It just had to be the Eagles, didn't it.
It couldn't have been, like, the Cardinals. If the Arizona Cardinals had discovered the Tush Push and then spent the next half-decade perfectly executing it, it would just quietly exist as a really great goal-to-go playcall. But nope, it's the Eagles. The Tush Push's success couldn't have happened to a louder team.
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You've surely already heard it screamed in your ear by now, but the Tush Push survived. It was put up to a vote, and a bunch of NFL Insiders prematurely reported on its demise. Instead, the owners decided it was Actually Super Cool and voted to keep it around for the foreseeable future. Awesome! I look forward to watching defenses jump offsides 150 straight times during the middle of a hugely important drive in the playoffs next winter.
And because the Packers were *the* team most invested in getting rid of the tush push, they are now today's main character on Twitter. Of course, you never want to be the main character on Twitter, and the Eagles made sure to bring their trademark ... sass? ... to your timeline with pristine timing. I mean, they had this thing saved in drafts for weeks.
The Eagles did, unfortunately, own the Packers On The Web
Sighhhhhhh. It's a good bit. It doesn't help that the vote to keep the Tush Push (22-10) was the exact same score as the Eagles' win over Green Bay that angered everyone so much and low-key started this whole failed revolt. A little too on-the-nose for my tastes, frankly. This probably just because the Packers have been historically so great that everyone's tired of their greatness and good ideas and cool uniforms. It's like when Michael Jordan didn't win MVPs because it was boring. The Packers are basically the Michael Jordan of NFL teams, complete with a real bad sore losing tendency.
The good news, I guess, is that this tweet is now Grade A bulletin board material. It's not like this rivalry really needed it, but it's always nice to have the Packers have a little motivation of their own. And sure, maybe I'm just neck-deep in coping right now, and the Eagles' troll job doesn't actually swing the public opinion towards Green Bay, but this is a Packers blog, so I'm just going to stay ignorant about it. Are we the bad guys?