PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On this Feb. 14, love Hurts.
A minimum of in Philadelphia, the place swooning Eagles followers are able to have a good time the Tremendous Bowl champions and MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts throughout the Metropolis of Brotherly Love.
Followers camped out alongside the workforce’s parade route in a single day, huddling below blankets and inside tents early Friday to safe prime spots close to the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork the place the Eagles will take the stage on the “ Rocky ” steps.
Some followers confirmed up with grocery carts stocked with meals and booze. One group roasted a pig with the quantity “15” carved into the facet — a closing shot at Kansas Metropolis quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Many hoped to get a glimpse of record-setting operating again Saquon Barkley or Cooper DeJean, the rookie defensive again who ran an interception into the top zone on his twenty second birthday.
The Eagles, although underdogs, dominated the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday, shutting them out within the first half earlier than ending with a 40-22 victory.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, who made an amusing gaffe when she mangled the spelling of the “Eagles” as she led a chant final month, corrected herself Tuesday by calling them the “N-F-L-C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S.”
She and different metropolis leaders implored the workforce’s, ahem, exuberant followers to remain secure and maintain the temper festive for the Valentine’s Day dinner crowd.
“Don’t climb any mild poles,” the mayor stated. “Within the midst of all this magnificence, all the sacrifices this workforce has made to fulfill this second, we don’t need it to all go by the wayside.”
She spoke after a university scholar died falling from a road pole after the Eagles’ gained the NFC championship sport final month and after final 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl celebration in Kansas Metropolis was marred by gunfire.
There was a big police presence alongside the parade route, which stretches from South Philadelphia the place the Eagles play all the way in which to downtown’s Metropolis Corridor after which onto the artwork museum.
Dump vans and heavy tools blocked lots of the facet streets alongside the route. Metropolis colleges closed for the parade, together with metropolis courts and different businesses.
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