Posted on 02/05/2018 3:04:25 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Morning after the night before: Eagles fans leave Philly littered with glass, beer cans and downed traffic lights after night of exuberant Super Bowl celebrations
They call Philadelphia the City of Brotherly Love, but Eagles fans weren't looking out for each other on Sunday night, when they trashed the city celebrating their Super Bowl win.
On Monday, Philadelphians heading into work took to social media, sharing hundreds of pictures of the aftermath of Sunday night's Super Bowl celebrations.
From a collapsed awning outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel, which smashed under the weight of nearly a dozen people, to the countless traffic lights ripped to the ground, the damage showed what a mess 'Birds' fans can make.
While many of the overzealous fans were sleeping off hangovers, the city's workers got down to business cleaning up after their mess - boarding up shattered shop windows and sweeping up glass.
Cops who would usually be patrolling the streets were mitigated to directing traffic as municipal workers righted and repaired traffic lights.
Workers now have just three days to clean the city up before it hosts its Super Bowl celebration parade on Thursday. The Eagles returned victorious Monday as well, bringing the Vince Lombardi back to their hometown for the first time
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Your reading perception needs a little work. There were qualifiers if you will recall. After a football game, down here, which you went on to conflate with soccer and apparently South America. You’re not American, are you?
I wonder how many of them were fans but rather thugs and druggies using it as an excuse?
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