Philadelphia Best

Suddenly Philadelphia Has a Major Identity Crisis
But with Sunday’s 41-33 victory over New England, the Eagles claimed their first Super Bowl title and first N. F.L.
“I think the Philadelphia fans will always be the same passionate (sometimes obnoxious) fans they always were,
win or lose,” Anne Clark, the matriarch of a family of ardent Eagles fans, said in an email during the game.
Lane Johnson, an Eagles tackle, made fun of Brady, and told Bob Ford of The Philadelphia Inquirer
that “seeing the Patriots in the Super Bowl is like watching the same episode of ‘Friends’ every night.
“It can happen, it can actually happen,” said Linda Harris, 68, a retired customer service
agent who wore her Eagles charm bracelet and helmet ring to watch Sunday’s game.
No team idealized Philadelphia’s view of itself as the Eagles did — the gritty, blue-collar, Rocky-esque underdog, good but not quite good enough.
“Perhaps it should” change the fans’ mind-set, Jack Long, 69, a retired Philadelphia firefighter and paramedic, said at the gym.
My friend Barbara Huebner, a longtime sportswriter in Boston, described herself as “a rabid, live-and-die-for-it Red Sox fan”
until the Sox won their first World Series in 86 years in 2004, then followed with two more titles in 2007 and 2013.

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