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The Philadelphia Eagles’ upcoming game against the Dallas Cowboys has an elementary school in New Jersey allowing its students to display signs in the hallway.
FOX 29 Philadelphia aired footage of students at Cooper’s Point Family School in Camden, New Jersey, using punching bags with posters of Cowboys players taped to them. The footage went viral on social media.
The trick has generated mixed reactions.
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The Dallas Cowboys come into the game with a 4-5-1 record. The Eagles lead the NFC at 8-2 and are looking to win their second straight Super Bowl and third since 2017. The next game will take place in Dallas, after the Eagles won the last meeting between the two teams in Philadelphia on Thursday on opening night of the NFL season.
Eagles fans have earned a controversial reputation for their abrasive behavior over the years.
After the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory last February, footage captured by FreedomNewsTV allegedly showed a crowd looting a laundry truck and throwing towels into the air. Police were seen responding to a fire when a pile of dirty clothes caught fire.
In another clip, two people could be seen knocking down a light pole. Once he fell to the ground, a crowd rushed around him and began to crush him with their feet. Members of the crowd then picked up the pole and began carrying it through the city center.
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In January, Eagles fans came under the national spotlight after one of their own, Ryan Caldwellwas seen verbally attacking a Green Bay Packers fan in viral footage at the team’s wild-card playoff game.
Former Dallas Cowboys player DeMarcus Ware, who played a game in Philadelphia every year during his Dallas career from 2005 to 2013, told Pak Gazette Digital that he once had to witness Eagles fans throw projectiles at his mother, Brenda Ann Ware, during a game in his rookie year in 2005.
“My rookie season, when my mom was in the stands, I told her not to wear my jersey, and she was in the front row, and they were there in Philadelphia, they were putting batteries in snowballs and throwing them and one of them hit my mom,” Ware said.
Watching his mother get caught by a snow-covered battery nearly caused Ware to abandon his football duties and run into the stands to start a fight.
“I turned around at that point and didn’t care about football anymore. I wanted to go find the guy in the stands. But I didn’t,” Ware said.
In 2018, an Eagles fan was arrested during the NFC divisional playoff game against the Falcons for hitting a Philadelphia police officer’s horse.
According to a police report at the time, a man was expelled because “he was intoxicated and did not have a ticket.” After his ejection from Lincoln Stadium, the man walked up to a police officer on a horse and “began punching the horse in the face, neck and shoulder.”
After the Eagles won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots that same year, multiple violent riots broke out throughout the city. Looting and destruction were reported at several convenience stores and a local Macy’s department store. They overturned cars and knocked down traffic lights and streetlights.
One of the most famous examples of unruly behavior by Eagles fans took place back in 1968, when a man dressed as Santa Claus took the field. He was booed relentlessly by fans who were upset over a disappointing season and, like Ware’s mother, even hit him with snowballs.
In 1997, during a Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers, a mischievous Eagles fan fired a flare gun into stands full of other fans, endangering several lives.
After the flare was fired, multiple fistfights broke out around the stadium, as most of the violence was directed at 49ers fans by Eagles fans.
“There were a large number of fights and acts of intimidation, many of them directed at fans wearing 49ers jerseys,” the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote at the time.
After the game, Eagles owner Jeffrie Lurie was forced to condemn his own fans.
“While we feel we have made significant progress in recent years regarding fan conduct at Veterans Stadium, what we witnessed last Monday was certainly a step backwards,” Lurie told reporters at the time.
