Eagles news: Fans greet Super Bowl champs at airport; parade set for Friday; Trump doesn't congratulate Birds

Dozens of people broke into an E-A-G-L-E-S chant as airplane stairs for disembarkment were set up ahead of the Super Bowl champions’ arrival.

Kevin and Lauren Scanlan picked up two of their children and nephew from school and rushed to the airport from Ridley Township in Delaware County.

“It's just so cool to see it from their eyes,” said Lauren, as the children, clad in Eagles gear, were just as enthusiastic about the win as the adults.

We know, we know. Super Bowl LIX isn’t even 24 hours old, but that won’t stop some fans from looking ahead to next year and wondering which teams are favored to win the 2026 Super Bowl.

While you can often find great value during the offseason — for example, the Eagles opened around +1700 last offseason, meaning a $100 bet won $1700 — there are still so many unknowns, like the draft, free agency, an entire offseason of trades, injuries, and who knows what.

But for those who are curious, we figured it was worth noting that the day after the Eagles won Super Bowl LIX, they are favored to repeat and win Super Bowl LX at both FanDuel and Draft Kings.

At the 8300 block of Enterprise Ave., dozens of Eagles fans hoped to get a glimpse of their Super Bowl LIX champions when they arrive from New Orleans.

The afternoon had the energy of a mini-block party with multiple speakers blasting crowd favorites, like Meek Mill's “Dreams and Nightmares” and Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us.” The crowd included people of all ages draped in their best gear. Michelle Thomas, 64, wore furry Kelly green boots, a Saquon Barkley jersey, and a black jacket with a bejeweled Eagle on the back.

She distilled the Sunday night win with a few words: “It meant everything.”

New Heights is ostensibly a Chiefs and Eagles show, thanks to Travis and Jason Kelce’s careers with each team. But after the Birds won Super Bowl LIX over the Chiefs, some 92%ers were not pleased with the podcast’s social media accounts posting to celebrate the win.

The original post read “Congrats to all our Birds fan 92%ers and Jason's Eagles teammates on an incredible season,” and the accompanying graphic shared a quote from Jason, who said that "There's a lot of people in the Philadelphia organization that feel like family to me.”

Chiefs fans, many of them Swifties, lashed out at the account for posting about the opponent when Travis was the only brother to play in the actual game. Some also criticized Jason for stating publicly that he would be supporting both Travis and his former Eagles teammates in the game.

Kelly and midnight green jerseys dotted either side of the aisles formed at Frontier Land in Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

In Orlando, Fla., Monday afternoon, Jalen Hurts grinned alongside Mickey Mouse for the traditional Disney Super Bowl parade. Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Chip, and Dale stood on the corners of the float.

"I'm going to Disney World!" That's what Hurts and dozens of other Most Valuable Players before him have said since 1987. It's part of a time-honored tradition to honor the winning Super Bowl team at one of the Disney parks.

For Chanel Mitchell victory “was long overdue.” And so was her need to get new Eagles merch.

Having watched the game at Rivers Casino, Mitchell couldn’t believe her eyes as the Eagles continued to score one point after another.

“The nerves in the beginning. Then it was going good, but I was still a little apprehensive. The victory was very emotional,” she said, reliving the game.

Nick Sirianni is in a class of his own. The Eagles coach became the first coach in the Super Bowl era (since 1966) to make four consecutive playoff appearances with two Super Bowl berths and a championship in their first four career seasons.

It was a history-making night for the triumvirate leading the Eagles.

Is Howie Roseman headed to the Hall of Fame? The architect of the Eagles’ roster became the fifth general manager in history to win Super Bowls with multiple quarterbacks. His company is filled with gold jackets: Bobby Beathard, Al Davis, Ozzie Newsome, and George Young.

Kristie Dugan, 50, might already own multiple pieces of Eagles appeal, including the crew neck she sported Monday morning, but she still lined up for NFL victory merch.

“It wasn’t bad, the line moves very fast, took about 10 minutes to get in,” Dugan said. "It’s worth it just to be part of something bigger than we are.”

As the Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls president, getting a victory souvenir felt personal.

Looks like you can make those parade plans, Philadelphia School District families and staff.

Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. as of Monday afternoon has made no announcement about plans to cancel school Friday as the Eagles celebrate their Super Bowl triumph with a parade, but multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of the district’s plan said it’s a lock, and a district spokesperson suggested it was likely.

Asked if the district would close for the parade, Christina Clark, the spokesperson, said the discussions were happening Monday. Clark made no promises, but said, “historically when there is a parade in the city, we have historically closed.”

An infinite line of fans extends from the Eagles Pro Shop to the parking lot. Not due to costumer service slowdowns, but because the stream of fans has not stop pouring in.

Kentucky natives Scott Reed and his 14-year-old daughter, Sloan, flew into Philly to support their adopted team, and ended up celebrating on Broad street until 1 a.m. That did not stop them from waking up early Monday to make it to the the Eagles shop before heading to the airport.

“It was just magical to see the team dominate the entire 60 minutes, and then celebrate on Broad Street where people in general have such a good time,” Reed said strolling his traveling bag, while carrying his merch bad on the other hand.

Inside Reading Terminal Market, a few Eagles fans already were wearing their Super Bowl LIX champions hats, and the celebrations continued over greasy plates of food.

Teron Manuel was not just confident that the Eagles would get their revenge against the Chiefs, but he knew Philly would dominate, too. He has the betting receipts to prove it, putting money on the team to win by at least 13 points.

“I knew we was gonna blow them out,” Manuel, from Delco, said. He’s turning 50 this year and didn’t have it in him to hit Broad Street last night.

There were 10 arrests and 29 summons for disorderly conduct issued by Philadelphia Police during the raucous celebration of the Eagles’ Super Bowl win Sunday night, police said.

Six people were arrested for six assaults on police officers, said department spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp. There were four other arrests: one for reckless endangerment, two for aggravated assault, and one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct, he said.

There were also eight reports of vandalism, said Gripp.

Among the giddy crowd inside the team store at the Linc Monday morning was Kyle Dexter, 34, of Cherry Hill, agonizing over a decision: Lane Johnson's jersey or C.J. Gardner-Johnson? He actually had wanted Brandon Graham's "because he might have played his last game," Dexter said. But other shoppers beat him to it.

His pick?

"Lane Johnson because he is going to be a Hall of Famer."

It’s a bad day to be the driver of street cleaner 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 of a construction scaffolding.

Fans who were revisiting Broad after crowding it last night 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.

The last time Jalen Hurts won a championship, he was famously benched in the second half for Tua Tagovailoa, who led an Alabama comeback bid to win the 2017 CFP.

On Sunday in the Superdome, Hurts’ football journey hit its latest peak with a Lombardi Trophy, after handily outperforming two-time NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes and setting a record for the most rushing yards by a quarterback in the Super Bowl.

“This whole entire journey of mine has been truly unprecedented,” Hurts said Monday. “Everything that I endured, it’s just been unprecedented. Even as a child growing up, I didn’t dream of playing on the big stage. I just loved college football. I loved everything about college football, and I loved the game in the NCAA, and I just gravitated towards that. I didn’t dream of these moments. It was more so the work and the determination to be the best that I can be.

When Jalen Hurts found A.J. Brown for a touchdown, extending the Eagles’ lead over the Kansas City Chiefs, the mother of plane crash victim Andre “Tre” Howard III took to Facebook on Sunday night and wrote: A.J. Brown kept WORD!!!!

Prior to the game, Brown had promised to bring home a win for the 10-year-old who suffered a severe head injury Jan. 31 when a piece of debris from the downed plane in Northeast Philadelphia smashed through his father’s car and struck Andre in the head.

On Sunday night, the boy’s family watched the Super Bowl by his bedside inside Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he is recovering from brain surgery. The boy and his family were decked out in green Eagles gear. Eagles pennants adorned the wall above the boy’s hospital bed.

Nick Sirianni wants to make it known: He did not shave his head during the bye week.

“I buzzed my head,” Sirianni joked on Monday after the Super Bowl LIX win. "There's a big difference."

Unlike many athletes and coaches, Sirianni is not superstitious, so he didn’t think twice about the haircut — which may or may not have sparked the Eagles’ Super Bowl run.

The majority of Eagles starters will be back next year, but what about Merrill Reese?

With the Birds winning the Super Bowl, it might be tempting for the voice of the Eagles — and the longest-tenured announcer in the NFL — to ride off into the sunset. It certainly would be an appropriate end to a Hall of Fame career for a local boy who landed a dream job calling games for his favorite team.

But ahead of the Super Bowl, the 82-year-old said he has no plans to hang up the headset and plans to be back next season on 94.1 WIP with his longtime broadcast partner, Mike Quick.

As Eagles fans erupted in Super Bowl celebrations Sunday night, President Donald Trump was on Truth Social writing about NFL kickoff rules, targeting Taylor Swift — and not congratulating the Birds for their exhilarating 40-22 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

“The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” Trump wrote in one post shortly after 11 p.m. “She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”

“The worst part of the Super Bowl, by far, was watching the Kickoff where, as the ball is sailing through the air, the entire field is frozen, stiff,” Trump wrote just one minute later, rehashing a complaint of his from Friday. “College Football does not do it, and won’t! Whose idea was it to ruin the Game?”

Despite pleas by the mayor to please refrain from doing it — and the tragic death of an 18-year-old two weeks ago after the Eagles won the NFC title — celebrants in Philadelphia wasted little time getting back to serious pole-climbing following the Birds' Super Bowl victory.

Crowds on East Market near City Hall took down two light poles and took over a bus shelter, climbing on the roof-less top, and a newsstand.

Crowds tried to flip a police vehicle at Broad and Chestnut Streets. At one point, police on foot, motorcycles, and horseback lined up in front of City Hall, standing stoic as some fans shook the barriers and taunted them. About 15 people danced on top of a medic vehicle, and police said they were having trouble controlling the crowd at 13th and Market Streets.

I believe the word we're looking for here is irony.

Heading into the Super Bowl, a big story driven largely by fans on social media was the idea referees favored the Kansas City Chiefs. 

Now one Chiefs star is complaining about the officiation following the Eagles’ lopsided win in Sunday’s Super Bowl 

Jalen Hurts is a Super Bowl champion and no one can ever take that away from him. The 26-year-old overcame setbacks, struggles, and suspicions about his ability to play quarterback at the highest level. But he showed the world that his performance two years ago when the Eagles fell short of beating the Chiefs in the title game that he, if anything, was resilient.

Hurts played spectacularly with the Chiefs selling out to stop Saquon Barkley and the Eagles’ run offense. He completed 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards and tossed two touchdowns. There was an interception in the second quarter, but it was his lone big mistake. Hurts also contributed 72 rushing yards, a Super Bowl record for a quarterback, on 11 carries.

The Eagles quarterback had great protection, which allowed him to go through his reads and wait for receivers to get open or check down when needed. And on the few occasions when protection broke down or a Chiefs blitz worked, Hurts scrambled for first downs. He iced the game with a 46-yard tear drop into receiver DeVonta Smith’s hands in the end zone that gave the Eagles a 34-0 lead late in the third quarter.