"Airport lets sports star jump security line"

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Airport let McNabb butt in
The Philadelphia (PA) Daily News


AS A DOORMAN at the popular nightspot 32° (16 S. 2nd), Mike Bottone sees
Eagles all the time.

Sometimes, he might even let them in ahead of the masses.

But Bottone, 26, was upset when Donovan McNabb was whisked to the front of
the security line Sunday at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, where Bottone and some pals had been waiting for hours to
clear security.

McNabb, who was pushing a stroller and accompanied by wife Roxi and a
teenage boy, walked alongside the line, chatted with a guard, and suddenly
his group was taken to the front of the line, Bottone says. When Bottone
spoke up to a security guard about McNabb's special treatment, an argument
ensued, and he says the guard sent his group to the end of the line.

Bottone is peeved at the airport, not McNabb.

"I know he's a big shot or whatever, but when you've got a delay and
thousands of people waiting, and they walk him right to the front, I was
kinda pissed about it and so were a lot of other people."

An airport spokesman could not be reached yesterday.


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