Here's what we know about the Eagles parade

We can’t speak for you but we are still soaking in all the feels from the Eagles’ annihilation of the Chiefs on Sunday. So we’re bringing you another all Eagles, all the time send. We’ll get back to the likes of the Sixers tomorrow. Even if we wish we didn’t have to.

In the email today:

• 🦅 Here's what we know about the Eagles parade

• 🦅 Sorry Bryce and Joel, it's Jalen's city now

• 🦅 Sirianni, like Pederson, is better and smarter than we knew

  • 📆 This Day in Philly Sports History

  • 📊 Poll

  • 🔗 Links

  • 📺 Coming Up

Were you hesitant to drop $10k on a Super Bowl trip to New Orleans to party on Bourbon Street? Did you decide you’re too young/old/sober/sane for whatever went down on Broad Street or Frankford & Cottman Sunday night?

We do not blame you.

At one point there was a man riding on top of the El. No joke.

So yeah… That’s not for everybody.

But there’s still the Eagles victory parade, one more huge party before we put a bow on Super Bowl LIX. And hopefully it’ll be significantly more family-friendly than the other celebrations.

The details of the parade will formally be announced at an 11:00 a.m. press conference Tuesday at City Hall. But here’s what we know already:

• The parade will be held Friday, February 14 ❤ due to the bad weather expected this week.

• There is at least one report that the parade route will be the same as the 2018 Eagles parade, starting at the sports complex and ending at the Art Museum.

• The forecast for Friday looks cold (26 degrees in the morning, rising to 38 degrees in the afternoon), but dry.

• The City of Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management announced that fans should text READYEAGLES (one word/no space) to 888777 to receive additional details as they emerge.

Bundle up, bring a warm drink, and let’s see if we get a speech that can rival Jason Kelce’s.

Recency bias is dangerous. While watching last night’s game, we got a text from someone who is old enough to know better comparing Eagles over Chiefs to Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson. Douglas was 42 to 1; Eagles/Chiefs was almost a pick’em.

So we know better than to overreact, and it’s not the immediate afterglow of a Super Bowl win that convinces us to say that Jalen Hurts has put Bryce Harper and (ESPECIALLY) Joel Embiid deep in his wake for the title of the city’s premier athlete.

Hurts doesn’t talk a whole lot, but when he does, he says a whole lot.

In that same clip, Hurts talks about how “things come right on time” and how losing the Super Bowl two years ago “lit a great flame in me and enhanced my desire to win.”

Is there another city where that sort of message could play any better? All Eagles fans ever want is players who care as much as they do — because the fans care so much, maybe too much.

Harper is (sort of) catching a stray here. He has done and said the right things since he came to Philadelphia. Does it occasionally come off as try-hard? Sometimes, yes.

But give Philadelphia fans (particularly Phillies fans) a guy who plays to their insecure desire to be loved over a surly, entitled boor any day of the week and twice on a promotional giveaway Sunday.

All Harper is missing is a championship, and while he didn’t play well in the 2024 postseason, Harper has plenty of clutch Phillies playoff history banked.

Which leads us to Embiid, who has neither the playoff accomplishments of Hurts and Harper nor their media savvy.

Uh huh. It’s over three months later and in that time Embiid has played in 16 of his team’s 52 games. And he might need another surgery.

So neither Harper nor Embiid have what Hurts now has — the earned respect of the fan base and the hardware to go with it.

Philadelphia belongs to Hurts now.

In Super Bowl 52, the Philadelphia Eagles, quarterback Nick Foles and head coach Doug Pederson beat the New England Patriots, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.

It still feels weird to read that, like it could never possibly be true. But it totally happened.

Selective memory allows a lot of Eagles fans to pretend that they never called for Pederson’s job or that some of them weren’t happy when he was fired.

Pederson didn’t always do himself favors at the microphone. And very few coaches survive 4-11-1 in this city. Some said Pederson won Super Bowl 52 largely because his players loved him and would go through walls for him, as if that was an indictment.

Seven seasons later, Pederson’s successor has won his first Super Bowl. And like Pederson, Nick Sirianni took his supposedly inferior quarterback and team and played giant killer to Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.

Also like Pederson, Sirianni can occasionally needlessly run himself into trouble with his mouth. His methods (particularly clock management and the two-point conversion) sometimes drive Eagles fans insane.

So what? Sirianni is 48-20 in four regular seasons, the last three of which saw the Eagles make the playoffs. Sirianni is now 9-6 in the postseason, with two Super Bowl appearances and, of course, one win.

And in another uncanny similarity with Pederson, Sirianni’s players revere him and trust him. We will see whether Sirianni burns fast and fades out like Pederson or instead builds a wrecking machine like the McNabb/Reid teams.

Regardless, the next time we want to run a winning coach out of town because he’s not Belichick or Reid, maybe we should sit that one out.

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Voting closes on February 16th—don’t wait!

📆 This Day in Philly Sports History

On February 11, 2001, Allen Iverson earned the MVP award in an NBA All-Star Game for the ages. Kobe Bryant led the West with 19 points.

📊 Poll

Results from Monday:

This was a close one, but you never forget your first.

🔗 Links

• 🔥 Sirianni acknowledged that last season’s ugly collapse motivated the Eagles to get it fixed.

• 🕒️ The Eagles didn’t much care for the Chiefs’ “three-peat” talk.

• 💵 The Chiefs can console themselves by seeing that they are co-favorites to win Super Bowl 60.

• ✒️ The whistle blew on the Super Bowl and suddenly the Eagles had a lot of free agent questions to answer.

• 📺️ For a game featuring two teams nobody likes, a whole lot of people watched the Super Bowl anyway.

📺 Coming Up

Games before our next send.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

• Raptors at Sixers, 7:00 p.m. (NBC Sports Philadelphia)

Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.

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