IS PHILLY THE NEXT STOP?

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.