No rest for Eagles pride at Olympics

VANCOUVER - Patriotism is nice. But it can't trump allegiance to the Eagles.

Mark Sciarotta, a devoted Eagles fan from Trenton who now lives in Vermont, was at the U.S.-Norway men's hockey game Thursday with his wife and three children.

Sciarotta spotted Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seated a few rows ahead. He pointed him out to his 41/2-year-old son, River.

"That," he told him, "is the man who owns the Cowboys."

After their team's 6-1 victory, the Americans in the Canada Center crowd were high-fiving each other and looking ahead to the marquee matchup with Canada. That was when the departing Jones walked past the Sciarottas.

River couldn't resist.

"Go, Eagles!" he yelled at Jones. "Go, Eagles!"

Jones stopped and playfully told the boy, "OK, buddy. We'll see about that."

Then the young Eagles fan and the aging Cowboys owner bumped knuckles.

"Mark said that of all the fantastic things they have seen at the Olympics," said Trenton's Sam Sciarotta, River's proud grandfather, "that moment will be the greatest memory of the trip."