48. Boo…Who?
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🗓️ 8 November 2011
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A Med Rendell former governor of Pennsylvania, former mayor of Philadelphia, a former |
| 0:11.3 | a lot of things. |
| 0:13.1 | And you know what we're here to talk about today, right? |
| 0:15.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:16.3 | Alright, now we've all heard, or some of us have heard, at least at Philadelphia, is actually |
| 0:20.4 | the capital of sports booing at least. |
| 0:22.6 | The Philadelphia fans are incredibly passionate. |
| 0:25.6 | They're the best and most supportive fans in the world. |
| 0:28.4 | But they will boo lack of effort. |
| 0:30.1 | They will boo opposing players. |
| 0:31.6 | They will boo bad calls by the umpires. |
| 0:34.4 | And yes, they'll boo Santa Claus. |
| 0:40.8 | The Santa Claus thing actually did happen back in 1968 at a Philadelphia Eagles football |
| 0:45.8 | game. |
| 0:46.8 | It helped cement the belief that Philadelphia is the town that booes the most. |
| 0:52.6 | The best. |
| 0:54.2 | The worst. |
| 0:55.2 | It was the last game of the year. |
| 0:59.1 | It was right before Christmas. |
| 1:00.1 | It was in Franklin Field, our old stadium. |
| 1:01.1 | The Eagles had won two games that year so the fans were just pissed off in general. |
| 1:05.4 | And then the regular Santa Claus they were going to use for this halftime show got |
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