THE MOST interesting part of Chip Kelly's hour-long session with reporters last month was something that won't make it into many accounts of the interview.
Somehow the writers and Kelly got into friendly banter about the Philadelphia media and fanbase. To us, the reason the Eagles have an unusually large media corps is pretty obvious - this is a huge market where people care more about their NFL team than anything else in sports, or maybe even in their lives. There isn't another market this size whose passion compares, except maybe Dallas.
The New York market is split, and baseball is still bigger than football there.