This just in from the Department of Phys Ed...

Soul honored at Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards

PHILADELPHIA -- The World Champion Philadelphia Soul were honored at the 7th Annual Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards with an Outstanding Team Achievement Award on Monday night at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Center City Philadelphia. On hand to accept the award will be head coach Bret Munsey and 2008 Soul players OL Phil Bogle, C Mike Mabry, DB Rob Keefe, FB/LB Clifton Smith and WR/DB Mike Brown.

The Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards are voted on by fans in the Philadelphia area. Coca Cola and Wawa stores promoted balloting and to date over 196,000 ballots were received. At last year’s event, Munsey was honored with the Commitment to Excellence Award for his outstanding efforts behind the bench.

Good for them. The cool thing, aside from the team getting recognition, but they're getting recognition from Philly sports fans. Philly sports fans have something of a... reputation shall we say. They're more than happy to tell you they think you suck. Now, if the Philly sports writers can stop looking down their noses...

Something that wasn't mentioned was that Mike Brown was also given the Hometown Hero Award for his committment to community service in the Philadelphia area. Mike's a talented athlete with a great attitude. Just don't ask Cleveland's Jason Ball what he thinks. If you had this happen to you...

You'd probably have some hard feelings too.