Philly cleans up after street celebrations for Eagles’ Super Bowl win
Fans were in an exhausted bliss Monday as streets crews cleaned up the remnants of the celebrations.
Monday was a bad day to be the driver of street-cleaning truck in Philadelphia. But for everyone else, it looked almost like just another day on Broad Street.
As people commuted to work and visiting fans checked out of their hotels, there were still stray bits of green confetti, barricades along the sidewalk, and the occasional carcass of a shotgunned beer can falling from the ground off construction scaffolding.
Fans who were revisiting Broad after having crowded it as fans took to the streets Sunday night to celebrate the Eagles’ Super Bowl rout of the Kansas City Chiefs were still in bliss, though an exhausted one.
”It’s a feeling like no other,” said Kayla George from Bucks County about the Super Bowl win.
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”It was a madhouse. People were out of their minds,” said Jonathan Harvey about the scene on Broad Street Sunday night.
He grew up in West Philly but has since moved to Virginia, and said it was a strange feeling to watch the Eagles win a game so decisively, and even get a chance to relax.
”That’s not been my experience as an Eagles fan,” he said
The last Eagles fans were still celebrating the franchise’s second Super Bowl victory when Department of Streets cleaning crews arrived to South Broad Street around 1:30 a.m. Monday. City workers were still cleaning the broken bottles, confetti, and firework’s casings on 9 a.m. Monday, as passersby exchanged “Go Birds!” on the quiet but joyous morning.
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As Kori Keaton walked down Broad this morning, he gave a hearty “Go Birds” to other fans walking past. He held a wide smile on his face, even though the Oklahoma City man doesn’t even consider himself much of an Eagles fan, usually rooting for the Minnesota Vikings. But his dad was an Eagles fan, and Keaton came to watch the game with his family in Southwest Philly. It looked like the spirit of the team was winning him over.
”It’s a beautiful city,” he said.