By Stephen Pierce
Philadelphia the City of Brother Love, Cheesesteaks, Rocky,
Liberty Bell, Great Universities, Rabid Fans.
Throughout the years Philadelphia has been known as an
excellent sports city that no free agent and some cases draft picks such as
Charles Barkley ever wanted to play for. Throughout the United States Philly is
known as a very angry city with aggressive and angry individuals. To that I
would say they are not wrong but we a more misunderstood than anything. Yeah we
might get mad and call you out of your name for cutting us off in traffic, but we
do that because we know you can do better. Yeah we do insult the hell out of
one another and sometimes it comes off as though we hate each other, but that
is how we show love. Before I get to far off topic, this is what makes Philadelphia
the greatest sports city in the world. We are passionate.
If you haven’t been paying attention to Philly sports for
the past 3-4 years let me just give you a quick summary. Lets first start with
the Eagles, we are the former Super Bowl Champions. The last time they won a
championship was back in the 60s… THE F’n 60s. We ate horse s**t after the win and
damn near burned down our own city, enough said.
The Sixers have 2 corner pieces in Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons
who have the capabilities of being the next Shaq and Penny, Shaq and Kobe(without
the animosity), Magic and Kareem, Stockton and Malone and so on. They also have
Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris who are also All-Star caliber talents. They still
have a lot of youth on this team, with the right mixture of veterans. The
Sixers are set up to make multiple championship pushes in the next couple of
years and it seems like every game Embiid or Simmons plays they are breaking
another record.
Last but no least the Phillies who have acquired one of the
most polarizing players in the game today in Bryce Harper. They also signed
some other important veterans to try to make a title push. The last couple years the Phillies have been one of least entertaining teams in baseball. At a point they couldn't pay for people to come to the games. After they signed Bryce they sold close to 180,000 in just a couple of days.
With all these moves Philly is the hot spot in
sports right now. And Meek (Mill) dropped a fire album, Philly has no choice
but to be winning right now. Philadelphia is emerging as a place that free
agents and draft picks or whoever are choosing because of the craziness that we
provide. We will cus you out with the quickness but if we see that you go all out
and play with that dog mentality we will forever love you and root for you. Look
at Bryce Harper for example, he has the number 1 selling jersey of all-time in
any sport for any player in the first 24 hours of him signing. If that isn’t fan
love than I don’t know what is. 
