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*Official 2017 Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles* - Parade of Champions Down Broad Street! (4 Viewers)

Deamon said:
@The Noid you end up making it to the game?
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Hell yeah! Just got back last night after spending the night in Chicago because of weather and cancelled flights.

IT. WAS. AMAZING!!! It felt like a home game. Our section was mostly Eagles fans. The Eagles fight song and E-A-G-L-E-S chants are well documented, but what I haven't seen mentioned is that ALL the things from our home games were there:

  • The AC/DC pre-game intro music (plus the addition of "Dream and Nightmares" when they came out of the tunnel)
  • The Adrian "Win!" and "What are we waiting for?" clips from Rocky
  • Swoop and the E-A-G-L-E-S flag runners after every score
  • The fight song after every score
  • The third-down chime
I don't know if it's because the Pats just don't have as many of those things, or maybe I didn't even notice them because I couldn't care less (or they're just lame), but it felt like we got to bring EVERYTHING from The Linc with us which only compounded the taking over of the stadium.

My estimate was 55% Eagles fans, 35% Pats fans, 5% Vikings fans that bought tickets before the NFC Championship game and were still salty and anti-Eagles, 5% other. The stadium was still at least half-full after the clock hit 00:00, which backs that up. We had a pair of Pats fans in the seats to my left that couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Other random things:

  • The longer the review of the Ertz TD went on, the more antsy the crowd got. They gave everyone a Bud Light plastic Tervis-type cup with a "puck" in the bottom that would light up blue when the Pats scored and Green when the Eagles scored. I think, no doubt, if that got overturned after we saw the replay 5 or 6 times where he took 4 steps with the ball before diving for the endzone, those cups would have been projectiles and we would have a new black mark on our fan reputation. Later, I heard an interview with Ertz where he said something like, "I don't even want to know what would have happened in Philly if that got overturned" and he was absolutely right.
  • An Eagles fan in our section (345) had a heart-attack or some type of cardiac event when the game ended. Like, no joke, chest pains, couldn't breathe, passed out and they had to take him out on a gurney (when he regained consciousness.) 
  • Behind us sat two 80-some, vets and Eagles fans that paid who-knows-how-much to be at an Eagles Super Bowl, but watched 90% of the game on the giant video screen to our left because they just couldn't keep getting up and down or stand with the crowd. We tried to stand sideways, whenever we got up, so they could see the field a bit. It's fans like that that I feel the happiest for. They probably thought they would never see an Eagles Super Bowl win in their lifetime. 
  • When the Hail Mary was in the air I swear the entire stadium was silent for a half-second as the ball came down into the crowd of players in the endzone. I just watched the highlights on "Inside The NFL" last night and it didn't quite sound that way, so maybe I blacked out for that half-second. But I know sound didn't exist for me. And then when the ball bounced off the turf, everything came back, and loud. 
  • My brother-in-law (and many others) didn't even realize the game was over and we did it. There was 9 seconds on the clock so he didn't think the play took that long. I saw the ball bounce, looked to my right, where he was standing, and saw the zeros on the game clock behind him and said, "That's it! We won!!" and he looked at me confused and said, "Wait, what? It's over?" and then started celebrating.
  • I didn't agree with three calls by Pederson. First, chasing the missed extra point by going for 2. Didn't like the decision and didn't like the play call, but also pissed they didn't call PI or Def Holding, especially after calling it on us the series before for a way less obvious. Second, going for it on 4th down before the end of the half. Boy was I wrong! That "Philly Special" play goes down in NFL history, not just Eagles history, for many reasons (time of game, score, down, distance, balls to call a trick play, have the QB be the receiver, and after NE tried something similar and failed spectacularly!!) And third, thought the WR screen to Agholor that lost us 8 yards was dumb. Many were upset he didn't pass with 2:03 in the 4th, after the NE timeout, but I was ok with being conservative there. Don't want to risk a strip sack (looking at you, TB12!), losing yards, or another fluky deflection for an interception. Grind it forward, maybe get a first, of not you're still in position to go up by 8.  
  • My season ticket seats are 18 rows from the field, at the 30. For SBLII, we were 11 rows up in the upper level, at the pylon and it was the most frustrating view because play after play, we could clearly see the Pats WRs getting open (by miles.) When you're almost ground level, you don't see all that open, empty field around players that are open. But from above, it was nauseating. 
  • After the game, and the post-game celebration, we drove 90 miles to our hotel in Wisconsin and walked into a lobby full of Eagles fans also back from the game. That was the theme the rest of the trip. When we stopped for lunch the next morning on our drive back to Chicago, the Culver's had Eagles fans also making a drive. When we got to the airport, there were other Eagles fans stranded there, and when we finally got a flight out Tuesday, I sat next to another fan that went to the game. 
I'm waiting for a full replay of the broadcast (not just the NLF Network condensed gamecast) to see the game that way. Also want to hear how bad Collinsworth was!  

Don't tell my wife, or my kids, but it was probably the most memorable thing of my life. Our wedding day went by so fast I only remember bits and pieces. Kids' births are a close second, but remember every detail from the game so vividly and in the days since have repeatedly seen clips, heard it discussed, etc. that it's just going to be more indelible. 

Yet, it still doesn't feel real...

 
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The Noid said:
Hell yeah! Just got back last night after spending the night in Chicago because of weather and cancelled flights.

IT. WAS. AMAZING!!! It felt like a home game. Our section was mostly Eagles fans. The Eagles fight song and E-A-G-L-E-S chants are well documented, but what I haven't seen mentioned is that ALL the things from our home games were there:

  • The AC/DC pre-game intro music (plus the addition of "Dream and Nightmares" when they came out of the tunnel)
  • The Adrian "Win!" and "What are we waiting for?" clips from Rocky
  • Swoop and the E-A-G-L-E-S flag runners after every score
  • The fight song after every score
  • The third-down chime
I don't know if it's because the Pats just don't have as many of those things, or maybe I didn't even notice them because I couldn't care less (or they're just lame), but it felt like we got to bring EVERYTHING from The Linc with us which only compounded the taking over of the stadium.

My estimate was 55% Eagles fans, 35% Pats fans, 5% Vikings fans that bought tickets before the NFC Championship game and were still salty and anti-Eagles, 5% other. The stadium was still at least half-full after the clock hit 00:00, which backs that up. We had a pair of Pats fans in the seats to my left that couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Other random things:

  • The longer the review of the Ertz TD went on, the more antsy the crowd got. They gave everyone a Bud Light plastic Tervis-type cup with a "puck" in the bottom that would light up blue when the Pats scored and Green when the Eagles scored. I think, no doubt, if that got overturned after we saw the replay 5 or 6 times where he took 4 steps with the ball before diving for the endzone, those cups would have been projectiles and we would have a new black mark on our fan reputation. Later, I heard an interview with Ertz where he said something like, "I don't even want to know what would have happened in Philly if that got overturned" and he was absolutely right.
  • An Eagles fan in our section (345) had a heart-attack or some type of cardiac event when the game ended. Like, no joke, chest pains, couldn't breathe, passed out and they had to take him out on a gurney (when he regained consciousness.) 
  • Behind us sat two 80-some, vets and Eagles fans that paid who-knows-how-much to be at an Eagles Super Bowl, but watched 90% of the game on the giant video screen to our left because they just couldn't keep getting up and down or stand with the crowd. We tried to stand sideways, whenever we got up, so they could see the field a bit. It's fans like that that I feel the happiest for. They probably thought they would never see an Eagles Super Bowl win in their lifetime. 
  • When the Hail Mary was in the air I swear the entire stadium was silent for a half-second as the ball came down into the crowd of players in the endzone. I just watched the highlights on "Inside The NFL" last night and it didn't quite sound that way, so maybe I blacked out for that half-second. But I know sound didn't exist for me. And then when the ball bounced off the turf, everything came back, and loud. 
  • My brother-in-law (and many others) didn't even realize the game was over and we did it. There was 9 seconds on the clock so he didn't think the play took that long. I saw the ball bounce, looked to my right, where he was standing, and saw the zeros on the game clock behind him and said, "That's it! We won!!" and he looked at me confused and said, "Wait, what? It's over?" and then started celebrating.
  • I didn't agree with three calls by Pederson. First, chasing the missed extra point by going for 2. Didn't like the decision and didn't like the play call, but also pissed they didn't call PI or Def Holding, especially after calling it on us the series before for a way less obvious. Second, going for it on 4th down before the end of the half. Boy was I wrong! That "Philly Special" play goes down in NFL history, not just Eagles history, for many reasons (time of game, score, down, distance, balls to call a trick play, have the QB be the receiver, and after NE tried something similar and failed spectacularly!!) And third, thought the WR screen to Agholor that lost us 8 yards was dumb. Many were upset he didn't pass with 2:03 in the 4th, after the NE timeout, but I was ok with being conservative there. Don't want to risk a strip sack (looking at you, TB12!), losing yards, or another fluky deflection for an interception. Grind it forward, maybe get a first, of not you're still in position to go up by 8.  
  • My season ticket seats are 18 rows from the field, at the 30. For SBLII, we were 11 rows up in the upper level, at the pylon and it was the most frustrating view because play after play, we could clearly see the Pats WRs getting open (by miles.) When you're almost ground level, you don't see all that open, empty field around players that are open. But from above, it was nauseating. 
  • After the game, and the post-game celebration, we drove 90 miles to our hotel in Wisconsin and walked into a lobby full of Eagles fans also back from the game. That was the theme the rest of the trip. When we stopped for lunch the next morning on our drive back to Chicago, the Culver's had Eagles fans also making a drive. When we got to the airport, there were other Eagles fans stranded there, and when we finally got a flight out Tuesday, I sat next to another fan that went to the game. 
I'm waiting for a full replay of the broadcast (not just the NLF Network condensed gamecast) to see the game that way. Also want to hear how bad Collinsworth was!  

Don't tell my wife, or my kids, but it was probably the most memorable thing of my life. Our wedding day went by so fast I only remember bits and pieces. Kids' births are a close second, but remember every detail from the game so vividly and in the days since have repeatedly seen clips, heard it discussed, etc. that it's just going to be more indelible. 

Yet, it still doesn't feel real...
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Love this. So happy (and jealous) that you got to experience that.  You get scalper seats or they drop in price on stubhub?

 
Deamon said:
Love this. So happy (and jealous) that you got to experience that.  You get scalper seats or they drop in price on stubhub?
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We held out until Saturday morning, after we landed. Prices came down a bit Friday and that morning, but still paid a little more than we planned and probably could have saved a few hundred by waiting until that night or next morning. But it was worth the peace of mind to have secured tickets. We got them through TicketIQ and picked them up at a hotel Starbucks in Minneapolis Saturday night. 

 
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The Noid said:
Hell yeah! Just got back last night after spending the night in Chicago because of weather and cancelled flights.

IT. WAS. AMAZING!!! It felt like a home game. Our section was mostly Eagles fans. The Eagles fight song and E-A-G-L-E-S chants are well documented, but what I haven't seen mentioned is that ALL the things from our home games were there:

  • The AC/DC pre-game intro music (plus the addition of "Dream and Nightmares" when they came out of the tunnel)
  • The Adrian "Win!" and "What are we waiting for?" clips from Rocky
  • Swoop and the E-A-G-L-E-S flag runners after every score
  • The fight song after every score
  • The third-down chime
I don't know if it's because the Pats just don't have as many of those things, or maybe I didn't even notice them because I couldn't care less (or they're just lame), but it felt like we got to bring EVERYTHING from The Linc with us which only compounded the taking over of the stadium.

My estimate was 55% Eagles fans, 35% Pats fans, 5% Vikings fans that bought tickets before the NFC Championship game and were still salty and anti-Eagles, 5% other. The stadium was still at least half-full after the clock hit 00:00, which backs that up. We had a pair of Pats fans in the seats to my left that couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Other random things:

  • The longer the review of the Ertz TD went on, the more antsy the crowd got. They gave everyone a Bud Light plastic Tervis-type cup with a "puck" in the bottom that would light up blue when the Pats scored and Green when the Eagles scored. I think, no doubt, if that got overturned after we saw the replay 5 or 6 times where he took 4 steps with the ball before diving for the endzone, those cups would have been projectiles and we would have a new black mark on our fan reputation. Later, I heard an interview with Ertz where he said something like, "I don't even want to know what would have happened in Philly if that got overturned" and he was absolutely right.
  • An Eagles fan in our section (345) had a heart-attack or some type of cardiac event when the game ended. Like, no joke, chest pains, couldn't breathe, passed out and they had to take him out on a gurney (when he regained consciousness.) 
  • Behind us sat two 80-some, vets and Eagles fans that paid who-knows-how-much to be at an Eagles Super Bowl, but watched 90% of the game on the giant video screen to our left because they just couldn't keep getting up and down or stand with the crowd. We tried to stand sideways, whenever we got up, so they could see the field a bit. It's fans like that that I feel the happiest for. They probably thought they would never see an Eagles Super Bowl win in their lifetime. 
  • When the Hail Mary was in the air I swear the entire stadium was silent for a half-second as the ball came down into the crowd of players in the endzone. I just watched the highlights on "Inside The NFL" last night and it didn't quite sound that way, so maybe I blacked out for that half-second. But I know sound didn't exist for me. And then when the ball bounced off the turf, everything came back, and loud. 
  • My brother-in-law (and many others) didn't even realize the game was over and we did it. There was 9 seconds on the clock so he didn't think the play took that long. I saw the ball bounce, looked to my right, where he was standing, and saw the zeros on the game clock behind him and said, "That's it! We won!!" and he looked at me confused and said, "Wait, what? It's over?" and then started celebrating.
  • I didn't agree with three calls by Pederson. First, chasing the missed extra point by going for 2. Didn't like the decision and didn't like the play call, but also pissed they didn't call PI or Def Holding, especially after calling it on us the series before for a way less obvious. Second, going for it on 4th down before the end of the half. Boy was I wrong! That "Philly Special" play goes down in NFL history, not just Eagles history, for many reasons (time of game, score, down, distance, balls to call a trick play, have the QB be the receiver, and after NE tried something similar and failed spectacularly!!) And third, thought the WR screen to Agholor that lost us 8 yards was dumb. Many were upset he didn't pass with 2:03 in the 4th, after the NE timeout, but I was ok with being conservative there. Don't want to risk a strip sack (looking at you, TB12!), losing yards, or another fluky deflection for an interception. Grind it forward, maybe get a first, of not you're still in position to go up by 8.  
  • My season ticket seats are 18 rows from the field, at the 30. For SBLII, we were 11 rows up in the upper level, at the pylon and it was the most frustrating view because play after play, we could clearly see the Pats WRs getting open (by miles.) When you're almost ground level, you don't see all that open, empty field around players that are open. But from above, it was nauseating. 
  • After the game, and the post-game celebration, we drove 90 miles to our hotel in Wisconsin and walked into a lobby full of Eagles fans also back from the game. That was the theme the rest of the trip. When we stopped for lunch the next morning on our drive back to Chicago, the Culver's had Eagles fans also making a drive. When we got to the airport, there were other Eagles fans stranded there, and when we finally got a flight out Tuesday, I sat next to another fan that went to the game. 
I'm waiting for a full replay of the broadcast (not just the NLF Network condensed gamecast) to see the game that way. Also want to hear how bad Collinsworth was!  

Don't tell my wife, or my kids, but it was probably the most memorable thing of my life. Our wedding day went by so fast I only remember bits and pieces. Kids' births are a close second, but remember every detail from the game so vividly and in the days since have repeatedly seen clips, heard it discussed, etc. that it's just going to be more indelible. 

Yet, it still doesn't feel real...
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Awesome post. ?? I had the same reaction after the Hail Mary. I couldn’t believe it took 9 seconds and it was actually over. 

 
McGarnicle said:
How cool is it that your first SB has all these awesome iconic moments? That play and Patricia's reaction, the ball going through Brady's fingertips, the Clement stiff arm, the strip sack and Brady sitting there afterward, defeated. And really just the fact that you were playing the Pats and they're all anyone was talking about. The point spread (and being underdogs vs. the Falcons and Vikings for that matter, AT HOME). No respect at all, and you shoved it right up their asses. You could not have scripted it any better.
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Beating last years Super Bowl loser........ last years Super Bowl winner,....... last years League MVP,....... this years league MVP........two coach of the year vote getters.....the top D in the NFL.......they just ran the table on knocking off upper echelon talent. 

 
JetMaxx said:
:lmao:  @ Foles settling the “home” crowd presnap. Eagles’ fans owned the Super Bowl.  :thumbup:
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the crowd seemed to go berserk on graham's strip.  i don't know if i just never noticed in SB or everyone was anti-Pats, but it certainly seemed like everyone was with the Eagles at that moment.

 
Thunderlips said:
Beating last years Super Bowl loser........ last years Super Bowl winner,....... last years League MVP,....... this years league MVP........two coach of the year vote getters.....the top D in the NFL.......they just ran the table on knocking off upper echelon talent. 
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With our backup QB!  :excited:  I don’t think you could write this up better. We won the SUPER BOWL!

 
Thunderlips said:
Beating last years Super Bowl loser........ last years Super Bowl winner,....... last years League MVP,....... this years league MVP........two coach of the year vote getters.....the top D in the NFL.......they just ran the table on knocking off upper echelon talent. 
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Worst team to ever win a super bowl. - Dan Forskin

 
DJackson10 said:
I'll be sure to give a nice lowdown on what happens at the end. My phone battery sucks at these events so I'm going out today to see if I can find a portable phone charger wireless I can take. Gonna have a backpack and put a few beers in there and have a few set aside when my Cousins and Uncles meet us so when they finally get to the art museum we can toast the title and my Pop-pop who's no longer with us. 
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Enjoy it man, we've waited a long time for this. :thumbup:

 
ShaHBucks said:
No rivalry.. Just eventually right being annoyed by perpetually wrong
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or you telling people in threads to kill themselves, etc. 

Anyways dont need to go back there, this is a time of celebration.

 
Bigboy10182000 said:
I really hope that job is a hard sell.  They already had assistants sign deals who were supposed to work for McDaniels.  I cant imagine that a new HC would go there under those terms.
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We need Reich to go SOON if he's going at all.  Minny is going to offer Fillipo that OC job the SECOND they're allowed to.  I would think he takes it unless Reich goes and we give him our OC job.

I almost want Reich to go, just to avoid the potential of losing both of them.

 
JetMaxx said:
The Philly Special. 

The look that Doug gives Foles after he calls for it is absolutely historic.
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I could watch that clip over and over again.  Just in total shock and you can literally see his brain processing it and wheels spinning. 

I don't even think Doug would have been upset if that play didn't work.  Nothing was going to stop him from being aggressive this game.  Nothing.

 
Deamon said:
I could watch that clip over and over again.  Just in total shock and you can literally see his brain processing it and wheels spinning. 

I don't even think Doug would have been upset if that play didn't work.  Nothing was going to stop him from being aggressive this game.  Nothing.
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He talked about this in yesterday's press conference.  He said as soon as they won the NFCC and knew they were playing the Patriots, that he knew he was going to have to be aggressive.  He also said that it is something just in his personality, even though he's mild-mannered on the surface, that being aggressive and wanting to win at every moment is just in the fiber of his being.  That he wants to score a TD on every play and get a loss of 5 yards on every defensive play.  I wondered if something about that message really resonated with Howie, in light of that article about 10-6 not being good enough.  And he's able to have this underlying tone of aggressiveness, all the while keeping it all together on the surface and seemingly never letting the moment get too big for him.

 
Deamon said:
I could watch that clip over and over again.  Just in total shock and you can literally see his brain processing it and wheels spinning. 

I don't even think Doug would have been upset if that play didn't work.  Nothing was going to stop him from being aggressive this game.  Nothing.
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I had doubts about Doug, but he seems to be like a perfect combination of Andy and Chip's good points.  He has the aggressive, analytical thinking we expected from Chip with Andy's ability to connect with players.  When Nick Foles suggested that play, Andy would have thought about it for 30 seconds and called a TO and Chip would have pulled an "I'm the coach, not you" power play and not called it out of spite.  Doug quickly processed it and trusted his players.

We all made fun of Lurie talking about emotional intelligence but I think he was on to something.

 
Tom Hagen said:
We all made fun of Lurie talking about emotional intelligence but I think he was on to something.
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He was.  I mentioned it in another thread, but I think there's a reason all the coaches on the Belicheck coaching tree seem to flame out, and all the coaches on the Andy Reid tree seem to have great success.  Not defining success merely as Super Bowls of course, but wins, longevity, etc...

 
NFL Network is broadcasting the parade today from 11 - 2 for those who can't attend and don't have access to local coverage. Hope everyone has a great time.

 
Deamon said:
or you telling people in threads to kill themselves, etc. 

Anyways dont need to go back there, this is a time of celebration.
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Let me see you go out on a limb, with full conviction, while dozens of people are calling you all sorts of things and finding ways to make fun of you just for having your own well thought out contrarian opinion. Dam right I’ll going to defend myself  

And then get proven right all along. I’m the best at evaluating talent on this board, especially at QB, period. You weren’t worth the time. 

 
Any truth to the rumor that in the clouds over Philly today can be seen Jerome Brown, Reggie White, and Buddy Ryan waving, sort of like Chubbs, Lincoln, and the gator at the end of Happy Gilmore?

 
Insein said:
Oh no. We're purging your Giants blood.
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They've been annoying the crap out of me in recent years but that's a bridge too far. I'll say that in recent years the Eagles ownership and front office make the Giants look like the Browns or Redskins and I never thought that would be the case. The way they handled Coughlin and then the McAdoo/Eli streak situation were both unforgivable. Now a big crossroads coming with Beckham. Meanwhile the Eagles rebuild in record time after Chip Kelly basically destroyed the team, and they look stacked for a multi-year run.

 
Just heard they won it on Jerome Brown’s Birthday.....that’s pretty awesome.   

How’s it going out there? Watching on NFLN looks awesome. 

 
BobbyLayne said:
Indeed. Some franchises are just now discovering 9-7 and the best 4-year stretch of the last 61 years #isnotgoodenough.
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nipsey - but when the comment is made "Well, which coaches out there could do better?".  The answer is "Doug Pederson"

 
ShaHBucks said:
Let me see you go out on a limb, with full conviction, while dozens of people are calling you all sorts of things and finding ways to make fun of you just for having your own well thought out contrarian opinion. Dam right I’ll going to defend myself  

And then get proven right all along. I’m the best at evaluating talent on this board, especially at QB, period. You weren’t worth the time. 
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Dude, we're in here celebrating. Stop your whining. You were no where to be found the years that Foles was struggling and couldn't even hold on to a starting job in this league. Now you want to come back and act like you're a genius? Get lost. 

Go Eagles!  Wish I could be at the parade with some of you guys.  I bet it's a blast.  :thumbup:

 
GoBirds said:
Just heard they won it on Jerome Brown’s Birthday.....that’s pretty awesome.   

How’s it going out there? Watching on NFLN looks awesome. 
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It was on Jerome's Birthday. I had heard it wouldn't have been his 52nd birthday, but it actually would've been his 53rd. He was born 2/4/1965

 
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