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...Philadelphia fans are, by necessity, a tough lot. As the home to the professional sports franchise with the most losses in history—the National League’s Philadelphia Phillies—Philadelphia has become accustomed to dealing with defeat. There has been a remarkable flow of teams who reached their final series only to fail spectacularly: the 1993 Phillies, the 1997 Philadelphia Flyers’ “Legion of Broom” swept by Detroit and the 2001 Sixers stand out as particularly glaring examples. In all of these instances, the city’s heart...
Anyone born in Philadelphia after March 1983 has never seen a victory parade. Philadelphia teams have gone over 20 years without a major professional sports championship, leaving an entire generation without a championship parade and all of the assorted memories. This is a streak that is unprecedented in its breadth: Never before has such a major city gone for so long without at least one of its sports franchises ending the season with a victory. Philadelphia hungers for a championship in a way that no other city has, and in a way no city...
...that question quite like McNabb, 28, a five-time Pro Bowler who has guided the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years. In 1999, upset that the Eagles chose him over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated...
...Quakers’ 104-69 win over the Crimson last season at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Penn did just that, taking a 55-24 lead into the intermission...
...HOFHEIMER Philadelphia...