“Dawk of the Town”

Dec. 22, 2006

By DANA PENNETT O’NEIL oneild@phillynews.com

PRESUMABLY SOMETIME soon the Denver airport will reopen and Allen Iverson will officially leave Philadelphia. He will follow the same flight pattern – due west – that took Mike Lieberthal to Los Angeles last month and become another onetime Philly hero plying his trade in another city.

Brian Dawkins, in the meantime, will hop in his car today and make the same commute he has been making for 11 years. He will drive across the bridge from his New Jersey home for another day of work in South Philadelphia.

In a city that embraces its reputation as a place that chews up its stars and spits them out, Dawkins is, with Iverson’s trade, the longest-tenured athlete in the city. He is gliding through his 11th season with a contract that extends another two.

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