MINNEAPOLIS — Fifty years after that scruffy Santa Claus the Eagles fans threw those snowballs at, 50 years after he walked up to the perpetrators at old Franklin Field and said, “Ya know what? Just for that; you’re getting nothing for Christmas!” a gift finally arrived in Philadelphia that’s better than all the gifts from all the Christmases in all the years since.
The Eagles won the Super Bowl.
It came at 10:17 p.m. on Feb 4, 2018, 50 years after Santa, 57 seasons after the Eagles’ last NFL championship, and it came wrapped in one of the craziest, wildest games in the long history of the NFL’s annual showcase.