Why Care?
Ever think about why it is that you still remain a Philly phillies fan? Here are ten points created by a great Philly Local Sports Blog.
Take a look at the Philly Fan Misery Index in the Philly Sports Blog to marvel at just how many years it was since a Phillies World Series Championship, an Eagles Super Bowl win, a Flyers HockeyChampionship victory, or a Sixers Championship. The most recent is 22 yrs. ago. Shucks, 1.4 million Philly fans were not yet born the last time one of our teams won a sports championship. So why in the world can anybody even want to be a fan at a Philadelphia sporting event? Why would someone want an Allen Iverson jersey or a football inscribed by Kearse?
Here is a list of ten reasons why it is good suffering as a Philly Sports fan
- Misery Loves Company - As the ancient expression says, misery loves company, and as evidenced by Philadelphia-area sports franchisees never-ending disasters, Philadelphia sports fans sure do have whole slew of misery-and a great deal of company. This is your city of brotherly love and we can easily find some other distressing fan to grieve with. Our Local Sports Radio Station, W.I.P., is mostly twenty-four constant hours of disappointed sports fans complaining about the Philadelphia Phillies and the other teams. The radio hosts, whether they beHoward Eskin, Glen Macnow or Angelo and the morning crew, do their best to give the incidental unrealistic philly fan a knockout dose of realism.
- Booing - Philly fans love booing a person whether it be Charlie Manuel, Terrell Owens or Santa Claus. I adore it!
- Beer & Food - whether you are tailgating before a >Philadelphia Eagles sporting event or relaxing in the Wachovia center, or in the parking lot of Citizens Bank Park, Philly people adore to guzzle beer and eat hoagies. This may be one reason why it always seems we are amongst the plumpest Americans Each season.
- Dallas Cowboy Fans - Sure the Eagles cannot win the Super Bowl… EVER. But recently We have been habitually beating the Cowboys. For some unknown reason, we still have a microscopical but mouthy bunch of half-wits who proudly call up WIP Sports Radio and proclaim - “this is the year that Dallas will beat the Eagles”. Of course, we seldom hear their mouths again till the succeeding year after the Eagles wipe out those Cowboys.
- Wing Bowl - this is held on the Friday preceding the Super Bowl in the Wachovia Center and pulls in more watchers than a Philadelphia Flyers game. We still cannot figure out how come twenty-thousand fans are here to catch a couple of people swallow lots of wings but they seem to love it. The slews of topless women and beer most likely aid a trifle with drawing a crowd though, aye?
- Hope of a Broad Street Parade - Of course everybody remembers back in the 1970s when those Flyers won the Stanley Cup and 1 gazillion philadelphia fans showed up at the Broad Street Parade, right? Since 2.7 million Philly fans were not even on earth yet-it is possible that they have heard the stories for so long, it is almost like they recall.
- Cheese Steaks - Every top-10 list linked to Philly had better list Cheesesteaks. A “youz wanna steak wit” is almost as Classic Philly as never having a national championship. Take a look at Eagles coach Andy Reid and you can look at a big fan of cheese steaks
- The Philadelphia Phanatic - He is totally the most effective philly fan of all time. Fur-covered, maniacal, and devoid of drawers, he somewhat accurately constitutes a huge cross-section of the Philly male.
- Allen Iverson - adore him or loathe him, each Sports fan respects him on the basket. He plays through sprains, kinks, cuts, bruises and breaks, and can energize a crowd. However, he is even more crazy off the basketball hoop appearing like the spokesperson of the hood. Iverson is the opposite of Donovan McNabb, who is totally loved by Local lovers, Iverson has made a vocation based on being late for practice, brooding if he does not play almost each moment of every sixers game, getting into scrapes with the law, or only showing up a City Line Ave. restaurant with his Boys. He constitutes the guy Players that Philly fans can not decide whether to like or dislike.
- Erasing The William Penn Curse - Prior to the mid 1980s, no sky scraper in downtown Philadelphia could ever be taller than the William Penn sculpture on top of city hall. Since the "Gentlemans Agreement" was bumped off, no Philadelphia team has been able to win a title - it has now been a little more than twenty-two long years. People discussed the Cubbies curse or the Boston Red Sox curse which was wiped out in 2004 but Each of these metropolises had other franchisees getting Championships. No curse comes close to the torment survived by a Philadelphia fan.
In all probability this is the reason that in spite of Philadelphia area fans eliminating their season tickets, calling Howard Eskin at WIP, and taking an oath that they will never patronize their team again that they are here every pre-season ready to boo another time.