Next Season of "24" To Be Set In Philly?

Ok, maybe the headline to this post is a bit tongue in cheek, but I came across this very interesting idea about a season of 24 set in Philly while reading the Sports Guy's latest mail bag. I love the Sports Guys' additional input:

"Q: I have a brilliant idea for the next season of "24": After listening to Boston sports fans complain about not winning a fourth Super Bowl and the Celtics finishing "only" 68-14, a mentally unbalanced Philadelphia sports fan (played by myself) steals a dirty bomb and threatens to set it off in Boston. The only man who can stop him is Jack Bauer. Things get more complicated when I plan to kidnap relatives of the Celtics and demand they throw their first-round playoff series. Bauer eventually catches me and threatens to shoot me dead. I reply that no man scares me after witnessing Billy King, Andy Reid and Charlie Manuel for a collective decade of stupidity. Bauer shoots me dead, anyway. Ironically, the Phillies go on to win the World Series several months after my death. The end. What do you think?
-- Sean, Philly

SG: I think you're a borderline genius. Three things I would have added, though. First, how did you not work Andy Reid's sons into that pitch? That could have been a whole four-episode arc of its own -- Jack Bauer searching for the mentally unbalanced Philly fan and somehow ending up at a party at Reid's house, then mistakenly thinking one of his kids was a suspect. Second, Jack should get hooked up with Donovan McNabb at some point, because it would be funny to see them racing around trying to find the suspect as the "24" music is hammering away, only McNabb was moving at the same lethargic speed in which he operated the "2-Minute Drill" in Super Bowl XXXIX, so Jack just keeps getting angrier and angrier with him and finally shoots McNabb. And third, in the final episode, when we flash-forward to the World Series, Jack throws out the first pitch of Game 7 and gets booed by the Philly fans."

Simmons' ideas are great, but I would add a few things. First, this season would would extend over two halves. The first would be set in Boston as described above, but then the second half would be back in Philly and we'd find out that Ed Snider, Jeffrey Lurie/Joe Banner and the Phillies ownership group have diabolically conspired to prevent our teams from winning titles by not spending for free agents, hiring terrible GM's and coaches, failing to invest in training staff which has led to countless injuries, and other actions which have sabotaged our title chances.

I envision an episode where Harold Katz is included as someone that mysteriously contacts Jack to provide information on the conspiracy but is assassinated by one of Mr. Snider's men before he could spill the beans. I would also change Simmons ending drastically. I'd have a final ending where Jack breaks out of a Philly prison (of course, he'd be detained at some point…it wouldn't be a season of 24 otherwise) and finally obtains the details of the conspiracy. He would then systematically kill the owners, but Mr. Snider (the true mastermind of the group) slips away. That leads to a final confrontation where Jack locates Mr. Snider hiding out a South Philly ware house and he is holding Brian Westbrook, J Roll, Chase Utley and Mike Richards hostage and threatens to kill them to snuff out any Philly title hopes for the foreseeable future. Of course, Jack would infiltrate the warehouse and then get into a brawl with Mr. Snider (who is surprisingly frisky despite his advanced age) that ends with Snider's spectacular death.

The final moments of the season would be a flash forward to Jack throwing out the first pitch of a World Series game to thunderous cheers.

Sorry Sports Guy, I like my happy ending much better.