'Today doesn't happen unless all that happened,' he said, citing a trickle-down effect of sorts in which every little thing that went right or wrong over past years set the 2017 Eagles up for their lightening-in-a-bottle success.īack to 2010, though, when Jackson made his second Pro Bowl. He still sides with him over former coach Chip Kelly, who he thinks destroyed the team. Most of those fans of different teams didn't hesitate to rub it in that their teams won Super Bowls while his didn't.Īs a youth, he always liked the mercurial former Eagles receiver. I went to Science Leadership Academy High School with fans of all different teams.' 'My first memory of football was crying after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl,' the 20-year-old Center City resident said as his friend Chelsea Titlow wondered why he was getting interviewed. I waded through the crowd to find out how that came to be. Then, I saw Julian Makarechi along the Parkway.ĭude.

as we waited for a train at the Fort Washington Regional Rail stop. I saw my first – a Nnamdi Asomugha 24 – around 4:45 a.m. In our pre-parade coverage planning, the idea arose to snap pictures of the most unusual Eagles jerseys out that people wore to the big event. Julian Makarechi, 20, rocked a Desean Jackson Pro Bowl jersey to the Eagles Celebration parade. We were surrounded by tens of thousands of joyous fans who didn't get rammy as it took, oh, two hours for the team – and the Lombardi Trophy – to make their five-minute appearance within eyeshot.īut here's 10 things I saw in Fairmount – the neighborhood where I watched the Super Bowl and served as my original Philadelphia living space in the McNabb era – that you probably didn't: It will take another 52 years to scrape the Von Colln Memorial Field mud off our shoes.

My family's vantage point was about 100 bodies away from the parade route between 23rd and 24th streets, just off Pennsylvania Avenue. Wherever you watched them, the events of Thursday, Februleft an indelible mark. Maybe you watched at home, or the local bar, or the balcony of a friend's place in the apartment buildings along the way. If you were on the Parkway, your experience was not only different than people in South Philly, but from those even 50 yards away along the parade's last legs before the Jason Kelce show on the Rocky Steps. If you were on Broad Street, you saw things that people along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway didn't. A totally visual and somewhat NSFW recap the Eagles Super Bowl parade.How Jason Kelce wound up wearing a Mummers costume at Eagles Super Bowl parade.For all the collective joy in which people of all races, ages, backgrounds and side of the living/dead line basked, the Eagles celebration parade was also a quintessentially personal experience.

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