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Eagles' Nick Foles now grounded after short-lived time at dizzying heights | Les Bowen

TWENTY-SEVEN and two.

Those numbers will follow Nick Foles wherever he goes, forever.

Sometimes in sports, greatness swirls in and picks up a player. It flings him into the clouds for a while, then drops him in some faraway cornfield, unable to explain how he got there or why he can no longer fly.

The NBA in 2012 had Jeremy Lin and Linsanity. Baseball had Joe Charboneau, American League rookie of the year in 1980 and out of the majors a couple of years later. Hockey, Bobby Carpenter, whose 53 goals in 1984-85 stand out in a workmanlike 19-year career in which he otherwise averaged 14.