The Philadelphia Eagles are among the most successful NFL franchises of the 21st century, coming off their second Super Bowl championship in eight seasons. So whatever they\u2019re doing is working.<\/p>\n
That appears to include their ownership and front office making weird sex analogies at inappropriate times.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, NFL owners voted against a proposal that would have effectively banned the \u201ctush push\u201d play the Eagles have made famous in recent years. This was the second time the controversial play had come up for a vote, and many thought it would be banned this time. However, the vote fell just short of the 75% threshold needed.<\/p>\n
The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini recapped what Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie did behind the scenes<\/a> to ensure the tush push would live another day. She reported that Lurie and other Philadelphia front-office officials had recently contacted other teams to drum up support against Green Bay\u2019s proposal to ban the play. Wednesday morning, Lurie made his final pitch, pointing out that \u201cit\u2019s the safest play in the history of the game\u201d before offering a crude analogy.<\/p>\n Per Russini:<\/p>\n One high-ranking league source who was in the room said, \u201cLurie was like a guy trying to convince his girlfriend why she shouldn\u2019t leave him.\u201d Throughout his pitch, Lurie was emotional, passionate and \u2014 at one point \u2014 crude. He said the fact that his team came up with a play so unstoppable that the rest of the league had no other choice but to try to ban it was \u201clike a wet dream for a teenage boy.\u201d Toward the end of his address, he told the assembled owners that, regardless of the day\u2019s result, he and his franchise would walk out winners, with Super Bowl rings to show for it.<\/p>\n That\u2019s certainly one way of thinking about it. It\u2019s also par for the course when Eagles brass talks about their team.<\/p>\n After Philly defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl this past season, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman tried to explain what it feels like to win two championships.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first one\u2026it\u2019s almost like the first time you have sex,\u201d Roseman said on\u00a0The McShay Show<\/a>. \u201cYou are so glad you had sex it\u2019s not even the quality of it. The second time, it\u2019s like \u2018Wow, I can actually have fun and enjoy this.’\u201d<\/p>\n