The Philadelphia Eagles’ 38-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings in Sunday’s NFC championship game sparked a whole lot of interesting behavior afterwards. Aside from the guy who ran into a pole while chasing a subway train, there was plenty of other weirdness. For starters, there was the pole-climbing. Some fans climbed light poles after last week’s divisional round win over the Atlanta Falcons, so the city decided to grease up a number of poles in advance to try and prevent that. Did that stop fans? No. No, it did not.
The grease didn’t work. pic.twitter.com/it0XDv4Nvs
— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) January 22, 2018
A grease pole was conquered, if only for a few seconds. pic.twitter.com/MNnK7VXaCj
— Dan McQuade (@dhm) January 22, 2018
As Dan McQuade, who posted that last tweet, noted earlier Sunday, grease really shouldn’t be expected to stop fans:
The cops can grease the poles all they want. The fans will be ready. There is literally an annual greased-pole climbing competition in South Philadelphia. https://t.co/3XVp9ixntR
— Dan McQuade (@dhm) January 21, 2018
And greased-pole climbing competitions are present in plenty of other places too, so it probably should have been expected that this wouldn’t stop everybody. It may have slowed down some, though. Surprisingly enough, this may not have even been the weirdest thing to happen in the post-game celebrations Sunday night. How about this video, featuring both someone riding on top of a SUV and a shirtless man wearing one of the increasingly-popular dog masks:
https://twitter.com/BlueWaffleIron/status/955273564583800832
Beyond that, there were plenty of street parties:
Broad and Walnut. #eagles #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/uG1K9OXQj3
— Julia Terruso (@JuliaTerruso) January 22, 2018
This is Broad & Shunk. I asked one guy what would happen if the Eagles won the Super Bowl. "They might have to call the military," he said. pic.twitter.com/kKh8xx9T1F
— David Gambacorta (@dgambacorta) January 22, 2018
And even Charles Barkley, previously featured on TV during the game, told a reporter afterwards “I’m tired of you now. I’m going to go finish getting drunk.”
This is why we love Chuck! 🤣 #FlyEaglesFly https://t.co/yP4GowPbcI pic.twitter.com/wBaOlQOy4y
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) January 22, 2018
Godspeed, Chuck.
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.