There is a very good possibility that Giants defensive end Michael Strahan will be asking Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, and possibly right tackle Jon Runyan, about tickets for Sunday's Giants-Eagles game in Philly.
I'm not kidding.
Strahan, who will try and manhandle Runyan on his way to putting McNabb on his backside, actually gets tickets from those guys. And Strahan gets Giants tickets for them, too.
In his recent autobiography, "Inside the Helmet," Strahan wrote about how he called McNabb the night before last year's Giants-Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field. He needed to know about the tickets McNabb had arranged to get, but that weren't available when a friend went to pick them up.
Strahan tried furiously to call McNabb on his cell phone, and finally got through the night before the game.
"Hey, man, my friend ... you got those tickets for, where are they? Their tickets aren't downstairs at your hotel. Could you make sure they're taken care of?"
"Really? Yeah, no problem. I'll get it taken care of right now. Tell them I'll come down now."
"Thanks man. Sorry to bug you about this. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
It's as if I'll be catching up with him when we get to our cubicles or meet in the corporate cafeteria. I'll see you tomorrow when I try to tear you (bleeping) arm off your body. But thanks for getting my friends their tickets."
Strahan also said he's gotten tickets for Runyan for Eagles-Giants games at Giants Stadium. One time, the seats were so bad that Strahan was obsessing about the tickets he got for a friend of Runyan's wife, even though Strahan wasn't playing because of a foot injury.
"For some reason, I got the noseblood seats. I actually ran down (make that "limped down") after the game to make sure I apologized to him for the lousy seats I gave his wife," he wrote.
"It must sound crazy to the average fan that the wife or a guy who has been made out to be my archrival would call me for tickets, and that I'd be so apologetic for not getting better seats, but this isn't a unique case."
Weird.
Very, very weird.