One good thing about tonight's match-up for the MNF crew is the easy transition they'll have into the whole "booing Santa" story that inevitably comes up anytime a Philly team plays in front of a national audience. Tonight is actually the 40th anniversary of the incident which has been generously used as "Exhibit A" in Philadelphia's longstanding reputation for deplorable fan behavior. Stu has apparently started early:

"SportsCenter’s coverage of Monday Night Football from the city of Brotherly Love, unless Santa Claus is your brother," said ESPN's Stu Scott. "You know, Eagles fans once famously booed Old St. Nick."

Keep that up, Stu, and you'll get a cup full of bum piss thrown at you during the post-game report. Just saying.

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It was the winter of 1989, and just like any other city, Raleigh, North Carolina was dealing with the hardships of their first snow storm of the season. The town needed someone to get information to the masses in regards to on public works and grocery store shopping lists, but who would that man or woman be?

That man was one Stuart Scott and long before the "Booyahs" and "Lemme Knows", Stu was working for WRAL-TV 5 and hanging with the likes of Angela, Ennis, T.L. and random, no-named, mulleted townies in video stores.