GRATEFUL DEAD!
Eagle fans’ ashes fly at victory parade
Now they’re dust in the win! Some rabid Eagles fans spread the ashes of dead relatives on the streets of Philadelphia Thursday during the city’s raucous celebration of its first-ever Super Bowl victory.
The fans scattered the remains along the five-mile route, while others simply clungg to cremation urns as theyy watched the three-hour celebration.
“It feels good,”od,” Philly native Dustintin Slaughter told The Philadelphia Inquirerirer as he held his pop’s ashes.shes “It feels good to have him with me for a day like today.”
Another devoted fan flew over 1,000 miles from Tampa, Fla., to spread his grandfather’s ashes at the parade.
A video posted on Twitter showed the man, wearing a re- tirtired Jerome BrBrown No. 99 jersey, dumping the remainsremain out of a small plastic bag. Other fans showed up Wednesday night to get the best spots, sleeping outdoors next to barricades along the route on Broad Street. Schools, museums, courts and government officers closed for the event, which began near the team’s Lincoln Financial Field stadium at 11 a.m. and ended at the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps that Sylvester Stallone famously climbed in “Rocky.”
Some Eagles fans soared to new heights — climbing into trees, hanging off of lampposts, sitting atop bus shelters and scaling garbage trucks and porta-potties to catch a glimpse of their NFL champions.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie held up a sign that said, “Thank You Fans” and smiled from an open-top bus with Super Bowl MVP quarterback Nick Foles, who held the Lombardi Trophy.
At one point, coach Doug Pederson got off the bus to show off the trophy to screaming fans, who were earlier seen throwing bottles of Fireball whiskey and beer cans at the team’s parade buses.
Eagles offensive lineman Jason Kelce donned a lime-green and pink football-inspired sparkling outfit, topped with a feathered hat, and led folks in a chant that went, “We’re from Philly, f---ing Philly, no one likes us, we don’t care!”
Footage posted to Twitter by an Inquirer reporter shows two Eagles fans pouring beer from a first-floor balcony straight into a passer-by’s mouth.