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Eagles pizza offer triggers a Christmas Day Twitter smackdown

Related Topics: Pizza, Twitter, Jake Tapper, Christmas

Ah, Christmas in Philly.

All is calm.

All is bright.

And on Twitter, a pizza debate breaks out.

CNN’s Jake Tapper – a Philly native and still an enthusiastic supporter of the local sports teams – started it by offering his two cents on a pizza offer affiliated with the Eagles, who play the Oakland Raiders tonight. A victory would guarantee home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

Tapper, who grew up in Queen Village in Philadelphia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, took issue with such an endorsement in a “city steeped in delicious and authentic pizza.