Will Matt Ryan's Super Bowl Victory On Sunday Count As A Win For Philly?
You think I’m proud of that headline? You think I want to take the Atlanta Falcons’ success as our own? Frick no. But I’m left with no options and if we are allowed to celebrate a Villanova National Championship as a city and allowed to celebrate Rocky knocking out Ivan Drago as a city, then we should sure as shit be allowed to celebrate Philly’s own Matt Ryan dominating this New England Patriots this upcoming Sunday as a city.
Now before we get going here, I just have a few people we need to address. Specifically Cowboys fans, Giants fans and Patriots fans. All of you jack wagons can fuck off for the rest of this blog because your organization’s copious amounts of success disgust me. Not that many Cowboys fans here were old enough to truly remember their last Super Bowl victory but they love to bring up all those rings anyway. But this blog isn’t for your eyes so do us all a favor and hit that back button on your browser.
For the Eagles fans left here in the building, we need this victory. We need Matty Ice to come through and put the city on his back. Think about the journey this kid took. After graduating from Penn Charter, he left this great city in 2003 on a journey to Boston College. But that year hardly counts because he took a redshirt year. So we fast forward to 2004. And in his first actual year at BC, the Eagles met up with the Pats in the Super Bowl. Philly kid living in Boston, he had dreams of being able to go to class the next day telling everybody to suck his hog and kiss the ring. But that never happened. Because as fate would have it, Donovan McNabb ends up puking on the field and the Patriots Dynasty crushed the dreams of every single Eagles fan there ever was. Especially Matt Ryan. Brutally devastating. And it was at that very moment that a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Matt Ryan made the vow to himself that some way, some how, at some point in his life, he will exact revenge on Belichick, Brady & Co. Not just for himself, but for Eagles fans all across the world. And that moment comes this Sunday in Houston.
Tom Brady is Ivan Drago. Donovan McNabb is Apollo Creed (not a racist thing to say, it just works for this metaphor). We now rely on Matt Ryan to be our Rocky. Let’s get it.