Sunday, August 19th, marks another Sunday since the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
Not much that has happened around the Philadelphia area has mattered since (save for a certain incident at Starbucks).
Despite all external worldly problems or personal issues, there is a decidedly more upbeat tone, across the country, Tampa included.
The Birds Won the Bowl.
At times that simple fact has felt like an esoteric concept, a dream that I fear at any moment we will all wake up from.
For a month or so afterward, the ridiculousness became an open question to friends and even sometimes strangers:
“Yo, I heard the Birds won the Bowl, is that true?”
“Yeah man, I heard something about that too”
We’ve now had some time to let it marinate.
Shake off the cobwebs from all the celebration, and take it all in.
Did the Birds really win the Bowl?
Damn Right.
Just because it felt like a dream, doesn’t mean it isn’t our new reality.
The Philadelphia Eagles are reigning Super Bowl Champions.
Or to quote Butterfly from Digable Planets in 1994, on the opening line from one of my favorite rap songs of all-time (“9th Wonder (Blackitolism”):
‘I’m slicker this year, I’m slicker this year.”
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Mike Hamson 