Early reports are that the Super Bowl television ratings last night were the lowest in last 8 years. Not terribly surprising.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Yeah, riot reports are overblown.

I'm not so sure about that.

Four of the Eagles players (Jenkins, Long, Smith, Blount) aren't going to the White House because they are progressives. Screw em. The coach, quarterbacks, and a lot of their other star players are classy guys who constantly talk about God.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'm not so sure about that.

Right after they won it looked like Time Square at New Year's around City Hall for blocks down Broad Street. There were thousands of fans at Cottman and Frankford as well. I don't have a number, but there had to be hundreds of thousands of fans and there weren't any burning cars or smashed store windows up until 3 AM Philly time when people started to disperse. People were just standing in the street cheering and setting off fireworks. Sure, they climbed a few poles and the fence at City Hall, but they weren't violent.

Millennials acted like millennials tend to act in groups and went nuts in a WaWa. Outside of that the reports are really overblown. It wasn't LA after a Lakers championship with burning cop cars.

All I can say is BFD that your "team" won a championship. In the grand scheme of things, this doesn't move the needle at all. Any public disturbance at all over something so trivial is far too much.

I'd like to see pro football shut down for all time in this country. That would make me smile.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Yeah, riot reports are overblown.

Perhaps. Unless it's your car/family/business that's involved.

Yes, how much destruction of property is acceptable? None. Zero. Zilch.

*shrug* People like what they like, and that's all well and good. Thing that annoys the livin' hell out of me is my obsessions aren't supported on the backs of taxpayers that do not care. My obsessions don't interrupt others' TV viewing preferences. My obsessions don't result in civil disturbances of any magnitude.

In short: My obsessions aren't incessantly shoved in the faces of people who not only don't give a damn, but may even find them distasteful.

I've become so fracking tired of hearing about "sports" every damn time I turn around that I've come to hate them. To the point, now, that when I eventually get my bar back, the Red Wings memorabilia is going to the landfill. Or my next-door-neighbour's burn barrel.

Come on guys, it wasn’t so bad

For your entertainment or consternation, Here’s some things that were caught on the police scanner last night..


ForUpdate, Feb. 5, 11:46 a.m.: Philly erupted into celebration last night following the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory. While reports indicate that the revelry was largely peaceful, many of its excesses were captured via police scanner chatter as officers mobilized to contain the pandemonium.

10:20 p.m. “Thousands going south on Broad Street from Spring Garden.”

10:36 p.m. “We need somebody at Broad and Walnut, southwest corner. People on the pole.”

10:40 p.m. “I got about 2,000 college students coming from Walnut Street to 30th to Center City.”

10:46 p.m. “It’s endless, chief. Endless.”

10:50 p.m. “I got people coming up the ramps on 676 eastbound. I don’t have a clue how they’re getting up … Should I go up to get those people off 676?”

10:53 p.m. “About four stories above the Wawa we got people out on the ledge. I can’t tell how they came up. If they’re not allowed to be there can we get them down? … They’re coming out of the window up there.”


10:57 p.m. “Be advised that someone is flying a drone in the area at 1-5 and Market.”

11 p.m. “At 15th they’re lighting off fireworks.”

11:04 p.m. “We got a large crowd at City Hall climbing the fence.”

11:11 p.m. “They’re on top of trash trucks. There is to be no one on top of trash trucks, guys.”

11:14 p.m. “We have multiple people on Broad Street swinging on light poles.”

11:20 p.m. “Climbing the trash trucks at 13th and Market.”

11:23 p.m. “I got a group jumping up and down on tractor trailers now. Two white men in black jackets and blue jeans.”

11:25 p.m. “I need to get the fire extinguisher out of my trunk. I got a fire on Broad Street just south of South. Someone lit a Christmas tree on fire.”

11:26 p.m. “They just flipped a car over here. If you could get a medical response team over here, I’d greatly appreciate it.”

11:35 p.m. “Do you have medics over here coming to 17th and Lombard? We have a female here who was assaulted.”

11:37 p.m. “This is extremely horrible. We need rescue here. We got someone horribly injured from a fall.”

11:38 p.m. “They’re trying to tear multiple light posts down and I don’t have anyone to counteract it right now.”

11:42 p.m. “They’re climbing up the fire escape onto the roof of the building”

11:44 p.m. “A man jumped off the light pole and landed on his head.”

11:45 p.m. “We have a light pole down. On the east side of Macy’s corner. We have live wires.”

A fan celebrates in Center City after the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl on February 4, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A fan celebrates in Center City, Philadelphia, after the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl on Sunday.
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11:48 p.m. “I got two down that fell off these light poles at Broad and Arch.”

11:51 p.m. “On the southeast corner the pole is about to collapse. There are about 40 of them on there.”

11:53 p.m. “We have a large crowd throwing bottles and chanting ‘Meek Mill.’ “

11:55 p.m. “We have a large fight at Broad and Ellsworth.”

11:58 p.m. “I got a male in custody in this location. He’s saying he’s an off-duty cop.”

12:11 a.m. “On Juniper and Market traffic lights are down. All signs are down.”

12:12 a.m. “At Broad and Market they’re throwing bottles at the cops. Please send SWAT teams over there in case we need them.”

12:24 a.m. “I got somebody jumping on top of the fire truck now.”

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Originally posted by italia:
Early reports are that the Super Bowl television ratings last night were the lowest in last 8 years. Not terribly surprising.

I read that this morning......wishes do come true!!

I rented a DVD and got some Burger King. Time well spent IMO as I won't watch any NFL games.