This interview, however, is like his Greatest Hits, a compendium of his best rationalizations from more than a decade. He should get K-tel Records to put it on a CD and sell it as an infomercial. Operators are standing by for your call, and they didn't throw up in the Super Bowl, either.
Yes, McNabb said, he should have known the NFL's overtime rules after being around for 10 years, but, hey, he heard an official say there would be another five minutes of playing time after the overtime period. So, that tie game in Cincinnati, well, it wasn't really his fault.
Is he kidding? No, apparently, he is not. He is claiming that some anonymous official didn't know the rule, either. And didn't just not know the rule, but advised him of something that is so off-the-wall that it can't possibly be true. McNabb insists it is.
"Nobody talks about that," he said of the mystery ref.
Of course, it's the same reason nobody talks about the zombies who took over the league office. It. Didn't. Happen.
And, yes, yes, that two-minute drill at the end of the Super Bowl could have gone a little faster. Bill Belichick was standing on the New England sideline watching the Eagles stroll about and screamed into his headset, "Is that scoreboard right? What are they doing?" But, really, it wasn't really McNabb's fault.
"We were trying to figure out if T.O. was in or if T.O. was out, because of his leg. T.O. wanted to be in. We were trying to rotate different guys in and get the personnel together and things of that nature," McNabb said.
Oh, things of that nature. Why didn't you say so? Things like getting 11 players on the field and running a play.
"The play-calling was a little slow, maybe, but it made it look like we were just kind of standing around," McNabb said. "We were hustling, it was just blown out of proportion."
