When Eagles Fans Booed Santa: The Notorious True Story (ENCORE)

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist, to help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from this past year. And on today's show, we're revisiting another great episode, originally published on December 25, 2019: It’s one of the most infamous fan stories in sports history: when Eagles fans booed Santa at halftime of a game played at Franklin Field. But who was the Santa in question - and why was he booed and pelted with snowballs? It’s ESPN Daily’s Christmas tradition to bring you this episode, so hear an encore with Jeremy Schaap and Mina Kimes as they reflect on the enduring legacy of the Philadelphia Santa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So happy Friday, happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas Eve, Eve.
0:08.1	Um, it's Pablo by the way, hello.
0:11.6	If you watched that Dolphin's Bills game last weekend, you undoubtedly saw all of those
0:16.9	members of Bill's Mafia chucking snowballs from the crowd down onto the field.
0:22.8	It was a whole thing.
0:24.8	They were almost penalized for it by the referees.
0:28.2	But it is worth noting that Bill's Mafia is not the first fanbase to weaponize snow
0:35.6	during a football game, and they are certainly not the most infamous.
0:40.1	Because that title belongs to a fanbase that may have been watching a football game at
0:46.2	Franklin Field back in 1968.
0:50.2	And that game is the basis of our annual ESPN Daily Christmas tradition.
0:56.0	A tradition that involves the episode you're about to hear from back in 2019 and involves
1:01.8	Meet of Kimes who is in the host of the show, Jeremy Shap, our friend, and Santa Claus
1:07.3	himself.
1:08.8	So it is Friday December 23rd.
1:12.1	And yeah, this is ESPN Daily.
1:25.2	There's Babe Ruth with the called shot in the 1932 World Series, right?
1:29.6	There's Joe Nameth, that in Miami, making the guarantee.
1:34.8	And then there's Santa Claus getting pelted by snowballs.
1:37.6	These are some of the biggest legends in the history of sports storytelling.
1:43.2	And our objective was to really suss out exactly what happened.
1:48.7	Not just to regurgitate the myths and the legends, but to do some actual feed on the
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