Two Cardinals fans arrested in burning of McNabb's lawn

by JasonB on Jan 21, 2009 12:00 PM EST in Philadelphia Eagles News

At first we thought the vandalism of McNabb's Arizona home was the work of a few stupid kids... It turns out they certainly were stupid, but not kids.

Chandler police arrested two Arizona Cardinals fans who they say burned messages in the front lawn of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb’s Chandler residence a day before the NFC Championship game.

Police were able to track down the pair after they discovered a sticker containing the home address of one of the men on a cardboard sign left in McNabb’s yard.

Rex Michael Perkins, 37, of Chandler, and Ryan Hanlon, 29, of Gilbert, were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage on Sunday after police questioned Perkins about the sign that said: “Go Cards” on one side and “Beat Philly” on the other, Chandler police said.

They literally left their name and address at the scene of the crime! Brilliant...

Thanks to yophillybro for breaking the story in the fanposts, for pictures of these dopes be sure to check it out. One of them even wore his Cardinals hat in his mugshot. What a fan!

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Punishment?

Death penalty, obviously.

by ajay on Jan 21, 2009 12:15 PM EST reply actions

punishment

easiest punishment ever.

they are not allowed to watch the superbowl. instead, they have to do community service the entire day.

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by psudrozz on Jan 21, 2009 12:35 PM EST reply actions

And then be put to death, right?

by ajay on Jan 21, 2009 12:36 PM EST up reply actions

more like..

Exiled to Detroit

by JGCarraway on Jan 21, 2009 1:28 PM EST up reply actions

ouch

but yeah, agreed.

doing community service in detroit on suber bowl sunday and missing the game would be worse than death to many a fan. especially if your team historically has no real measure of success.

then again, this is all assuming the “fans” didn’t just hop on the bandwagon a few weeks ago.

World F#$king Champions

by psudrozz on Jan 21, 2009 3:20 PM EST up reply actions

"My first and foremost goal is to win a Super Bowl. I also set goals in terms of having a type of year to make the Pro Bowl. If I'm going to the Pro Bowl, I know I'm making plays for the team." Brian Dawkins

by EAGLE_MAN71 on Jan 22, 2009 12:46 AM EST up reply actions

That actually would be an awesome punishment.

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by JasonB on Jan 21, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions

but make them listen to the crowd the whole time with no commentary so they hear the cheers but don’t know who it’s for.

"I need to do a better job of putting players in the right position to perennially come up short of expectations"

by Whodie126 on Jan 21, 2009 7:19 PM EST up reply actions

Brilliant.

And they thought WE fans were bad…. at least we’re not stupid enough to literally leave a paper trail. xD

by anelasama on Jan 21, 2009 2:09 PM EST reply actions

I ran this story on BBV today

I lived in Phoenix for 7 years, and came away from it feeling that AZ fans are just about the worst in sports (the good folks at Revenge of the Birds notwithstanding). They are sore losers, have an EXTREME hatred and jealousy of the East Coast, and as you can see, are sore winners as well. In a dry climate like Phoenix, this prank could have been disastrous.

Besides, who needs Cardinal fans to pick on McNabb, there are plenty of Eagle fans to do it for them, LOL.

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Jan 21, 2009 2:18 PM EST reply actions