Hey, it’s better than nothing.
The Philadelphia Eagles are favorites to make the Super Bowl once again, despite a brutal (and somewhat surprising) loss to the Denver Broncos last weekend. The reigning champs are 4-1 despite a somewhat slow start from superstar running back Saquon Barkley, at least compared to the career-best season he had last year.
Barkley, who has three touchdowns and only 267 rushing yards so far this season, recently stopped by the Track Star podcast where he gave some insight into the Eagles locker room – including the kind of music they listen to.
As it turns out, they actually throw some country in the mix sometimes too…but only on one particular day of the week.
The RB was asked who controls the aux cord in the locker room:
“It literally changes. In the weight room, we literally fight. We have guys fight over it.
We do have Wednesday. Wednesday’s white boy Wednesday. So we get our chance to get our country music in there a little bit.”
You love to see that they’re throwing some country music in there every once in a while. But when asked who his favorite country artist is, Barkley didn’t hesitate:
“Morgan Wallen. I really haven’t got into the new album, but all my friends said it’s nice.”
Barkley was then played a snippet of “Number 3 & Number 7,” Morgan’s duet with Eric Church from his latest album I’m The Problem, and he confirmed that he’s familiar not only with that song but also with “Man Made A Bar,” Morgan’s duet with Church from his last album.
Saquon says he hasn’t yet been to a Morgan Wallen concert, which is kind of surprising considering Morgan played at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies, last year on his One Night At A Time Tour. You would have thought that Saquon would have been an easy choice to have join him for the walk out.
Morgan didn’t have any guests with him that night, and he doesn’t have any more shows currently on his schedule, but you gotta think Saquon will get the invite the next time he plays in Philly.
Especially if the show falls on White Boy Wednesday.
Morgan Jams To His Own Music In Police Car After Being Arrested
Imagine hearing your own song on the radio in the back of a police car.
By now we all know what happened with Morgan Wallen’s infamous chair throwing incident that occurred at Eric Church’s downtown Nashville bar, Chief’s, last year. The country music superstar was arrested and charged with three counts of felony reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct after throwing a chair off the roof of the building, and later pled guilty to misdemeanor reckless endangerment in Davidson County court in December of last year.
Morgan was ultimately sentenced to two years of probation and seven days in jail, to be served at a DUI education center.
Luckily nobody was injured in the incident, and there’s no doubt Morgan wants to put the entire thing behind him. But unfortunately, bodycam video from the arrest was released recently that once again has Morgan and his chair throwing arrest in the headlines.
In the video, obtained by the AP from the Metro Nashville Police Department, both Morgan and his bodyguard can be heard denying that he threw the chair from the roof:
“I ain’t done nothing wrong.”
He also could be heard on the video calling his buddy, and the owner of the bar, Eric Church to let him know what was going on:
“Hey, these motherf–kers are trying to take me, they’re trying to take me to jail outside of your f–king bar.”
Church can’t be heard on the recording, but I imagine his next question was something like, “Who?” because Morgan then replied:
“The cops. I’m not sure… They’re trying to. They won’t let me leave.”
But unfortunately for Morgan, officers were able to determine after watching the security camera footage that he was in fact the suspect behind the flying chair, and the country superstar was cuffed and placed in the back of the cruiser.
In dashcam footage, Morgan seemed to be in decent spirits (probably thanks to some spirits…) all things considered as he was being driven to the jail, with the officer even telling the country star that he was one of their favorite artists. And as his government Uber driver took Morgan to the clink, one of the singer’s own songs came up on the cop’s Spotify playlist – which clearly excited Morgan:
“Oh sh-t this is me and Thomas Rhett! Turn it up! That’s me and TR! That’s me right there. Come on now, me and TR.”
It’s a little hard to hear, but apparently the song playing was “Mamaw’s House,” Morgan’s 2023 duet with his friend Thomas Rhett. And Morgan had high praise for his duet partner:
“TR is one of the best. He’s one of the best dudes in the world. He would DEFINITELY not be getting arrested.”
At least he had some good music to listen to on the way to jail.
Eric Church On Morgan Wallen’s Arrest
Church has served as a mentor of sorts to Wallen throughout his career, and the two even recently teamed up to buy the iconic outdoors brand Field & Stream. And during an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Church recalled hearing about the chair incident for the first time – while Morgan was still standing outside of his bar:
“Morgan called me from the street after it happened. I was watching college basketball, and he said, “Hey, this just happened.” I said, “Uh-oh.” I knew it was gonna be noisy, and it was — it was d–n noisy.”
Just a little bit. I know on our end it was one of the biggest stories that we posted all year, and it was something not only all over the news but all over social media with memes and jokes. Pretty noisy.
But Church says he thinks the incident was a learning moment for Morgan, one that he’s grown from in the year since it happened:
“It was actually a good thing for Mo. I think that was a line for him, and he’s done really well since then — it was a thing he’s reacted positively to as a person. I used the old Billy Joe Shaver line on him: “I’m just an old chunk of coal, but I’ll be a diamond one day.” He went down [to Chief’s] and apologized to the staff, shook everybody’s hand. I was proud of him.”
Good on him.
As for Morgan, he recently revealed during a conversation with Theo Von that his fateful trip to Chief’s was the last time he’s been in a bar:
“It’s definitely the best thing for me, you know…
I ain’t been in a bar since the last time I was in a bar that everybody knows about. The most public time I was in a bar, that’s the last time I was in a bar.”
Smart. Definitely smart.