The remnants of the greatest day ever remain in the streets of Philadelphia, or, if you were there, in your clothes, up your nostrils, under your fingernails, like grains of sand after a day at the beach. They will never go away. And who would want them to, anyway? The Eagles’ Parade Of Champions from Thursday resonates like no day in the history of the City of Philadelphia.
“This is remarkable, an event unlike anything I’ve ever experienced,” Eagles Chairman/CEO Jeffrey Lurie said from double-decker bus No. 1 on Thursday, early in the afternoon as the team made its way north on Broad Street from Pattison Avenue, a 19-double-decker-bus caravan slowing making its way past the hundreds of thousands (millions, when all is said and tallied?