Philadelphia Rocky statue dressed in Redskins gear ahead of NFC title game between Eagles and Commanders

A rivalry has been renewed. 

Philadelphia volition big the NFC title crippled betwixt the Eagles and the visiting Washington Commanders Sunday. 

Ahead of the game, the celebrated Rocky statue successful downtown Philadelphia was dressed successful cogwheel representing the Commanders' erstwhile identity, the Redskins. 

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The culprit is unknown. 

Dressing the statue successful opposing teams' cogwheel has go a contented successful caller years up of large Eagles playoff games. Each clip its happened, the Eagles person travel distant with wins. 

In 2022, the statue was dressed successful New York Giants cogwheel up of their matchup against the Eagles successful the divisional round. The Eagles won that crippled 38-7. The pursuing week, the statue was dressed successful San Francisco 49ers cogwheel earlier Niners arrived successful Philadelphia for the NFC title game. The Eagles won that game, 31-7. 

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When the Eagles won their archetypal Super Bowl successful the 2017 season, the statue was besides dressed successful opposing teams' gear. 

Ahead of that season's NFC title crippled betwixt the Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings, the statue was draped successful a Vikings jersey, and the Eagles won 38-7. Before the Super Bowl, idiosyncratic placed a New England Patriots jersey connected the statue, and the Eagles bushed the Patriots 41-33 to assertion their archetypal Super Bowl title. 

The vandalism became truthful predominant that Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce pleaded with his ain instrumentality basal not to bash formal the statue successful immoderate Chiefs cogwheel up of the 2023 Super Bowl. The Chiefs won that crippled 38-35.

"Chiefs, bash not interaction the f---ing Rocky memorial!" Kelce said during a February 2023 occurrence of his podcast, "New Heights."  

"Do not bash that and decidedly don't enactment an No. 87 connected it!"

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Former Eagles halfway Jason Kelce, who played against Travis and the Chiefs successful that game, theorized the culprit was an Eagles fan. 

"I'm gonna beryllium honest. I deliberation idiosyncratic from Philadelphia is doing this now," Jason Kelce said. 

"I don't deliberation this is an opposing squad happening astatine this point. There's nary mode opposing teams proceed to bash this. I'm convinced determination is simply a Philadelphia instrumentality who is putting these shirts connected the Rocky statue conscionable to get everyone fired up, and it's moving tremendously. 

"So, support doing it. I warrant it. There's nary way. Because it's happened each azygous game. The Giants did it. The 49ers did it. There volition astir apt beryllium a Chiefs jersey connected it this week."

Now, Washington is up, and volition look to interruption the trend. 

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip the rivals person met successful a league title crippled and marks a precocious constituent for a rivalry that has been dormant successful caller decades owed to Washington's inability to triumph successful the playoffs since the 1990s. 

The 2024 play was the archetypal since 2005 that Washington won a playoff game, and the archetypal since 1991 that the franchise reached the league championship. 

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