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Philadelphia EaglesFor an upcoming game against the Dallas Cowboys, an elementary school in New Jersey is allowing its students to play with Cowboys players in the hallway.
FOX 29 in Philadelphia aired footage of students at Cooper Point Family School. Camden, New Jerseyusing punching bags with pictures of Cowboys players attached. The footage went viral on social networks.
This stunt caused mixed reactions.
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The Dallas Cowboys enter the game with a 4-5-1 record. The Eagles lead the NFC with an 8-2 record and are looking to win their second straight Super Bowl and third since 2017. Sunday's game will be played in Dallas after the Eagles won the previous meeting between the two teams in Philadelphia on the first Thursday night of the NFL season.
Over the years, Eagles fans have gained a controversial reputation for their abrasive behavior.
After the Eagles' Super Bowl victory in February, footage captured by FreedomNewsTV allegedly showed a mob looting a laundry truck and throwing towels in the air. Police responded to a fire where a pile of laundry caught fire.
In another video, two men knocked over a lamppost. As soon as the pillar fell to the ground, the crowd rushed around it and began kicking it. Members of the crowd then picked up a pole and began carrying it through the city center.
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In January, Eagles fans found themselves under the national microscope after one of their own fans. Ryan Caldwellinsulted a Green Bay Packers fan in a viral video of the team's playoff game.
Former Dallas Cowboys player DeMarcus Ware, who played every year in Philadelphia during his Dallas career from 2005 to 2013. told Fox News Digital He once witnessed Eagles fans throwing projectiles at his mother, Brenda Ann Ware, during a game when he was a rookie in 2005.
“My rookie season, when my mom was in the stands, I told her not to wear my jersey, and she was in the front row. And we were there in Philadelphia, they were putting batteries in snowballs and throwing them, and one of them hit my mom,” Ware said.
After seeing his mother caught in a snow-covered radiator, Ware all but abandoned his football duties and ran into the stands to start a fight.
“At that moment I turned around and realized that I didn’t care about football anymore. I wanted to grab the guy who was in the stands. But I didn’t,” Ware said.
In 2018, an Eagles fan was arrested during an NFC divisional playoff game against the Falcons for kicking a Philadelphia police horse.
According to a police report at the time, the man was kicked out because “he was intoxicated and did not have a ticket on him.” After being ejected from Lincoln Financial Field, the man approached the officer on the horse and “began punching the horse in the face, neck and shoulders.”
After the Eagles won the Super Bowl that year against the New England Patriots, numerous violent riots broke out in the city. Looting and destruction were reported at several convenience stores and Macy's department store. Cars overturned, traffic lights and lampposts were demolished.
One of the most legendary examples of unruly Eagles fan behavior occurred in 1968, when a man dressed as Santa Claus walked onto the field. He was booed mercilessly by fans upset about his poor season and pelted with snowballs like Ware's mother.
In 1997, during a Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers, a mischievous Eagles fan fired a flare gun into the stands full of other fans, putting several lives in danger.
After the flare was dropped, numerous fist fights broke out around the stadium, with much of the violence directed by 49ers fans from Eagles fans.
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“There were a large number of fights and acts of intimidation, many of which were directed at fans wearing 49ers jerseys,” the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote at the time.
After the game, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie condemned his fans.
“While we feel we have made significant strides in recent years regarding fan behavior at Veterans Stadium, what we witnessed last Monday was undoubtedly a step backwards,” Lurie told reporters at the time.
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