The other night, I was watching the latest Eagles news and got to thinking about gay porn. Stay with me for a minute. Now, I'm not trying to say that T.O. might care a little too much about appearance and fashion — not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Rather, the day's events had me all off-kilter; specifically Donovan McNabb's Friday right-back-atcha-Terrell press conference, which he started by saying, "As a child growing up, I dreamed of being an actor and now I am an actor in Days of Our Lives." It was a pretty good way to disarm the media hounds who, at the first sound of helicopter rotors — see home of Iverson, Allen — wrap their sweaty paws around their microphones and tape recorders and dream of nailing the Big Scoop.

It didn't take all that long for me to tire of the circus, what with real news stories being ignored from North Philly to northern Iraq. Alas, I'd forgotten to punch the 7 p.m. BBC World News into the DVR. Good thing I'd recently received a copy of E-A-G-L-E-S! The Movie, the synopsis for which reads: "Screamed from the stands, living rooms, bars and tailgate parties, it is clear that the Eagles and their fans 'go together like Cheese and Steak, baby!'"

A couple days earlier, the 83-minute "documentary" that follows a gaggle of fans throughout last season's near-championship run premiered at the Kimmel Center to live TV-news coverage and some pretty heady reviews. So, I figured it'd take my mind off the iceberg bearing down on the Linc.

Which brings me back to gay porn.

Maybe it was the cheesy, "Eye of the Tiger," kick-his-bleach-blonde-ass-Daniel-san soundtrack or the slo-mo images of fans running seemingly staged routes in the parking lot. Perhaps I'd already heard the hackneyed "inferiority complex" explanations 386 times too many. Whatever it was, I quickly felt all dirty and used, as if I were watching a slickly packaged infomercial. Kind of like those pro-administration newscasts that the White House pawned off as real news, and the gay hooker they let act like a legitimate reporter. And that's a helluva idea.

By granting the kind of access one can't even find on NFL Films reels, the team ends up clearing the path for a movie that'll get potential customers all hyped up and ready to S-P-E-N-D!

All that said, E-A-G-L-E-S! is a pretty good watch. The highlight comes as a wackjob photographer with a German accent gets all Zoolander during a photo shoot with Brian Westbrook. If you look closely amidst several entertaining moments with fans from across the Delaware Valley, there's a telling scene that essentially proves that McNabb couldn't stand his star receiver halfway through last season. (Yeah, we should've seen this coming).

If you're willing to shell out $24.99, you can see it for yourself when it hits store shelves Sept. 6, which, coincidentally, is less than a week before the team's opening game.