What might have happened had the Philadelphia Eagles selected Ricky Williams, a running back from Texas, with the second pick of the 1999 NFL draft? Cheers would have filled Madison Square Garden, where the draft was held, and Donovan McNabb would have fallen to the Cincinnati Bengals or the Indianapolis Colts or the New Orleans Saints or some other team in some other city, with a chance to write a different script. There would have been no history for McNabb with Philadelphia, with the Eagles, with their fans.
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