What a day. I truly didn't plan on going but the Eagles came through with what I considered completely reasonable priced tickets. My NFC Championship game tickets sold for more than what we paid so impossible to pass that up.
Shout out to Jojo for some info on some great spots to hit up for someone who has never been to NOLA before. Definitely helped us navigate our crew a little easier.
Absolute boots to ass beatdown on both sides of the ball that was enjoyable for every single second. Something we'll never see again. It was a party the whole way through.
I won't pretend that I know all the details from watching in the stadium so i'll be watching the broadcast later today or tomorrow to get a better feel for it all but anyone with eyes could see how the defensive line just absolutely mauled them and there was nothing the Chiefs could do. The offense was a buzz saw. They said "Hurts beat me" and he tore them apart.
I was wrong about Jalen Hurts, I was wrong about Howie Roseman. It's great to be wrong when it's in such a meaningful way. As always, I don't know shit about f***.
The group that i'm most proud of though for their performance was the fans at the stadium. I don't know if it came through on the broadcast but it was an absolutely masterclass by the fanbase. They brought it the entire game from the introductions which was absolutely amazing that we couldn't even hear Jon Hamm talk. The Chiefs were being boo'd out of the stadium and then the Eagles were introduced and goose bumps. That continued the whole damn game as we celebrated the whole damn game. Show a Chiefs can on the scoreboard? Boo. Show an Eagles fan? Cheers like the team just scored a touchdown. We deserve this. All of us. Past and present.
Which brings me to the moment that hit me the most. As many of you know my dad faced a few medical obstacles in the past which precluded him from traveling with my brother, my wife, and I to Minneapolis for LII despite us having a ticket for him. In what I considered a gross waste of money, my brother wound up not doing anything with my Dad's ticket and the seat stayed empty. The Eagles won. My dad would go on to pass away less then a year from that point. Yesterday? I went with two of my brothers and my brother-in-law. With about 8 minutes left in the second quarter, it hit me that the seat next to me was empty. It wasn't our seat. Within a minute, Cooper DeJean picked off that pass and brought it to the house. My dad was with us and all the nerves for the game disappeared. No one showed up in that seat the rest of the game.
This truly is for everyone in the fandom. For the ones that you watched your first game with, for the ones that you watched your last games with, for the ones that you introduced the Eagles to, and for the ones that are yet to come. Enjoy every second.
Go Birds.
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