Brent Celek is the tough tight end for the Eagles. Off to a gaudy start this year with 22 catches in three games. Susie, on a scale of X, is an XI. Yesterday was their first anniversary. They spent it the way your average couple next door spends it . . .
Susie worked out at Joe Hand's gym throwing left hooks at the heavy bag . . . Brent did his heavy lifting on "Daily News Live" on Comcast SportsNet, carrying three guys the way he does most Sundays.
"We'd been asked by other organizations," Susie said. "But when we talked about the Miracle Field, Brent remembered what I had told him about Matthew and he said, 'This is it, babe.' "
The township donated the land. It will cost $750,000 to build the field. Gilmore & Associates designed it, waiving most of its fees. Last week, on the night the Phillies clinched the division, a big, enthusiastic crowd showed up at the site to hear a progress report.
"We are past the halfway point," Joe Hand Jr. said, and the crowd quivered with excitement. The tent was crammed with high hopes, and if you listened closely you could hear the late Harry Kalas crooning about little, old ants moving rubber-tree plants.
Comcast has created two 30-second commercials, and senior vice president Dave Breidinger was there to introduce them. Bill Gregory, who runs Bucks County Physical Therapy, was there to talk about his $1,000-pledge challenge to other area businessmen. The Boy Scouts were represented, and the NFL Alumni, and various demographics in between. Politicians mingled with parents of special-needs kids. The karma could have floated a battleship.
