Dan Wetzel is an award-winning sportswriter, author and screenwriter. He has covered all levels of basketball as well as college football, the NFL, MLB and NHL.

He also makes sense when it comes to Philly’s Donovan McNabb:

Yet there’s a strange juxtaposition with McNabb. (And with him, isn’t there always something?) He’s a sympathetic and popular figure all across America. Except in one town – Philadelphia.

Philadelphia fans get a bad rap. They’re painted as unreasonable and nasty when intense and demanding is more accurate. They are forever dealing with the day back in the 1960s when some people booed Santa Claus (who may have been drunk and deserved it).

Whatever. If you’re going to label Philly fans dogs, then at least acknowledge that while they can be as mean as pit bulls, they’re also as loyal as golden retrievers.

The Eagles would never need extra time to sell out a playoff game to avoid a local blackout as Arizona did two weeks ago. Never.

That about says it. It’s the same across the board, The Flyers, The Phillies, The Eagles, the list goes on and on…