Do they suffer enough? – Fremont Tribune

February 3-Ben Asztalos became a fan of the Eagles in 1988 at the age of 10, much in the 24-year-old Super Bowl land on the team. Growing up, he watched the divisional rivals of his team – Giants, Washington and, the worst of all, the cowboys – give rise to the Lombardi Trophy many times.

His birds couldn’t even reach the big game.

“Being a fan of the Eagles was like hitting the face, every Sunday,” says the 47 -year -old Astalos.

He now raises four fans of the Eagles – but being a child dedicated to the Eagles is not what it was before. Astalos’ children are already up to date to see more victories in the playoffs in their young life than throughout their childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.

With regard to who is doing the drilling now: “It is as if, I will hit these children,” says Hank Astalos, saying that he calls other teams “children.”

For the Philadelphians, born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, sports championships -not just Super Bowls -were the most thing that other cities had to enjoy. In contrast, being a fan of Phili meant registering for heartache. For these fans, this is stunning and perhaps even a little anxious to gather a new generation that roots for a constantly winning team.

“They take all this victory for granted,” Astalos said.

Astalos’s 11-year-old daughter, Rosie, says her father does not understand how much fun it is to eradicate the eagles today.

“So you think it’s more good now than when I was a kid?” Astalos asked.

“Well, we saw a lot of losses when I was a child,” Ashtalos said. “You see a lot of wins.”

There have not always been so many victories: the NFL Super Bowl era began in 1966, and the Eagles came to the game for the first time in 1981. Their next appearance will be until 2005, which led to a second loss.

Then came the magical mileage, which brought Lombards on Broad Street in 2018, against all chances. Carson Ventz tore his ACL after playing a MVP-Caliber season, and Nick Falls took over … Everyone knows the story.

“I almost feel like you have to sit through some misery before you feel the joy,” says the 41 -year -old Capadia shale, hosting the special podcast of Ringer Filly.

Hungry dogs run faster, after all.

But the fans of the Eagles are no longer so hungry – and the poultry is no longer meant to register for despair. This annoys some fans of veterans for the younger generation.

“Everyone is jumping on the tape,” says the 72 -year -old James Adams, wearing the bombing jacket championships that remember the Eagles Championship, which returned to the 40s. “I’m a real fan. I know the story.”

For the younger fans, the result of the upcoming Super Bowl against Kansas City the bosses feels like a predicted conclusion – with all his respect for Patrick Mahomes.

A woman described her nephew, asking, “What day are we going to Frankford and Kotman?”, “They seem to go down to the answer to the northeast of Broad Street, were a routine event in the typical year of Fili.

Capadia, which has been following the eagles and NFL for years, has warned fans not to accept the latest performance of the Super Bowl of the team for granted.

“You really could go for the rest of your life without seeing this to repeat,” Capadia said.

Other parents who have grown up as long -suffering fans of the eagles claim that the years of their defeat have taught them some of the key adulthood lessons: to lose kindly, to be sustainable, to enjoy even small triumphs. (Not the qualities that usually come to mind when we describe the fans of the “eagles”, we admit.)

When the Eagles lost to the superiors in 2023, the 40 -year -old Heather Scott discovered that her children were absolutely devastated, sobbing on the floor.

Scott, a lifelong fan who has grown up, watching games with her father and grandfather in southern fillets, so close to the stadium that he could hear a touch from the touchdown before reaching his TV, unleashed the Philly -specific version of ” When I was a kid, I went to school five miles through the snow. “

“I remember told them,” I grew up with a loser team. We were lucky, just to get there, “Scott said.” But for them it’s just: “We want everything.”

The fan of the fan who shouted maybe next year, Scott said. But her children come in every season, confident that the Eagles will reach the Super Bowl and are likely to win.

Part of this optimism seems to penetrate the older generation.

“This is probably rare this year that I go into a superbrow with confidence, with respect to be alarmed,” says Vern Moore, 65, who has so far seen all four Eagles Super Bowl appearances.

Maybe the children who are fans of the eagles today just have higher standards. 43-year-old Mike Hoch, who grew up, Plamen’s northeast eagle fan, said his 10-year-old son’s home is sometimes far more critical to Jalen pain than he was. After watching some “pretty bad discounts” over the years, Hoch evaluates injuries.

“I look at him to be disappointed with the things I am like:” Oh, it can be much worse, my friend, “said Hoch. Father and son were sitting in front of a basement wall showing nearly 600 signed Eagles helmets, part of a family Collection.

Still, a home loved the season. It was certainly more willing to cheer on a winning team, he said.

And what about his father? Does the Eagles want to stop being so good as his son can experience the true purity of pain in the eagles?

“Oh, no,” Hoch said. “Not at all.”