Plenty of franchises give away tickets to games on Twitter. The Philadelphia Eagles are just one of many. But after their ticket winner for Thursday night’s game against the New York Giants was announced, fans began to get suspicious.
Congrats to #FanFriday winner @YungYle! See you at #NYGvsPHI. #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/12z1giETUU
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) December 20, 2016
Twitter user @YungYle took home the tickets. It’s not the first time he won.
He won on December 9th.
Congrats to @YungYle for winning this week's @CSNPhilly #FanFriday. See you at #WASvsPHI! pic.twitter.com/kUA5bZ67nd
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) December 9, 2016
He won on November 25th.
Congrats to #FanFriday winner @YungYle! We'll see you at the game on Monday night. pic.twitter.com/ELqpXDeH4b
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) November 25, 2016
He won on October 21st.
Congrats to @CSNPhilly #FanFriday winner @YungYle! See you at #MINvsPHI.#FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/YbGXlfRtvy
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) October 21, 2016
And he won on September 9th, all this season.
Congrats to @YungYle who will be going to #CLEvsPHI as the winner of @CSNPhilly's #FanFriday contest. pic.twitter.com/FICdvgzbni
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) September 9, 2016
That’s five of the Eagles’ seven home games to date, and as another Twitter user notes, all five of those games had some sort of “special” circumstance to them.
https://twitter.com/mferrier31/status/811290224152219651
PhillyVoice also notes that the fan won three times in 2015, three times in 2014, and once in 2013 (for the season finale).
So…what the hell is going on here? How can one fan win a Twitter giveaway 12 times over a 24 game period?
Twitter has theories.
https://twitter.com/sexualjumanji/status/811278974194221060
The guy who wins isn't a real account they don't actually give away the tickets.
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
This is what they're doing to get RTs and follows. There are no tickets. https://t.co/w1QH3jEXXc
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
And get this… Guy hasn't tweeted a SINGLE picture of him at ANY of the games he won from the Eagles in the past 2 years
— Mark Magowan (@_magowan) December 20, 2016
🤔 Hey @Eagles you got some splainin to do bout this…#FanFridayGate pic.twitter.com/BLgZidmVMD
— no one's greatest fan again (@notyouravgma) December 20, 2016
Either the team is faking giveaways and lying to their fans, or they've allowed someone to rig the giveaway. Either way it's a big deal.
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
They give it to him when they don't actually have a ticket to give away. https://t.co/Px75AuyrSL
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
Let's say the guy legit wins every week, do they not keep track of the handles of people who win?
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
Like the best case scenario here is that an entire department doesn't know what the fuck is going on.
— Godzilla Shammgodzilla (@FanSince09) December 20, 2016
So either….
A) The Eagles are incompetent, letting this guy win every ticket giveaway they do, and not restricting him.
B) The guy is winning every week because someone is tipping him off ahead of time.
C) There are no tickets to be given away when this guy wins.
No matter what the actual case is, the Eagles don’t come off looking great. They’re either idiots or liars, and I’m really not sure which one is worse.
