Babin puts Texas ranch on the market

BECAUSE HE CAN'T bring it with him, Eagles defensive end Jason Babin put his 437-acre ranch in Shelby County, Texas up for sale - a vast piece of property complete with all the fixins.

The house and its acreage, brokered through Texas real estate agent Carroll Bobo, of United Country Bobo Realty, comes fully furnished, but the house itself isn't the real steal. For an asking price of $2.2 million, 380 acres are a hunter's paradise courtesy of a game fence, home to whitetails, elk, fallow, zebra, in addition to whitetail breeder bucks.

"This place comes fully furnished, he's only taking his necessities," Bobo told the Daily News. "Jason and I have been talking back and forth for a few months and I have to tell you he's really leaving behind a beautiful piece of property."

The 55 acres that remain outside the game fence are wooded and bordered by a creek. The main house boasts three bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths, but the main attraction is a 5,000-square-foot lodge and game room that sleeps 12. The compound also comes with a full deer-breeding facility with pens, metal barn housing artificial insemination equipment (you know if you need some), a metal barn/workshop, a walk-in cooler, ATVs, multiple hunting towers, as well as commercial corn and protein feeders, according to Bobo.

Check out the Babin estate at www.boborealty.com.

Babin, a Pro Bowl journeyman whose last stop was with the Tennessee Titans, was just given a 5-year contract worth $28 million over the term.

But while Bobo is happy to have his hands on Babin's property, as a Cowboys fan he does have his reservations on Babin joining the dark side - midnight green, that is.

"I have been a Dallas [Cowboys] fan since the team started in 1960," Bobo proclaimed in that all-too-familiar Texas drawl. "I did text Jason and wished him luck up there in Philadelphia, but I also told him that when he plays Dallas, he better take it easy on my quarterback."