Hey, it's Pablo here, wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us at ESPN Daily and is our Christmas gift to you.

I want you to get some eggnog, curl up in front of your fireplace, and hear one of my favorite stories ever told on this podcast.

It involves ESPN's Jeremy Shapp and Santa Claus and snowballs at a Philadelphia Eagles game.

Our friend Mina Kimes steered this particular sleigh back in 2019, and I wanted to make it our annual holiday tradition to play it for you.

Enjoy.

There's Babe Ruth with the called shot in the 1932 World Series, right?

There's Joe Namath down in Miami, making the guarantee. And then there's Santa Claus

getting pelted by snowballs. These are some of the biggest legends in the history of sports

storytelling. And our objective was to really suss out exactly what happened. Not just to regurgitate the myths and the legends,

but to do some actual feet on the ground, knocking on the door, reporting.

It's one of the most infamous legends in sports history

that Philadelphia Eagles fans are so naughty they once booed Santa.

Anne pelted him with snowballs.

In one of ESPN's finer moments of investigative work,

Jeremy Schapp tracked down the mythical man who was on the receiving end of that icy attack

and got to the bottom of

this bah humbug story.

Jeremy, hi.

Hello, Mina. Happy holidays.

When do you first remember hearing that Eagles fans are so tough, so terrifying that they actually booed Santa Claus?

I think that's one of those things, Mina, that as soon as you have the ability to process

information, you know, like, what is that, like two or three years old and you're around

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