Yo, Adrian: ‘Rocky’ has nothing on Foles’ story

IMINNEAPOLIS T was blaring from the speakers as green confetti lay strewn across the once spotless playing surface in this beauty of an NFL stadium, the song about trying hard now, getting strong now and flyin’ high now.

“Rocky” was a movie, and yet this was anything but fiction.

If you closed your eyes and Nick Foles was the one talking about moving forward and willing to take the hits and knowing what you’re worth and going out and getting it, well, you wouldn’t question a word and Hollywood might have another winning screenplay.

Lord help the streets of Philadelphia this day — someone at least protect the Rocky Balboa statue and check on that bell over at Independence Hall — because the Eagles are a Super Bowl champion for the first time.

The (under)dogs never have barked louder in Pennsylvania’s ▶ Page 5C ▶ Page 5C

largest city.

The Eagles put their financial trust in Foles before the season, and the quarterback more than delivered in its fi

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nal game, leading Philadelphia past defending champion New England 41-33 before 67,612 in Super Bowl

LII at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Minnesota did a wonderful job hosting the week, and just for giggles sake, gave the world a Big 12 shootout in a Big Ten town, where Tom Brady threw for a Super Bowl-record 505 yards, New England gained 613, never punted and still lost.

In a season when the NFL saw its television ratings drop 10 percent and several stars suffer major