Fans started drinking at 10am.
Rioting after a ballgame seems to be a very northern thing. Why is that, I wonder? Is it cultural, did it come over with southern European and slavic peasants in the 19th and early 20th centuries, or was it the Marxism that the later ones brought with them?
“orning after the night before: Eagles fans leave Philly littered with glass, beer cans and downed traffic lights after night of exuberant Super Bowl celebrations”
How could they tell?
If Philadelphia has to be part of Pennsylvania, I’m glad it’s as far away from Pittsburgh as it is.
And I bet nary a one of them has any remorse for what they did.
City of Brotherly Love my...foot.
pagan idolatry.
And half eaten horse dookie.
That Philly crowd rages hard.
Human debris acting like human debris. There should have been mass arrests and they should have been thrown in a stockade, identified, photographed, and booked.
It’d look the same no matter which team won. People have turned into scum.
Maybe they could do like the Aztec/Mayan cultures and slaughter the winning team...might calm the fans down a little...or not
I had not realized that there were that many white people in Philly.
Those danged PA Amish do tend to get out of hand on occasion...
Now let’s hear about Amherst Massachusetts where twelve people were hospitalized with injuries in demonstrations and fights marking the agony of the Patriot’s defeat.....
By modern standards, the Philadelphia celebration was benign - no loss of life and only minor vandalism.
The subway/bus agency, SEPTA, stopped much of the system early to keep people from converging on Center City.
SEPTA lied about the train from South Jersey (PATCO from Lindenwold). People at stations along that route paid for parking and fares. Then about 200 people were transported to a Camden station where they were told nothing. Then the electricity was turned off.
Temperatures first rose in the smelly sardine-can trains then plummeted in the now near-freezing outside air.
Finally, after about 90 minutes, some of the strongest passengers forced the doors and helped the other people down from the train and other people helped others to descend the icy hill to the concrete.
I was driving passengers after the game and was directed to the Camden Ferry Ave. station where I helped two groups get out of Camden.
SEPTA said it was unable to bring another train for the “disabled” train.
How? Without electricity? SEPTA blamed vandalism. Those people weren’t vandals, they were heroes.
Passengers, police, firemen, EMTs, taxi, Lyft and Uber drivers and private car drivers averted a disaster.
I wonder how many of them were fans but rather thugs and druggies using it as an excuse?