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The Eagles Beat The Patriots With A Heaping Dose Of Their Own Medicine
The Philly Special will rightly be the play that forever defines the Eagles’ victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl 52. But such ballsy trickery wasn’t some one-off bit of well-executed brilliance: The Eagles rolled up 538 yards and scored 41 points on the Pats, and they did it by doing a lot of th...
Eagles’ Jason Kelce Cuts An Incredible, Profane Promo At The Super Bowl Parade
Jason Kelce—dressed in a Mummers outfit from the Avalon String Band—delivered an absolutely bonkers five-minute promo at the Eagles’ victory parade. He talked about team executive Howie Roseman losing his power struggle with Chip Kelly, called Ringer doofus Mike Lombardi a “clown,” sarcastically lis...
Eagles Fans Are Not Disappointing At Today's Parade
The Eagles’ Super Bowl parade is currently underway, and center Jason Kelce got things started on the right note. Philly fans have since livened up the festivities in their particular way....
Jason Kelce Is Having A Great Time At The Eagles’ Super Bowl Parade<em></em>
The Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl parade is today. Jason Kelce—dressed as a Mummer—is already having a good time, as you can see from this clip from Action News....
The Only Thing That Works About The NFL Is Football
My friend tackled Shaun Alexander. Not recently, I should note. This was years ago, and years before the brief period during which Alexander was the best running back on earth. Alexander led the league in rushing in 2005 and was voted NFL MVP by the Associated Press, and then was out of the league ...
Breaking Down The Philly Gas Station Looting Footage<em></em>
The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions, and the city is still here....
Nick Foles Called The “Philly Special” Play Himself
The “Philly Special”—the trick play at the end of the first half of Super Bowl 52 when backup tight end Trey Burton took the ball on an end around and threw a touchdown pass to quarterback Nick Foles—is already etched in the mind of every Philadelphia sports fan....
We Ate Lutefisk And Didn’t Die<em></em>
So this is lutefisk, and it sucks. It’s fish that been preserved in lye and broken down into a strange jellylike texture, which is exactly as appeitizing as it sounds. We bought it because we were in Minnesota and it seemed like a very Minnesota thing to do even though virtually NO Minnesotans eat t...
Malcolm Butler Releases Statement, Denies Missing Curfew
Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler, who remained mysteriously benched for the Super Bowl while the Patriots surrendered 538 total yards to the Eagles, has released a statement denying thinly sourced reports that he was held out of the game because he missed curfew....
Let's Play Broomball: The Other Ice Sport!
Any asshole can play hockey, but the delightful Minnesotan sport of BROOMBALL is for TRUE ICEBOYS. ...
Report: Foxboro Police Called To Rob Gronkowski's House For Reported Burglary
Police were called to Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski’s house this evening for a reported burglary, according to Boston 25 News....
Lily Foles Shows What True Poise Looks Like In The National Football League
Let’s talk about what’s needed to be a truly outstanding representative of the National Football League on the big stage. Let’s talk about poise. Let’s talk about composure. Let’s talk about grace under pressure. Grit! Balance! A cool head! You know who embodied all of that last night? More than any...
The Deadspin Eagles Idiot Visited The Mall Of America
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — When it opened in 1992, the Mall of America was so big the owners offered rentable cell phones so shoppers could contact each other throughout the mall. It is now the second-largest mall in the country in terms of gross leasable space, behind the King of Prussia Mall in suburban...
Doug Pederson Dethroned The Patriots By Taking Every Risk
The Eagles outpunched the Patriots in Super Bowl 52, with Nick Foles somehow keeping pace with Tom Brady even with Brady performing at the top of his game. The Eagles fused their play-calling, play design, and use of personnel packages into an attack so modern, so devastating it humbled Bill Belichi...
Allegedly Enormous-Donged Eagles QB Leads Team To Super Bowl Victory
The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions after defeating the New England Patriots 41-33 Sunday, and they couldn’t have done it without the stellar performance from backup quarterback Nick Foles and his reportedly gigantic hog....
Nick Foles's Trick-Play Touchdown Catch, As Called By A Dozen Announcers Worldwide
The bulk of Deadspin’s staff declared the Eagles’ fourth-down, trick-play pass to quarterback Nick Foles their favorite moment of last night’s Super Bowl. Here, then, is how a dozen broadcasters called the play—ranging from Kevin Harlan on Westwood One radio to Gerard Whateley on Australian radio to...
That Super Bowl Was Everything Anyone Could Have Asked For
Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles scored a fourth-down touchdown with one of the most inventive plays in modern Super Bowl history, averaged over six yards per rush, and punted just once. Yet they were somehow, statistically speaking, the Super Bowl’s second-best offense. Tom Brady’s 505 passing y...
Upon Further Review, The NFL Dodged A Bullet
Thank god for Brandon Graham. It was his effectively game-sealing strip-sack of Tom Brady—an actual, incontrovertible football play, a display of the kind of strength and athleticism and determination that bring us to the sport in the first place, a moment for which there was no reason to doubt your...
Performance Isn't Tied To Morality, EXCEPT FOR THE WORLD CHAMPION PHILADELPHIA EAGLES<em></em>
Be a happy and honest sports fan with this one simple trick: understand that moral values have nothing to do with on-field performance. That’s a foundational principle of this website, as far as I can tell, but abiding by it will stop you from making mistakes that have nothing to do with sports. It ...
Donald Trump's Super Bowl Shindig Was So Weird
One of the many odd sidebars to the Trump presidency has been seeing what happens when an unsocialized puff pastry who has lived his entire life in an environment custom-built to nurture his weirdest impulses is suddenly asked to do the sort of ceremonial normal things presidents are supposed to do....