Dr Dick's Report 12.5.11

     I was gonna talk about Andy Reid, but first I wanna talk about my daughter Julia! She went out to Somerset PA over the weekend and won the "Miss Laurel Highlands" Title for Miss America Outstanding Teen! She has been competing in pageants for a while now and I feel it has really helped her to be a strong, confident young woman........I really can't explain how proud I am of her....

 This is a picture of her with the "Miss" winners, they are the girls over 18............... She is now qualified to compete for the state title in May 2012..............

                                                                                           

     So Andy Reid, I'm with all of you, it's time for him to go, but! Let me give you youngsters a little history about Philly sports. The last time the Eagles won an NFL Championship (Super Bowl before it was called that) was 1960! I was three years old, I went to my first game at Franklin Field and saw the Giants against the Eagles and the Giants had the first ever soccer style kicker on their team, Pete Gogolak.......... Over the years the Eagles were pretty much one of those teams that allowed the good teams to get a lot of wins (Like Ole Miss and Rice in college ball), they had lousy coaches like Joe Kuharik and Rich Kotite and lousy owners like leonard Tose who gambled all his money away! Then for a couple of years with Quarterback Ron Jaworski and Coach Dick Vermeil they finally went to a Super Bowl in 1980 and lost to a team they handled (Raiders) during the regular season. Then they were bad again. Randall Cunningham and Buddy Ryan made things interesting, but really they were never a powerhouse team......... Then Andy Reid came aboard with new owner Jeffrey Laurie and the Eagles became a winning franchise! I know we all want a super bowl victory and it doesn't look like Andy will ever bring one, but let's not look at him as a bad coach, because he hasn't been. His record is 122-81 and 10-9 in playoffs, not to shabby, many people with lessor records are considered genius's! I believe Reid should be kicked upstairs, as a team they are always under the salary cap, always have a lot of draft picks, and are able to sign free agents, and Reid has been a big part of that. But his penchant for challenging calls that were correct, poor time management, and failure to use the run, when he has great runners, does not keep opposing defenses honest against his pass a lot theory...........I guess my point is, once he's gone I will remember him as a winning coach, who couldn't win the big one......................

       I saw this what looks to be a memorial for someone who was maybe killed on a bicycle and found it interesting.........

     I was in New York City for most of the day today, and i go there a lot as I have been a Limo driver for almost 20 months now and i must say no matter what time of day or time of year I still get a thrill when I see the skyline, we don't realize that we have the greatest city in the world right in our backyard, less than a hundred miles away...............

                                       Later.................... "Dr Dick Wilkins

Sorry this a little bumpy yet, I've just returned to writing, so give a brother a chance................................................................................