April 17, 1999. Then NFL-commissioner Paul Tagliabue steps up to the podium to announce that with the 2nd pick in the draft, the Philadelphia Eagles select Syracuse quarterback Donovan McNabb.
Eagles fans loudly and mercilessly boo.
That singular moment — Eagles fans booing the player who would become the franchise’s best quarterback — has largely been used to cement the idea that Philadelphia fans are the worst in the league. They throw snowballs at Santa, they need a jail in their own stadium and they boo their own players.
What many sports reporters and television anchors probably don’t know is that the booing wasn’t some spontaneous moment of fans banding together to rip an Eagles prospect — it was an orchestrated event, put together prior to the draft by SportsRadio 94.