to turn around such ticket orders because it's entirely possible the Eagles could play on SATURDAY, January 7th.

Compounding the sensitivity and logistics of the issue are: 1) Reid fatigue. 2) Asking ticketholders to pony up for playoff tickets at a time when said team will still have a losing record. 3) The fact that the team doesn't refund playoff ticket payments but applies them to next year's bill and 4) and a not insignificant point, as a division winner the Eagles have the possibility of hosting the NFC Championship so the ticket appeal is for payment for TWO playoff games - a situation that only reinforces points 2 and 3.

Anyway, here's hoping that everything breaks the Eagles way today. They may not make the playoffs when everything is said and done, but it would be a fun week to see Cowboys fans catatonic, Giants fans despairing of another late season collapse, Eagles fans euphoric that a season which was lost 2 months ago could yield a playoff berth, and national attention to the possibility that the previously written off Eagles could be playoff bound.

Awesome!

Happy holidays.