Woman Steals Leg at Eagles Game

     My fellow Philadelphia sports fans tend to be proudly crude. Legendary are stories of fans booing and hurling ice-chunks at Santa, fans so drunk and boorish that the bowels of old Veterans Stadium and now at the Linc, are home to make-shift court rooms presided over by Phladelphia Common Pleas Court judges whose high purpose is to dispatch to the hoosegow the very worst Brotherly Love has to offer.

A few seasons back we may have bottomed out. After my Iggles swamped the Teenie-Weenie ‘Giants’, 27-Zip, a play far more noxious than the sacking eight times of Giant QBs occurred in the parking lot as the game got underway.

Philly.com reports:  “THERE’S A GUY MISSING a prosthetic leg in Philadelphia. Sonny Forriest Jr., a city resident who uses a wheelchair and has been singing outside Phillies and Eagles games for years, got his prosthetic leg stolen by a woman yesterday outside Lincoln Financial Field. Reports this morning say the leg was found at the Olney Transportation Center about two hours after it was taken.”

Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood, about seven miles north of the stadium, is a subway end-run away. My bet’s the leg-thief realized, during her underground getaway, that the thing wasn’t an extra-large pulled-pork Hoagie (what New York fans mistakenly call Heros) and, thoughtfully, left it underground for another singing amputee to find.

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