February 04, 2005

Food Fight

A culinary stand-off between Penn and Amherst in parallel with Sunday's big game.

Posted by Alan Allport at February 4, 2005 07:08 AM
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For those of you that do not live in Philly, be thankful. The build up to the Super Bowl is unbearable. Local News is worse than normal. In a vain attept at getting an extended weather forcast, I had to sit through an elementary school class singing 'Fly, Eagles Fly", then the added bonus of West Philadelphia Catholic High singing the fight song in latin, a riviting piece on a South Jersey man's basement devoted to his Philadelphia Eagles' bobble head doll collection and endless footage of drunken Philly fans arriving in Jacksonville.

There is a neighborhood bar a block from our apartment. The most entertaining part of Super Bowl Sunday is going to be watching that bar towards the end of the game. I figure that it will be safe to stand a half a block away and wait for the riot to start. Win or lose, Philly will riot. The only difference will be the temperment - happy drunks or pissed off drunks.

If the Eagles win, watch for more riots Tuesday. Philly will have drunken Fat Tuesday "celebrations" and the victory parade on the same day.

Posted by: Barbara A. MacDonald at February 4, 2005 07:40 AM

Good heavens, doesn't the Daily Penn have copy editors?

BTW post-game rioting in Amherst is also serious business. The Mets-Sox World Series in 1986 led to fighting between Amherst College and UMass students. It started with rock-spiked snowballs and got worse from there.

I do hope the Patriots win. My parents like Amherst in part because it's not Pennsylvania. If scrapple comes to the UMass dining hall they may have to make a run for Vermont.

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at February 4, 2005 09:11 AM

This sort of thing happens sometimes in Oakland. The strange thing is, last time there was rioting it wasn't even a big game, as I recall (and they lost). It got pretty scary, though. Riot gear, rubber bullets, broken glass. Broke out in one of the worst parts of town, of course.

Posted by: Alan Hogue at February 4, 2005 09:29 PM

23,000 people filled the Wacovia center by six A.M. Friday morning for the 13th Annual Wing Bowl.

According to the New York Times:

"In time-honored Philadelphia style, a fight in the stands halted for the national anthem on Friday, then began again."

Posted by: Barbara MacDonald at February 5, 2005 07:35 PM