Philly Fans Take to Streets in Exuberant Super Bowl Victory Party
Eagles fans went wild on Sunday night as they took to the streets of Philadelphia to celebrate their team routing the Kansas City Chiefs, 40-22, in the Super Bowl.
As fans swarmed the city’s main thoroughfares and countless other mini-celebrations broke up, strangers cheered, hugged, set off fireworks, drank champagne, and crowd-surfed, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Despite the mayor’s pre-game pleas not to climb street poles, fans downed two light poles near City Hall and took over a bus shelter, the paper reported. At one point the crowd tried to flip a police car, climbed onto an ambulance, and took over a garbage truck.
Fans have now gained control of poles and bus shelters near City Hall. The top of a bus shelter was preemptively removed but that didn’t stop people from finding a way to sit on top of it. pic.twitter.com/c0qNNxt0tI
— Stephanie Farr (@FarFarrAway) February 10, 2025
Others ransacked a moving truck that was inexplicably full of white towels, which the crowd “threw in the air like confetti”—and then lit on fire, according to an Inquirer journalist. Then they lit a dumpster on fire. Police used fire extinguishers to put out the fire and aggressively pushed back the crowd.
The moving truck overtaken by the crowd appears to have been filled with white towels, which the crowd is now throwing around like confetti. pic.twitter.com/N8MLHzqVQ1
— Stephanie Farr (@FarFarrAway) February 10, 2025
Active fire at 12th and Market fueled by towels stolen from moving van that were used as confetti before being used to start a fire pic.twitter.com/R19ofNhonp
— Stephanie Farr (@FarFarrAway) February 10, 2025
In response, police on foot, motorcycle, and horseback lined up in front of City Hall, which was protected by metal barriers. Fans shook the barriers and taunted them, but the police remained stoic. Someone tried to erect a full-on professional DJ set but was quickly shut down.
Philly Eagles mayhem thread: Someone tried to set up a real hot-sh** dj system on the Broad Street median and cops shut that down before it got started. pic.twitter.com/YhiHTO5kz6
— Stephanie Farr (@FarFarrAway) February 10, 2025
It was relatively tame by Philly standards; despite the reveling, no injuries were reported. Two weeks ago, an 18-year-old Temple University student tragically died after falling from a street pole while celebrating the Eagles’ NFC championship.
After the accident, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker asked fans not to climb street poles, but the city stopped short of greasing them. At about 1:35 a.m., police announced it was time to go home and dispersed the crowds gathered downtown.
