Eagles fan with Massachusetts license plate leaves hilarious message on car
From Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, just south of Boston, to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, it’s a five-hour drive, about 300 miles.
So naturally, there’s a lot of mixing between Bostonians and Philadelphians, many people in Philly having gone to college at one of Boston’s many centers of higher education. Some of those Pennsylvania-proud folks end up with Massachusetts plates on their cars; it’s perfectly normal.
That didn’t stop one Eagles fan from putting a giant disclaimer of a note on his vehicle to keep the same people who once booed Santa Claus from vandalizing it.
The fan, who was not named in the report on NBC Sports Philadelphia‘s The 700 Level blog, said in the note:
“I AM AN EAGLES FAN! I had to register my car in MA when I moved to Boston for school, but I HATE the Pats!”
Curiously, the license plate frame suggests the Eagles fan in question graduated from “The U” in Miami. But let’s take the person at face value and not as a rogue Bostonian flying a false flag.
The fan continued, “PLEASE DO NOT VANDALIZE MY CAR” — three times, underlined and in all caps, — before concluding with “GO BIRDS.”
Which, considering what that indicates about the person’s opinion of fellow Philadelphians, that they would otherwise consider the car an appropriate target for the Massachusetts plates, brings to mind a thought about Eagles fans and the brotherhood of “Fly Eagles Fly”, namely …
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Sports fan behavior crossing the line between competition and gang mentality happens all the time; try wearing a Red Sox hat during a Boston visit to Yankee Stadium, or an American flag at Estadio Azteca for soccer.
Likewise, win or lose, sports fans have a history of bad behavior in public, whether it’s the riot in Vancouver after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins in 2011 or the people of Seattle having to take up a collection to fix $25,000 in damage to the Pioneer Square historic pergola after some rowdy “12s” broke it after the Seahawks beat the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.
So maybe a fan with Massachusetts plates just knows what the vehicle could face no matter what happens in the Super Bowl on Sunday, and wanted to avoid being another victim of overzealous tribalism.
As the NBC Eagles fan blog put it, in the event of a win, Philly should “celebrate like champions.”
And if they lose, “still, don’t vandalize. Because that is bad.”
Likewise, Bostonians shouldn’t need reminding at this point after five Super Bowl championships, three World Series rings, a Stanley Cup, and an NBA Finals win since 2001, but if the Patriots do manage to blow a Super Bowl they’re favored to win against a backup quarterback, please do try to avoid burning the city to the ground.
And if New England wins, do like Barry Sanders and just hand the ball to the ref like you’ve been there before and plan to be back.
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