Thread for Iggles fans, everybody else stay out of my mentions:
I interviewed @GovEdRendell for a separate story and asked him about Wing Bowl. He copped to some responsibility for it.
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"I unfortunately bear some of the blame for creating Wing Bowl. When I was mayor they had Wing Bowl in small venues," he said, noting the hotel lobby and then the Electric Factory...
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"Then the city did a deal where we helped construct the new CoreStates Center...Part of the deal was we could put 10 free events into the Spectrum.
@AngeloCataldi called me and I gave the okay to have one of those events be Wing Bowl..."Show this thread -
"All of a sudden Wing Bowl had 18,000 people. So God bless America," he said. "It's quite a spectacle: You have to care about projectile vomiting." I asked if he'd be going. "I promised I would, yeah."
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