What Would Buddy Do?
Spadaro throws 3 INTS in web site roster gaffe
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm by Cheesesteak Hoagie

the PR departmentSome high comedy (and low-level controversy) in the past 48 hours surrounding the Eagles’ final roster cuts, which were officially announced Saturday afternoon but which had been unofficially (and, it turns out, incorrectly) posted to the Eagles mobile site (which doesn’t work on my Motorola Q’s browser, I might add) Friday afternoon. WIP and the Eagles blogs caught on pretty quickly, posted the cuts, and bam (!) — the Birds have a mini PR crisis.

While GM Tom Heckert said that the screwups (5 players on the premature list were actually incorrect) with the web site weren’t such a big deal, but that didn’t stop Eagles Insider/ Minister of Information and Education Dave Spadaro from falling on his sword:

“I fully accept responsibility for the situation,” Spadaro said. “We screwed up. It’s not an accurate list. We don’t know the [real] list. We were not in contact with anybody, other than ourselves.”

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