[FONT=times new roman,times]But in all fairness to Sen. Specter, perhaps we can accept his denial of any motivation connected with one out of thousand of his campaign contributors. The actual root cause of Sen.Specter's mischief making is probably far simpler, adhering to the principle of Occam's Razor. He's just another disgruntled and bitter Philadelphia sports fan fed up with the longest championship draught in sports franchise history of any major American city. Sen. Specter is the perfect yahoo to represent the city suffering the ignominy of being the first professional sports team city in America to lose 10,000 games. [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Who other than the fandom in Philadelphia would boo Santa Claus, cheer the Dallas Cowboy's wide receiver Michael Irvin's career ending spinal cord injury and commit such a backlog of lawlessness and rowdyism at Veteran's Stadium to warrant setting up a Municipal Court in the stadium basement on game day. Who but Philly sports fans would charter buses to attend the NFL draft in NY City just to boo the Eagles' selection of quarterback Donovan McNabb -- who finally brought the Eagles to its second Super Bowl appearance in 50 years -- rather than their heartthrob the pot smoking Hamlet wannabe running back Ricky Williams. Who but the Philly faithful would toss handfuls of triple A batteries at baseball outfielder JD Drew because he had the temerity to reject being drafted by the baseball Phillies and play for the St Louis Cardinals instead.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Philly sports fans and Sen. Specter, their unofficial capo-di-capi and regular weekly caller to Philly sports talk radio, reserve their most intense hatred for Boston sports teams. The modern era jealousy started in 1965 when the Celtics John Havlicek stole the ball from the 76ers' Hal Greer in the waning seconds of the 7th game of the Eastern Conference NBA basketball finals. If Sen. Specter had been around then he would have launched a Senate investigation into the sleaze ball tactics of the Celtics' legendary coach Red Auerbach, who would set up the visitors locker room in the Boston Garden so they only had cold water for showers and no heat during the winter. Auerbach rigged dead spots and loose boards in the Garden parkay floor, laid right on top of the permanent ice for the Boston Bruins hockey team and only the Celtics knew how the ball would really bounce. [/FONT]
