The Ramblin’ Den
Welcome to The Ramblin' Den, the podcast where two best friends, Brandon and Kevin, tackle anything and everything—from wild conspiracy theories to debates over pizza toppings, and everything in between. No scripts. No filters. Just pure, hilarious chaos. Whether they're on the same page or totally disagreeing, one thing’s for sure: it’s always an entertaining ride. Tune in for unpredictable conversations, random thoughts, and a whole lot of laughs. Perfect for anyone who loves to ramble (or just listen to two people who do)! Join the fun in The Ramblin’ Den—you never know where we’ll end up next.
The Ramblin’ Den
Philadelphia's Passionate Sports Culture: From Eagles Super Bowls to Flyers Fanatics
Ever wonder why Philadelphia sports fans embrace being the "villains" of the sports world? We dive deep into the fascinating psychology behind Philly's notorious sports culture and how decades of media mischaracterization have shaped our collective identity.
The Eagles-centric conversation explores how fans have reconciled with their unfair reputation while celebrating their recent Super Bowl victory. Most revealing is our breakdown of Jalen Hurts' journey from doubted quarterback to Super Bowl MVP, highlighting the fascinating disconnect between how quarterbacks are evaluated through stats versus intangibles and winning outcomes. As Hurts himself proclaimed, "The game is going to look how Jalen Hurts wants it to look"—a philosophy that perfectly embodies Philadelphia's independent spirit.
We compare passion levels across Philadelphia neighborhoods (with Delaware County and South Philly representing peak intensity) and contrast different sports cultures, noting how NHL players battle through 82 games of violent physicality while NBA stars take "load management" days. This stark contrast in work ethic across professional sports reveals deeper cultural values reflected in each fanbase.
The pride of Philadelphia's sports community shines through our recollection of championship celebrations—from the Eagles' parade drawing over a million people to the legendary Broad Street Bullies parade of 1975 that brought an estimated 2.5 million fans into the streets when the Flyers were the city's only successful franchise. These moments transcend sports, becoming integral to Philadelphia's cultural heritage and collective memory.
Ready to understand the true heart of Philadelphia sports culture beyond the stereotypes? Subscribe now and join the conversation about what makes our fandom unlike any other in professional sports.
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Speaker 2:I turned it down, you turned it down.
Speaker 1:Hey, welcome back to the third third third episode of the rambling den. This is sylvia's favorite topic absolutely sports boys.
Speaker 2:Anyway, welcome sports to the rambling den. Live from philadelphia, pa, in the good old usa. We love you. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for coming in then and joining us tonight. We are, uh, really happy to have you. I am brandon and my co-host, kevin, and we are simply ecstatic to be back behind the mic. You may know us from a former show, the bks show. Uh, we uh are doing a little side project now. Uh, while bks show is under under construction mish maintenance, I don't know um, I would say standing, but not operating standing, but not operating there we go with the coaster shit again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1:Hey, we just finished the coaster episode and it kind of works. Yeah, you can refer to that in the last episode.
Speaker 2:Here we are, and it is, and live again, and live again on.
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Speaker 2:So we are going to do something, and that is, I think, in our link tree, once we get these podcasts up and once we get them published, and you can go to wherever you like to listen to podcasts and listen to the podcast in the link tree. I will provide you to, I will provide you guys with our Instagrams, uh, the ones where we uh, I'm a drone photographer, so that's mostly what you're going to see. There's drone, uh, drone pictures, a couple of selfies, give that man a follow for the love of God, we give that man a follow, uh, and then you'll see Kevin's Instagram as well.
Speaker 2:Give that man a follow. He does, when he feels like it, take absolutely amazing pictures, especially product photography. I tell him all the time, but he's a little bitch about it sometimes. Thank you, I want to take a picture.
Speaker 1:I have to be in the mood, yeah, but I mean you'll see nonstop stories you know of me, like what's on my wrist of that day.
Speaker 2:Or he's always let you guys know what he's up to who he's with. This weekend got a big weekend up in the Poconos, which I do intend to bring the camera. Intend, intend. Intend Doesn't mean it'll be used. I don't make promises anymore.
Speaker 1:Wow, I don't make promises anymore. That hurts my feelings. Listen, I do my best. My feelings are hurt.
Speaker 2:Because the guy has an eye and when he wants to he can produce extremely great photographs and you'll see that once I provide the link to our personal Instagrams. You'll see my eye with a drone in the sky.
Speaker 1:My eye with a drone in the sky. Didn't even know it. There we go.
Speaker 2:My eye with a drone in the sky. Oh hey, I didn't even know.
Speaker 1:There we go um my eye with a drone in the sky.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, we had, we did have planes, uh, and, and one of them was to eventually get up to the pocono so that I could fly that thing out there still gonna happen we're, we're gonna get it there, kev, we're gonna get a round two of uh, because I have such better command over the drone now and I know what I'm doing now we're gonna get around to of a car shoot uh, because the first one did pretty well, but I think what I know now I can really knock it out of the park. We're talking 400 feet in the sky and kev's just driving through a nicely wooded area and it just looks beautiful, that orange orange just popping. Like. I've got ideas. I love ideas. We'll talk about drone photography and photography, maybe in episode four. Maybe that's one thing we'll talk about.
Speaker 1:It might be the next one.
Speaker 2:But right now we're going to talk about the E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles Eagles. Now, I said that lightly, not too loud. Why? Why, you ask.
Speaker 1:well, because I was about to say. I was like I'm scared, what's going on?
Speaker 2:so you got like super sound.
Speaker 1:You're like little whale.
Speaker 2:Look everything, oh my god as you know, kevin and I uh are major uh sports fans for certain sports. So, kevin's, uh, I'm gonna rank kev's, I'm gonna see if I get this right. I'm going to put baseball first. No Damn Okay. So this is why. Right, okay, so no.
Speaker 1:I mean it's very close. I'm going to think about it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to put hockey first, then I'm going to put baseball, then I'm going to put football. Correct, and everything else can suck a dick.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say suck a dick. Um, when they suck a dick, well I would actually put I would actually believe it or not, I would actually put some forms of racing over basketball and stuff like that. Too.
Speaker 2:Well, basketball, because like, the basketball is a dead sport right now and it's something I could go on and on about. It's a terrible. There's a terrible product out there. Yeah, uh, the players are fully guaranteed contracts. But I mean I would love, wouldn't you love, to get a fully guaranteed contract and uh, guess what? You, you, you can take off whenever you want.
Speaker 1:You don't have to show up Must be nice, right.
Speaker 2:You don't have to show up to work, you don't. You don't have to be there. All those people paying tickets to come see you and your name and see you play basketball because they believe in you and they believe in the team. They want to win a championship, but you need load management, mind you. Base they believe in the team. They want to win a championship, but you need load management, mind you. Baseball players play 162 games Hockey, which is the most physical besides football, which is the most physical, taxing game, because you fight, you get body checked, you get slammed into the ice, you're going 100 miles an hour. You're chasing after a puck. That's this big.
Speaker 1:And getting beamed with one of those things, dude.
Speaker 2:It's, it's, it's probably our most. Thank you, canada, it's most of our. One of our most violent, fastest Fucking love hockey man Sport Fucking love hockey that we have. Those guys play 82 games just like, just like the, just like the NBA, yet they have a much more physically demanding and none of those guys, none of those guys will take a day off if they don't have to.
Speaker 1:And not just that, they don't get paid jack shit compared to any of the other sports.
Speaker 2:Exactly so. They show up for the fans. They show up because they have good work ethic. They show up when they're battered. They show up when they're broken because, at the end of the day, they're playing for the guy next to them. They're playing for a dream, they're playing to get a Stanley Cup and that's what they want to do. And that kind of mentality is missing from the NBA. The NBA has become unwatchable. Everybody's just jacking threes. I love Steph Curry. Steph Curry is a unique player, a generational talent.
Speaker 1:I hear his name thrown around a lot, but again, I'm so out of the game with basketball. I haven't been in the whole in the know with basketball since the fucking Jordan and Iverson days, bro, and that's when basketball was actually awesome. It was awesome.
Speaker 2:What did you think? Iverson Steph Curry is the most elite three-point shooter that has ever existed. I mean pure shooter, I mean this guy is that right?
Speaker 2:he is. I mean, you're talking half court shots, bro, like nothing, like nothing and in double coverage, like this guy is special, he is special and uh, he, he, he set records, he's, he's made the most three points in nba history. He's, he is lethal, uh and uh I. He started to make that kind of shot popular and the next thing you know, um, now, now, this, this is the nba today. Nobody's driving down the middle. You got guys that are seven foot tall, like like joella and bead and wendy, some giants they three-pointers instead of dominating the paint, I mean.
Speaker 2:Joel Embiid, though he seems to be made of glass, could literally score 40 a night.
Speaker 1:It's between him and Carson Wentz, probably the two, mr Glenn and Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2:And any idiot who didn't want to play for the Flyers.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that guy, yes, oh that idiot. He came, he's on the Ducks now he's on the Ducks.
Speaker 2:He went and put on a lighter shade of orange. He didn't want to play for us. He didn't want to play for us.
Speaker 1:The shade that he had at that first game this year. I was crying. He deserved it. At that first game this year, I was crying. He deserved it and they got absolutely rocked Yep, molly whopped Yep.
Speaker 2:And you know what he deserved every single boo he got. I can't even remember the guy's name because-.
Speaker 1:Me neither. I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 2:He had an he was said to be a generational talent. That guy, he was supposed to be special.
Speaker 1:And he's not even that good. That's the funny thing.
Speaker 2:He could have been.
Speaker 1:He could have been. Could have been If you're on the right squad, but he was in the he's on he didn't want to do the work.
Speaker 2:I don't think he wanted to do the work.
Speaker 1:No, you know what it was.
Speaker 2:I think the Flyers wanted him to stay and earn his spot on the team. They wanted him to go back to the farm and he didn't. Hey, go ahead, leave, yeah, you left. So you could have left gracefully, yep, but you decided to be a dick about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And when you be a dick.
Speaker 1:He literally was like I don't want to play for this team and when you're a dick about it in the city of Philadelphia understand it's going to come back and bite you in the ass.
Speaker 2:It's not even just the city of Philadelphia, I think the city of Philadelphia, philadelphia, it's pretty lenient when you go out to those real hockey heads out in Delco oh bro, if they could get their hands on you they'd fuck you up. They're not forgiving, especially out in Delco, especially when it comes.
Speaker 1:I'll say they're still worse with the Eagles, though no basketball.
Speaker 2:Delco has no room for error with the.
Speaker 1:Eagles, they will not tolerate it. None, there's some animals around, delco man yeah they will not tolerate.
Speaker 2:So I live in North Philly. We're pretty hardcore about them. We don't—I don't think we go as hard—and I could be corrected, but I don't think we go as hard as Delco. And the only reason I can speak to Delco is because I'm originally from Delco. I've just been living in Philly for like 12, 14, 15 years now, so, but I know, I know the Delco sports fan. I've experienced them and they don't have the patience, no, for even a bad quarter of football.
Speaker 1:Nope, from the Eagles. You should see some of the bars, dude. I'm telling you right now of football. From the Eagles. You should see some of the bars, dude. I'm telling you right now some of the bars we went to, that we go to for games, shout out.
Speaker 1:Brewskis Shout out JT Brewskis Shout out Marty McGee's Shout out Casey's. I'm trying to think of other ones we go to for Eagles games. Those are definitely the top three, but honestly Marty McGee's is probably the ones we go to for Eagles games the most, most, but anyway, um, yeah, there's, there's, there's no there's no quarter.
Speaker 2:No, there's no quarter, no, um, and, and you can say that's being over, over passionate I wouldn't even I mean I.
Speaker 1:They're just another level of passionate. It's it. Yes, they are obnoxious, there's no doubt about it. But I will tell you right now they are, they care. It's an undying love for that football team.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to put Eagles first. No, I'm going to put the Eagles first for.
Speaker 1:Delco. I can't. I'm going to put the Eagles first for Delco. Oh, I thought you were talking about it for yourself.
Speaker 2:I'm going to put the Eagles first for Delco.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sixers are there, but they haven't been there since Allen Iverson, I agree. So if you're on Delco, understand it's a different breed of sports fan. You know what? The only people I know that can keep up with Delco when it comes to passion and fire is South Philly, because y'all are cousins practically.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:South Philly is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they might as well be connected south philly and delco.
Speaker 2:I mean it is outrageous I agree sometimes how incredibly insane they can be I mean, look at yo you ever?
Speaker 1:you ever been to? I'm sure you have, but you ever been to chicken pizza in south, south philly? I real talk, please. I'm very fucking hard.
Speaker 2:I'm very honest, I've never been to chicken pete's okay I've never been to live casino fair down there um.
Speaker 1:I that's not the part that goes delco.
Speaker 2:Chicken pete's goes delco I prefer it's crazy when there's games on it's nuts I have been to an eagles game so I'm not gonna sit there and be like no, I've been to an eagles game. I experienced a little bit of tailgating before the game. I remember walking into the stadium and guys just handing me random beers as we walk into the stadium, dude tailgating in an Eagles game is another animal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's another animal. I mean, it's insane. I've tailgated for.
Speaker 2:Phillies games.
Speaker 1:A number of Phillies games, Flyers games, et cetera, et cetera, but I've only tailgated, I believe two.
Speaker 2:I mean they're roasting whole pigs out there.
Speaker 1:I think it was either two or three Eagles games I've tailgated and it is another. It's just one huge party. It's just, and the cool thing is that everyone loves each other. That's the thing Everyone loves each other in the tailgating.
Speaker 2:Yo, you want a beer man, yo, can you get me a beer man. It's like that, and you can walk from parking spot to parking spot and they'll come up to you and if they've got a sandwich on hand here, bro have a sandwich.
Speaker 1:There you go, have a sandwich. Yo yo come play a. Play a game with cornhole with us. It's the best. People are pulling out their cornhole sets and shit oh, we need, we need a plus one come on, it's the best they'll just randomly come up to you, They'll literally pull you.
Speaker 2:I'm like yo, I need a plus one Come on.
Speaker 1:I will never deny that the Eagles fan base probably has the most fun out of any fan base of any sport I could possibly even think of. I think that is and even including the ones that I love, as you know, with the Flyers and Phillies, they come first for me. But I got to be honest Eagles fans have way more fun.
Speaker 2:I think it gets lost on the media, though, how innately good we are to each other, and I had Vikings fans sitting behind. Remember we came back from Busch Gardens, remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I had the home opener that night, monday Night.
Speaker 1:Football that was Vikings. That was Vikings.
Speaker 2:Vikings-Eagles home opener Monday Night Football. We had Vikings fans sitting behind us. I never treated them badly. Mm-mm, we had Vikings fans sitting behind us. I never treated them badly.
Speaker 1:The people around me didn't treat them badly. Wow, that's rare.
Speaker 2:At the end of the day, when it was over, did we? Laugh a little bit yeah.
Speaker 1:You guys lost. Friendly banter is a different story.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's when it gets to physical bullshit when it's too much. There's no reason. It's a sport, do they?
Speaker 2:pay your bills? No, fuck, no, do they care about?
Speaker 1:or even know who you are Fuck no, there's no reason.
Speaker 2:I hate Eagles fans getting so drunk that they fight other.
Speaker 1:Eagles fans. It's the worst, or.
Speaker 2:Eagles fans getting so drunk that they're purposely looking for, but it happens in every single NFL franchise.
Speaker 1:It does.
Speaker 2:That has fans. It's happened but within Philadelphia.
Speaker 1:You know, whose fan base gets to be rowdy is the Flyers. Yeah, they get to be rowdy because if they're, especially if they're facing a squad, that is like one of our rivals. Man, I've seen a. I saw this video. It was disgusting. One of our Flyers fan literally crawled over several rows of chairs just to cold cock a guy because he was happy about a goal. He literally crawled over several rows of chairs just to cold cock this guy.
Speaker 2:I'm like come on, man. So here's the thing I think Philly has decided. One of our theme songs is no one likes us, we don't care, so for a long time.
Speaker 1:And, honestly, sometimes I understand why people don't like it. I think even as.
Speaker 2:Philly fans deep down when we do some self-reflection, sometimes I understand why people don't like it. I think we I think even as philly fans deep down when we do some self-reflection we understand why. Yeah, but every every year, every year, without fail, espn always has to bring up santa claus. Everyone has to bring up santa claus and we always explain why santa claus happened. It was a skinny 18 year old kid, drunk off his ass. There were kids in the stand that believe in santa. He wasn't acting like Santa Claus, so he got pelted with snowballs. I'm sorry, like you're not acting like Santa Claus, you're acting like a drunk moron. You're ruining this figure for kids around. Kids are crying. Why is Santa acting like that?
Speaker 1:Why is Santa drunk?
Speaker 2:Why is he so skinny? Why is he stumbling? Why is he cussing Like this? What? This is Santa. So the parents were like, all right, fuck it, You're going to get snowballed. And he got pelted, and so it went all over the news and it defined us as a fan base to this day, and I think Eagles fans have tried, especially my age, my age bracket I'm 37. I think from 2004 on they've tried. They've tried to show a better side, but the media doesn't want to show it. So I think-.
Speaker 1:It's because they love to bash Eagles fans.
Speaker 2:Right, so I think we just-.
Speaker 1:Unless the Eagles are actually doing good, much like the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Well, we just embraced and said fuck it, we'll be villains. We just embraced the villain role and said fuck it, we tried to rectify the situation. You don't want us to rectify the situation, you want villains. We'll be your fucking villains. So now we're going to be your villains. That's why we Vikings fans Vikings fans to this day, who went to the NFC Championship game before we went to our first Super Bowl, Vikings fans to this day talk shit on Philadelphia are still angry about how their fans were treated in Philly.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, they're going to like here's the thing If you're coming to Philly, expect the Philly treatment period.
Speaker 2:Be warned about it.
Speaker 1:If you're coming to Philly in a different jersey. 100%, that's what I'm saying. Why do you think me being a Niners fan? Again, I've made it clear that I am an Eagles fan too, but that's why me being a Niners fan first, when I went to see the Eagles play the Niners in the home opener back in what? 2022? Something like that? No, that might have been 21. I can't remember now. 21, maybe I can't remember anyway. Long story short. Now you know what I think this was pre-covid okay, so this might be 19 18 yeah, it might have been 19 anyway.
Speaker 1:So this is why, when I went, I gotta, I gotta tell you right now I was not wearing any sort of I had. I did have a nines shirt on, but it was um a t-shirt it was just a t-shirt and you could see it, but it was just like light red. It was like very like subtle and I was wearing a philly's hat just to mix up the whole thing. I was like it's like wait a minute, wait a minute it's like it's a go wait you're.
Speaker 1:You're one of us, but you're not one of us. Just confuses shit out of everybody.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean yes.
Speaker 1:And then you know what, when they scored shit like that, I didn't do anything. That was it. Listen, I know how it works, man, I'm not messing around.
Speaker 2:Getting off the fans and all that stuff, because I've always had a ton to say about the fans. The one thing I will say is leave my quarterback alone he has proven more than proven himself you know what ash? I don't know if you're still watching dan and I. I have no problem leaving comments on anybody's. I'm always respectful, so anytime I saw dan put down jalen, I always let him know politely I was never out of pocket?
Speaker 2:I would never be, I would never dare um. But I always like nah, man, don don't talk about my quarterback like that.
Speaker 1:You're not. He's not the only one man. People went at him.
Speaker 2:He was like nah, nah, he's terrible, he's awful. He's not the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1:Dude Jalen did not have high hopes from the city of Philadelphia, I got to tell you, and I loved him the first two seasons I had a lot of hope in him and then I started to not going to lie. I got a little nervous and then he pulled out probably the best game of his entire career, which just so happened to be in the most previous Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Against the ever so great Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2:I want to say that I understand that people judge quarterbacks by stats and I think, when you argue with Can't look at stats all the time, well, here's the thing. That's what everyone's doing when it comes to Jalen. That's why they're devaluing his Super Bowl. That's why they're devaluing his importance to the team is because he's not Joe Burrow, throwing for 5,000 yards and 46 touchdowns every year. And the thing is is here. Listen, I understand.
Speaker 2:I understand why you are arguing with stats, because it's very hard to argue with math. If the math is right, there's no way to unprove it. You cannot undo it. So if the math is staring you in the face saying this is the math, this is true, the equations have been done right, how do you argue against that? It's very hard. You could say intangibles, he wins, blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, those who hang on to stats and judge a player by their stats will always win the debate because they have the numbers to back it up. They don't care about intangibles because they and they don't care about wins. Man, all jalen does is win. What do people say? Winning is a team stat. It's not an individual stat, because he's not playing an individual sport. Now, if it was tennis, right, okay you can count wins different story as an individual stat because he's not playing an individual sport.
Speaker 2:Now, if it was tennis, right, okay, you can count wins. Different story as an individual stat. So people don't give him the wins and people judge him solely based on his quarterbacking and the fact that he doesn't throw for 350 yards a game and four touchdowns. And people get upset about that because that's what they want to see. That's that old school quarterback that sits in the pocket, throws the ball, dissects defenses and, yes, is it pretty to watch? Is it amazing to watch? Yes, but what you're not understanding is that when jalen has to make the plays, jalen makes the plays and I won't disagree that what I love about jalen hurts is he.
Speaker 2:He's told you several times this year, even to Eagles fans he said the game is going to look how Jalen Hurts wants it to look.
Speaker 1:I mean, it is his stage. He said the game is going to— With the balls in his hands.
Speaker 2:That's what he said. He said Jalen Hurts is going to make the game how he wants it to look. And then he made it very clear before the Super Bowl interviews. After the Super Bowl, I do not care about my individual stats, I care about winning championships. So call me the weakest link on the team, call me whatever you want. Tell me I'm not an elite quarterback. Tell me I'm a barely above average quarterback. At the end of the day, I just walked away as a Super Bowl MVP and a Super Bowl champion, and you can never take that from me Goddamn right, and that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and honestly, between two players that were very unexpected for that game to look so goddamn good were him and Jake Elliott. Jake, man, jake redeemed himself, bro Jake redeemed himself. And at the best time that you could have redeemed yourself as a kicker.
Speaker 2:I mean we're talking 40. He looked incredible 48 yards out. He looked amazing.
Speaker 1:Nothing, I mean it was awesome, it was amazing, it was awesome.
Speaker 2:He said, all right, it's money time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's time to go.
Speaker 2:It was either this or he was going to be probably not on the team the next day and the crazy thing was If he did shit, I guarantee he would never. Yeah, but Howie had just extended him this season for another four years, Right. So Howie had faith in Jake. Howie had faith in Jake, but then the playoffs came. The end of the season. The playoffs came. He was missing, but it wasn't just him.
Speaker 1:This year was a bizarre year for NFL kickers, it was Justin Tucker keep it in your fucking pants, justin Tucker.
Speaker 2:My God, what is it with NFL players and getting a fucking massage? Do you need to come after every massage? Is it mandatory?
Speaker 1:Yes, sorry, I'm not an NFL star. This is irrelevant.
Speaker 2:As you heard, that Don't let this man go get a massage. He'll be like heavy ending.
Speaker 1:She's my massager. That's the best part.
Speaker 2:But what I'm saying is kickers were a mess this year. The whole league was a mess this year when it came to. When it came to that it was awesome. In my lifetime I realized how lucky I am to have witnessed the and been a part of Super Bowl wins. Okay, it's one thing getting to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful getting to the Super Bowl. Ah man, you're so excited. It hurts like hell when you lose. You don't know if you're going to win.
Speaker 1:I do envy you, though, because obviously I was only five years old when the Niners won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that you were like.
Speaker 1:Power Rangers are more important than this. That's the reason why I became a Niners fan. But I don't remember that, right? I just know that I was a Niners fan, right? That's all I know.
Speaker 2:So it's an amazing experience to have that Our first Super Bowl came and we had to wait 50 years, 50 some years, for our first Super Bowl, 50 some years to get our first Super Bowl, 50-some years to get our first Super Bowl. That's a lifetime man. Then we go back. In 2022, we lose to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1:And then the Niners lost to the Chiefs the year after. That Isn't that crazy. Here's the thing, and this is where all the knocking comes in it was a staggered. Did you notice that it was a staggered appearances?
Speaker 2:It was Eagles, niners, niners, eagles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2:Right, so Niners went Back to back Super Bowls. Niners lost. Back to back Super Bowls.
Speaker 1:To the Chiefs no, that's where it wasn't back to back. Well, it might have there was one year In between there.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you're right. You're right. I think LA won, you're right.
Speaker 1:Yep Shit the Bengals, Bengals. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Right, la won a Super Bowl in between that, so it was Niners. But regardless.
Speaker 1:They lost both Super Bowls. They performed against the Chiefs with.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But they did go to the bitter end in the most recent one, and that was in overtime.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But however, God damn, am I happy you guys took care of business.
Speaker 2:You know, and I made this crazy analogy right so we look at the first Super Bowl win that we had. It was literally during the Tom Brady reign.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was.
Speaker 2:And they had just won. The year before they were going for two in a row and if they had won, history dictates that they would have been the first team to three-peat, because they won the year after. We beat them with tom. So we interrupt the dynasty and then we go back and we start a dynasty and then we interrupt the dynasty again. We we not end it, but we interrupt another one. So I'm equating the eagles to when the nfl fandom is getting fatigue of one team always winning. Here come the eagles, shine our little light in the sky, we don't get it done and then we'll disappear until the next afc tyrant comes around, and then we'll be back and I kind of like that I do too.
Speaker 1:I kind of like, yeah, I do too. I mean I like that.
Speaker 2:I mean it's kind of the um you know five years in between, okay, as long as we're competitive, of course you want to win, but that's.
Speaker 1:But honestly, five years in between, two Super Bowl wins sounds really good compared to one Super Bowl win in the last 50. You know what I'm saying. Dallas Cowboys haven't won a Super Bowl in 30 years.
Speaker 2:The San Francisco 49ers haven't won a Super Bowl in 28 years. They have collectively between the two of them they have what for rubbing it in collectively between the two of them? They have what 11 championships?
Speaker 1:cowboys have five, niners have six niners have five, no five, so they have 10.
Speaker 2:They have 10 between them collectively yeah and both of them are going on almost an equal run of and then look at the one on look at the steelers.
Speaker 1:I can't say, look at the Steelers.
Speaker 2:I can't say mediocrity True. I can't say mediocrity, because at least the San Francisco 49ers have been to NFC Championship games and have gone back to the Super Bowl. What I cannot say about Dallas Cowgirl fans to their team, that whole organization that's run by decrepit old men, those guys that poor guy. Those guys right those guys, those guys have been mediocre at best, for 30 years At best.
Speaker 2:And you know what? Go ahead, wave your five Super Bowls in my face. We got two, we're on our way. Washington watch out because we're going to get three, and then we're going to be tied. And then New York watch out because we're going to get four, and then Cowboys watch out because we're going to get five.
Speaker 1:I guess the Niners got to watch out too.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, the Niners don't have a team anymore because they traded away or released absolutely everybody. I've heard people even say please.
Speaker 1:By the way, me and Brandon Are throwing hands After this episode, except he's just gonna Literally just take my, take my small ass and throw me out the front door. Oh, we got some food. That's the difference. Oh, it looks like there's food At the front door. We got some food at the front door.
Speaker 2:This is why we love doing podcasts.
Speaker 1:In real time. There is food. There's food being dropped off For the family, for the family.
Speaker 2:So hold on, Let me check.
Speaker 1:So quick pause. I want to talk to you guys for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're already a half hour in.
Speaker 1:Well, look at that Wow.
Speaker 2:We got to get better at this.
Speaker 1:We're going to get better at this. We're going to get better at this.
Speaker 2:Just bear with us.
Speaker 1:Did they just? They just left it there. We told them to leave it at the front door.
Speaker 2:We're going to end this episode in like all right five minutes.
Speaker 1:And that stinks, because you're going to get to talk about the parade, the wind.
Speaker 2:Let's just say it was magical, it was beautiful. We had a beautiful Super Bowl party at my house. I invited Kev, but little did I know that a couple of weeks before Don had already claimed the spot and everything like that. If we ever get to the super bowl again or I feel like we're going to do it I'll make sure to invite kev like three months in advance. But we had a beautiful gathering here with family and friends and we got to watch jalen hurts. Uh, just um, dominate, just being dominate, just do what he needs. You know how gratifying it was for you to text me and say Dan said yeah, I'm eating shit right now.
Speaker 1:He literally I'm eating crow right now. He literally he was right next to me. He said Kev, I need you to text Brandon real quick. I said why? And he was like I need you to tell him how wrong I was. That's what I like about Dan, and we'll eat his words like that.
Speaker 2:That was. It was so vindicating for Jalen. The commercial that they did for him was amazing. Oh yeah, love Hurts commercial.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love, hurts Love it.
Speaker 2:The parade was fantastic Over a million people.
Speaker 1:Ashley had a blast. Oh, by the way.
Speaker 2:She had ran into Ashley. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah she sure did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was some bar that was kind of sort of near the art museum, I believe. Yeah, I think it was like Tom's.
Speaker 2:No, tom's, yeah, it's around there, around there. But they ran into each other. Great parade Thankfully it wasn't, you know, scarred by anything. Truly terrible Chiefs who had people murdered at their parade. That does suck.
Speaker 1:I got to say something really quick about the parades, though this is insane. So for people who may not know this the equivalent to both the World Series parade back in 2008 to the Eagles parade in 2025 still did not have the number that the Broad Street Bullies aka the Flyers back in 75 had still did not have the number that the Broad Street bullies, aka the Flyers back in 75 had 2.5 million people.
Speaker 1:Something like that. And they couldn't even keep count, because the reason why is there was no barriers. Back then they didn't know what to expect. The streets were just flooded. They didn't have all that shit where they could just blot numb.
Speaker 2:And that is insane. Let's understand why At this point in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1:It's a time.
Speaker 2:At that point in the 70s in Philadelphia sports history.
Speaker 1:Brand new stuff. Brand new stuff.
Speaker 2:The Sixers were not good, the Eagles were not good, the Phillies were eh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Flyers were the Eagles of current day, basically the.
Speaker 2:Flyers were king of everything, yep.
Speaker 2:And I want to get back there to those times and when they won, it made sense Chaos Because of the times, yep, because of the times. Anyway, guys, listen, that's episode three. We're learning and we're going to do better and we're going to give you four, five and in, I guess, two weeks time or whenever we can get back together, you're going to have three episodes. Then you have another three episodes. We're going to make sure that you have content as consistently as we can give it to you. Uh and uh, hopefully you had a good time. It's great to be back go, flyers go, fly go.
Speaker 2:Phils and the eagles are still the super bowl champs, still a 26, saquon Barkley. Thank you, new York, and with that, my dear sweet brother Numsy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we hit the and another there. It is All right, guys, have a wonderful, wonderful day. Whatever you're doing, We'll see you next time.
