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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"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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Your thread got me googling, after which I found this horrifying ad placementpic.twitter.com/PLrXKER6Zu
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I was at one where a guy projectile vomited while he was featured on the jumbotron. They played the slo-mo replay over and over. Crowd cheered louder each time.
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Having been to maybe 4 Wing Bowls, it’s the most ridiculous thing one could ever see.
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