They walked into a relatively upscale department store, and Kevin, as usual, headed right for the sale rack. Kolb hadn't shopped in some time, so he grabbed an armful of shirts and headed to the register. The items were scanned, and the total was $120.
No, that's too much.
"One of the shirts was $27, and I said, 'Take that shirt out of there. I don't need a shirt for $27,' " Kolb said.
And Whitney?
"She's just dying laughing at the cash register," he said.
Kolb's friends aren't as amused.
"Sometimes I want to slap him," best friend Kendal Briles said. "I mean, not getting potatoes on a burrito, and you're making that kind of money? Are you kidding me? I'll give you the dollar for the potatoes."
Humble beginning
It's July and hotter than a half-chewed jalapeno, as Texans like to say. Kolb is to meet a visiting Philadelphia reporter for lunch, and it's requested that Kolb choose a nice restaurant, preferably one that serves some of the state's famous barbecue. He chooses a Chili's on Highway 377 because, he says, it would be easier to find for the traveler.
The reporter arrives 10 minutes early, and Kolb, in a button-down checkered shirt with a pair of sunglasses perched on his head, is already seated at a booth.
"I went ahead and ordered us some nachos," Kolb said.
Eagles training camp, and the unofficial start of Kolb's new career as the team's starting quarterback, is half a world away, and the conversation is about his worst job ever. When he was 12 or 13, Kolb spent part of one summer scraping and repainting his neighbor's fence. It was the only job he has ever quit.
"It was brutal," Kolb said between sips of Dr Pepper and bites of his boneless chicken salad. "Halfway through, I said, 'You don't have to pay me for my work, I'm stopping.' I was getting nowhere, and they wanted it done by a certain time."
