America’s Team: Philadelphia Eagles deliver 35.9 MILLION viewers: An in-depth look at the city’s history and it why embodies the USA more than anyone else

The Philadelphia Eagles not only secured a gritty 22-10 victory over the Green Bay Packers to punch their ticket to the NFC Divisional Round, but they also dominated television screens across the country. The game, broadcast on FOX, became the most-watched telecast of the week on any network, underscoring just how much the NFL continues to captivate audiences.

America’s Team: THE Philadelphia Eagles

Fly, Eagles Fly 🎶

On Sunday, @NFLonFOX delivered the most-watched telecast of the week on any network as the @Eagles punched their ticket to the NFC Divisional Round. pic.twitter.com/o1ltkWXWr6

— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) January 14, 2025

It’s time to have a conversation…(again)

Honestly, I think there should be a serious dialogue about changing who America’s Team really is because one thing is for certain, it’s not the Dallas Cowboys.

That dumpster fire of an organization hasn’t been relevant in nearly three decades at this point, while the Philadelphia Eagles have been darlings of NFL football since the early 2000’s.

On top of that, I can’t figure out why NFL fans love to gloss over the fact that right here, where America was born, we have Lincoln the Eagle flying around The Linc ahead of every home game. Check this guy out. No games. No gimmicks. Just America.

Eagles Wild Card Game: Lincoln the Eagle. American Flag. National Anthem. Etc.

Lincoln the Eagle (Wild Card Version) is everything🤩🦅 pic.twitter.com/rDMPxPP8gf

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) January 12, 2025

If you really stop and think about it. Dallas, Texas didn’t even become a city until 1871. They were granted a town charter in 1856 and a city charter in 1871. 

That seems like an automatic disqualification no matter the context, right?

Compare that to Philadelphia, a location that Billy Penn founded in 1682 before issuing a city charter in 1701 and Dallas, Texas and anything that comes out of it shouldn’t even be considered in a general dialogue about America.

For the rats on social media who never opened a history book, I’ll continue. Philly was the capital of the United States from 1790-1800 and was the site of the First and Second Continental Congresses.

Other key things from the city include, but not limited to, the Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross, Liberty Bell. Benjamin Franklin when he wasn’t whoring around France.

Philadelphia “Firsts”

• First library in Philly (1731). 
• First hospital (1751)
• First Medical school (1765)
• First National capital (1774)
• First university (by some accounts) (1779)
• First central bank (1781)
• First stock exchange (1790)
• First zoo (1874)
• First business school (1881).
• First hot air balloon (1793) 

Philly even has “moon trees” that traveled to the moon with the Apollo 14 mission. You name it. We have it all, right here in the birthplace of America, including very good football team that racks in 35+ million viewers on Wild Card Weekend. 

What does Dallas have?

Well, they killed the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. That’s literally the only historic site in the entire city. Ridiculous lol.

Back to Philadelphia:

I could keep going but I think the point is made. There is literally zero reason that the Dallas Cowboys, or the city itself deserve the title as “America’s Team.” However you look at it, there’s one clear place that embodies America, and that is the city of Philadelphia.

Cheers. Fly Eagles Fly. Go Birds. Go America.

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