Dave, Leslie, and I had a nice conversation last night about the sports fans in Philadelphia. Poor Leslie, she tried so hard to defend them, but it’s hard to defend the City of Brotherly Love when they cheered Michael Irvin as he lay on the field with a spinal injury. They also threw iceballs at Santa Claus.
Anyway, apparently the Lincoln Financial “Fan of the Game” was handcuffed and thrown out of the last Eagles game. This is from the blog Philadelphia Will Do:
I was at last night’s game (my uncle’s got season tix and he gave me this game as a graduation present). Anyway, we happened to be in the row with the LINCOLN FINANCIAL FAN OF THE GAME, which, as you know, gets selected at random somehow and receives a prize…. I don’t know what happened after that, but a couple minutes later we heard a commotion and saw Eagles security in our section. Turns out they were slapping the cuffs on a guy and taking him out… hey… THEY’RE EJECTING THE FAN OF THE GAME! Yeah, there he goes — a metaphor for Philly sports if there ever was one.
Apparently the guy was running around trying to get the crowd riled up in the 4th quarter and pushing an old man around. I don’t know if you watched the game on TV, but that game was over by the 4th quarter. The Eagles were fully in control and were scoring on the Packers at will.
I love Philadelphia. I wonder if they still have Iggles Court in the new stadium?
This post constitutes my contribution to the Terrell Owens v. Donovan McNabb media hype this week.
It is my understanding that there is some version of Iggles Court in the new place.
This is one of my favorite posts! I can’t stop laughing. The picture of the girl all the way to the right with her fists in the air?…..it’s priceless. And I can’t get the image out of my head of “the chosen #1 fan” pushing around an old person so’s he can rile up the crowd. Phil-theee-delphia is a messed up place kids. I lived there long enough to know that. Sorry Leslie. Congratulations on a wonderful post Kent. That girl in the picture is STUPID!!!
Thank you for your kind words.
Now put down the cat.
It has got to be the cold weather up there that hardens the hearts and souls of these people. And then they teach it to their kids. Paul, you look so good….the eyebrows are to die for.