It’s Dallas Week.
“Go Birds” is the greeting an Eagles fan might use when seeing someone walking down the street wearing a throwback kelly green hat. “Dallas Sucks” is something more visceral. “Go Birds” is an uplifting motto perfect for a Saturday morning run to Wawa. “Dallas Sucks” is the collective id for Eagles fans. It’s a “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me” give and take.
I was thinking earlier in the week about the 2014 Eagles. That’s a season that haunts me. I was 20 and had grown up a crazed Philly sports fan, but I think that was the year my brain snapped in half because of the Birds and I’ve been sort of a different person since in a lot of regards.