This past Monday, social media was going crazy over the fact that the MetLife stadium parking lot was a ghost town some four hours before their season opener where they getting set to watch Aaron Rodgers play for the first time.
One fan base would never let that happen and that the Philadelphia Eagles who are getting set to play on Thursday Night Football when they play the Minnesota Vikings.
Diehard Eagles fan Gregg Matza loves the team so much that he decided he was gonna start tailgating at 4:30 a.m. The actual game has an 8:15 p.m. kickoff.
Here was his explanation for it.
“Just to put this t-shirt on. The kelly green Reggie White t-shirt. I had, like, chills this morning driving,” he began. “I’m thinking about the game I’m thinking about how the defense is gonna play. Are we gonna run the ball? Is Jalen Hurts gonna play better than he did last week? Because he didn’t have a Jalen Hurts game. I mean, everybody knows that.
“So they gotta clean up their mistakes, and we got a lot of injuries tonight. But DeAndre Swift, I think is really gonna step up for the birds, and (a) six-point win (is) my prediction.”
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Neither the Eagles nor the Vikings opened 2023 as they would’ve liked, but one of them at least left Week 1 with a victory.
Minnesota fumbled away its home opener to Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers while Philadelphia nearly squandered but then preserved a road win over the Patriots.
Now, the NFC contenders will square off in a prime-time “Thursday Night Football” clash to kick off Week 2 — and hopefully restore some faith in their respective 2023 campaigns.
On paper, these are two teams in very different places as the Eagles are trying to return to the Super Bowl for the third time in seven years while Minnesota general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah tabbed a “competitive rebuild” for this year.
