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What kind of sports fan would drop well over a hundred dollars for the jersey of their hated rival? An Eagles fan with a deviant idea, of course.

One loyal Birds fan who contributes to Bleeding Green Nation thought it would be a good idea to purchase a Tony Romo jersey and have it altered a bit. He writes about putting the jersey on for the first time:

i almost threw up ... im dead serious ... my gag reflex kicked in like 3 times putting it over my head but i still didnt have second thoughts of my purchase ... and i want to know the oppinions of you guys would you honestly rather have romo then mcnabb ?

Now, we're sensing a tinge of sarcasm from our fellow Eagles fan.

Follow the jump to see the final product with the custom name clearly displayed.

As Wade Phillips prepares to open his second training camp as the Dallas Cowboys' head coach, Dallas Morning News columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor has an unpleasant message for him: It will be your last. Taylor says of Phillips:

He'll either take this team loaded with talent and win the Super Bowl and ride off into the sunset afterward. Or the Cowboys will fall short of their goal, and Jerry Jones will give him a golden parachute to leave so he can promote Jason Garrett.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is obviously enamored with offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and obviously envisions Garrett as a future Cowboys head coach, but I'm not so sure that Jones wants to get rid of Phillips that quickly. Jones basically wants two things out of a head coach:

1. Win more games than you lose.
2. Let me call most of the shots.

Phillips qualifies on both counts, and as long as he keeps qualifying on both counts, I don't see Jones pressuring him into leaving. But it says a lot about the Cowboys that Phillips enters the 2008 season with at least one local columnist saying that whatever he does, he's out of a job in seven months.

As fellow FanHouse-r Ryan Wilson told you earlier, the Dallas Cowboys and receiver Terry Glenn are reportedly back talking again and trying to mend some fences. Glenn and the team have been at odds for most of the offseason.

Glenn is now saying all the right things, including wanting to stay a Cowboy:

"I want [Cowboys owner] Jerry [Jones] to understand that I know he has the ultimate power in everything that goes on with the Cowboys, and I'm not trying to challenge him in any way, shape or form," Glenn told Werder earlier this month. "He can -- and will -- determine the outcome of this because it's ultimately his decision. But what I want is to remain a Cowboy. I've been here for five years and I've made Dallas my home, and I would love nothing more than to be a Dallas Cowboy."

Being humble to the owner is always a great start and stroking Jones ego is always advisable. This is a long way since the two sides were bickering about an alleged injury settlement. Even Jones thinks the notion that Glenn is challenging him is wrong.

"It isn't my will against Terry's," Jones said. "That's ridiculous."

So we could have this thing wrapped up in the next month, just in time for training camp, eh?

The whole Don Imus/Adam "Pacman" Jones uproar didn't last very long, did it? It was like one minute everyone was getting upset, and the next minute everyone was asking, "Why should we care what this guy says?" Even Al Sharpton seems to have moved on.

But Jason Whitlock has a column at FoxSports.com in which he argues that while we shouldn't care about Imus, it actually is worth addressing the point that Imus claimed he was trying to make in asking "What color" Jones is.

Don Imus claims he was trying to defend Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones when he responded to a report about Jones arrest record by asking, "What color is he?" But Jones himself doesn't appreciate what Imus said.

The Dallas Morning News reports that Jones had this reaction when told what Imus said:

"I'm truly upset about the comments," Jones said. "Obviously Mr. Imus has problems with African-Americans. I'm upset, and I hope the station he works for handles it accordingly. I will pray for him."

WABC, the radio station that syndicates Imus, has said it accepts Imus's explanation and will not discipline him. Imus was fired from his last job for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."

Don Imus spoke out on his radio show today about his comments yesterday regarding Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones. Here's the audio:

Talking about police treatment of Jones, who has been arrested several times, Imus said, "What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason. There's no reason to arrest this kid six times, I mean maybe he did something once but everybody does something once -- I have. ... They shoot blacks for no reason."

Imus later added, "I know there's some people who want to get me, but you're not going to get me for this. It's ridiculous."

With another controversy about racially tinged remarks swirling around Don Imus, the radio jock has offered an explanation for his latest comments.

On today's show, Imus and on-air partner Warner Wolf were discussing Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones and his long arrest record. Imus asked Wolf, "What color is he" and when Wolf said Jones is African-American, Imus said, "Well, there you go. Now we know."

This morning Don Imus responded to a report on his radio show about Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones' legal troubles by asking, "What color is he."

Within hours, Al Sharpton had issued this statement:

"I find the inference of his remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes. Any use of stereotypes is always counterproductive. We will determine in the next day or so whether or not his remark warrants direct action on our part as we did in April of last year."

The action in April of last year that Sharpton refers to was his group's organized boycott of Imus and his sponsors, which eventually resulted in the cancellation of Imus in the Morning. He was off the air for several months before ABC Radio Networks brought him back late last year.

UPDATE: Don Imus says, "I meant he was being picked on because he's black".
UPDATE 2: Don Imus claims he was defending Adam "Pacman" Jones against racist cops.

Don Imus, the radio jock who was fired last year for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos," has once again put his foot in his mouth in comments related to the world of sports. Pro Football Talk passes along the audio:

When one of Imus's on-air partners, Warner Wolf, discussed Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones' legal troubles, Imus asked, "What color is he." When told that Jones is African-American, Imus said, "Well, there you go. Now we know."

The full transcript is below.

It's still not completely clear why wide receiver Terrell Owens is not attending the Cowboys' mandatory three-day minicamp this week, but the Cowboys' brass insists that it's nothing to be concerned about.

Coach Wade Phillips said after he stepped off the practice field that it might actually be good for the team to get the younger players more reps:

"Him missing some time is not a big deal," Phillips said, "especially a veteran player that knows how to play and do the things and has worked as hard as he had during the offseason. We wouldn't have given him as many reps anyway in the minicamp, because we want to take care of those [veteran] guys and make sure they're ready."

Things sure have changed for Owens in a few years; when he was in Philadelphia whether or not Owens would report to minicamp was the biggest story in football. Phillips is probably right that Owens' absence doesn't make much of a difference.