Me sorry. Bizarro Lupes is writing this blurgg… Wartching the Miami Heat crush the OKC Thunder in Game 5 turned regular Lupes into “Garbage” (the extra-sensitive superhero) who transforms into Bizarro Lupes when times are uncomfortable…
Bizarro Lupes cannot comprehend how the Miami Heat now have their 2nd Championship title and the Eagles are still shy of their first NFL championship title since 1960-61…
Listening to LeBron rant on about how his feelings were hurt after last season’s NBA loss in the playoffs was revolting to Bizarro Lupes… try stepping into some Iggles fans’ shoes, LeBron, and you will get to know what time-tested hurt feelings are all about…
It didn’t help much when the NFLN Network was simultaneously showing clips from the infamous “Fog Bowl” of the December 31, 1988 playoff game between the Eagles and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.
What a rip that game was… The game should have been called on account of FOG!!— but since da Bears grabbed the early lead before the fog rolled in from Lake Michigan, the gutless referee crew carried on with a steadfast commitment to finish the game. I think we lost 20-12… what a joke. Players came off the field to the sideline with coaches asking “What happened on that play— we couldn’t see anything!”
Jump cut to now…
Former Chicago Bears college scouting director Greg Gabriel is back in the NFL.
Gabriel has been hired as a senior college scout by the Eagles. He will work primarily in the Midwest. Gabriel served under former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo from 2001 through the 2010 draft before he was fired. Angelo ran off Gabriel and pro personnel director Bobby DePaul to create a job for Tim Ruskell. The Angelo/Ruskell front office lasted two seasons before Angelo was fired two days after the end of the 2011 season.
Greg Gabriel, who was in his sixth season as the Bears director of college scouting, had coordinated the team’s college scouting operation for the last five NFL drafts. Hired by Chicago on June 19, 2001, Gabriel is a veteran of 23 NFL seasons, spending 16 years in the New York Giants scouting department after two years with the Buffalo Bills. Gabriel’s chief job responsibilities are scheduling scouting visits, coordinating scouting meetings, and evaluating collegiate players…
Gabriel’s main task will be in playing an instrumental role in the development of the Eagles draft plan. His first four drafts with Chicago yielded 18 players who started at least one game for the Bears in 2005, including first-time Pro Bowl selections Lance Briggs, Nathan Vasher and Tommie Harris, named an all-star starter in just his second NFL season. Nine of 22 opening-day starters last year were drafted during Gabriel’s tenure with the team.
Gabriel came to Chicago after serving as the Director of Player Development for the New York Giants. The Buffalo native joined the Giants scouting department during the 1985 off-season after serving as an area scout for an NFL scouting combine in the Great Lakes area. During his tenure with the Giants, the team went to three Super Bowls, winning two. Gabriel began his NFL career with two years working in Buffalo’s scouting and film grading department. Prior to entering football, Gabriel was an account executive with Prudential-Bach and later with Dean Witter Reynolds while working part-time in the scouting department of the Bills.
A native of Buffalo where he was born in 1951, Gabriel prepped at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsville, N.Y. He was a running back at Canisius College for three seasons while earning his bachelor of science degree. Gabriel played eight seasons for the Twin City Geminis, a semi-pro team in the Buffalo area where he also coached the running backs and special teams for one season.
Gabriel and his wife, Robin, married following the 2004 NFL Draft. Gabriel has three daughters (Liza, Ryan and Kelsey), two stepsons (Ryan and Nolan), one stepdaughter (Emily) and two grandsons (Jordan and Herman).
Yes, I know, he comes off as some kind of evil genius… like a Midwestern version of Sonbutts who chose football instead of day-trading stocks on the NYSE for his speculative pleasure…
But I for one am happy to see the Eagles recruiting an eccentric genius for their scouting department. If you’re going to win the big one, you might as well start with a scouting department that thinks big— and the Eagles are in the perfect position to think big outside the box.
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