These recent weeks of the Eagles/Phillies extraordinarily rare, unusually awesome and unparalleled performances are for me, causing some agita.

Yeah, I know they’ve both climbed into the top tier of their respective sports and have been comfortably situated there for some time now but I remember when they were perennial cellar dwellers; or at least not far from it for so long a Bulletin sports columnist once wrote a piece way back then that explained the situation will only be changed when the organizations ( my memory is not so sharp in this 21st century ) but I think he was writing about both the Phillies and the  Eagles because the Eagles,  despite them winning the 1960 NFL championship, most of the time they were mediocre,  https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/index.htm which is likely the reason why modern day fans are so rabid. That was a pretty boring won-loss record back then to compare against the team led for three years by Norm Van Brocklin.

That story the sport’s columnist wrote suggested aliens contacted the teams officials and told them they, the aliens, were controlling the games and unless the team owners came up with what they demanded the teams would continue playing in the dismal fashion they were locked into if their terms weren’t accepted.

I expected and looked for a  hah hah gotcha retraction but never saw one;  because of this   and   this  I’m thinking, if that story was true, the terms might have been accepted . I’m also thinking maybe the light years distance might have played into the delayed results and the over achievements are like accrued interest payout.

But my agita, based on what the forgotten sport’s columnist wrote back in the late 50’s, could be viewed on the one hand as a comically  apocryphal reaction if the alleged aliens were gambling  travelers  of the universe like the Chinese gamblers who travel the globe looking for a good game and a hospitable suite .

On the other hand  they can be straight up Apocryphal visitors from Hell with interests ranging from competitive eating to combative tailgaters; and if they merge their interests we could find ourselves dealing with tail gators equipped with gator tails.

All that from a long ago Philadelphia sports columnist with a strange message that was turned into a mind stretching exercise in preparation for the next post.

This is the theme…

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/2-Corinthians-11-13_11-15/