This is definitely an Eagles Owned City!
On Sunday, by 12 PM, I had my three televisions in the living room set up. With the two extra co-axel cables running through my living room, down through the garage roof, and through the wall, and the bedroom DirecTV receivers out in the living room and successfully connected to everything, I was pumped and ready to go for the 1 PM games with of course the Redskins-Eagles game on the 40 inch High Definition TV with the sound blasting. The other televisions would be muted but there for me to enjoy the rest of what the NFL had in store for the day. Yes indeed, the NFL Ticket on DTV is better than sliced bread.
Then the door rang and it was my Dad. After all these years, he and I still watch each and every Eagles game together. Our weekly tradition was only temporarily interrupted when I was away to college (WE ARE!! PENN STATE!!) and didn’t make it home on Eagles game day weekends. He walked in, said hello to the dog, put his stuff down, and sat in his spot. He looked up and said “good you have the Eagles game on the big screen, but can you put one of the other tv’s to the Phils game?”
Huh, what?! It’s October. The leaves are changing colors. The weather is getting cooler. Its week 5 of the NFL and he wants me to reduce my NFL intake by 33% for baseball?! I am a Die Hard Eagles Fan. It didn’t even occur to me that yes the Philadelphia Phillies are in the playoffs, but to watch the game while Eagles football was on?
I gave in. This way, we didn’t have to flip back and forth between the two channels on the big screen and risk missing an Eagles play or two as the channels takes forever to flash back. However, it turns out I am not the only one that feels this way.
The Eagles had a week 5 regular season game the same time the Phillies played for the winning game of their first playoff series. It turns out that the Eagles blew the Phillies away television viewing ratings wise. The Eagles drew a rating of 22.7 while the Phillies, again in a playoff game, drew a rating of 13.8.
My first thought was wow. But that quickly dissipated and my true feelings are shining through. I knew it. This place is Eagles country and will always be. Even if we are 2-3 and the Phillies are now in the NCLS. Yes, it is definitely Eagles country!
With that said, “E-A-G-L-E-S!! EAGLES!!”
