After all, these are the people who booed and threw snowballs at Santa Claus, who hurled batteries at a baseball player the first time he played a game in Philly after spurning the local team that drafted him, whose history of, shall we say, “uncouth” behavior necessitated a jail and courtroom in the old football stadium.
But please — hold off on the side-eye, cease taking note of my apparently missing ankle monitor, and hear me out before you have security escort me from the premises.
I’m just a man who, as a kid, fell in love with Randall Cunningham’s sidestep-and-leave-you-grasping-at-air elusiveness, and with the “Minister of Defense” Reggie White’s bullrush/“hump” move that left many an opposing quarterback in a politely murdered heap.