PHILADELPHIA -- The list of words that an Eagles fan could have expected to use when describing the NFC Championship Game was long, and given this franchise's tortured history, not very pretty.
Nerve wracking. Cringe worthy. Agonizing. Heartbreaking. Calamitous. A #*!$*&@ total #&%&*. Bitter. Pathetic. A bloody mess (and that's just in the parking lot before the game).
But ... easy?!
No, of all the entries in the dictionary, the E word wouldn't have cracked the list for any of the 69,000 people inside Lincoln Financial Field and the other 1.