A South Jersey Eagles fan looking for missed connection who tossed a compliment her way
A man told Brenna Collier she was beautiful outside the Eagles game. She regrets, sort of, not chasing after him.
Even after a win, compliments are hard to come by at an Eagles game.
Just ask Jalen Hurts.
Most fans only greet one another with a ubiquitous “Go Birds,” a universal acknowledgment of our collective passion. If someone gets personal, it’s usually about the referees. That’s why, when Brenna Collier, who is single, was walking through the parking lots after the Eagles ho-hum 22-16 win over the Carolina Panthers Sunday, she was taken aback by the compliment thrown her way by a man.
“It was something like ‘you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve seen all day. I just wanted you to know’,” Collier said. “It was genuine and just very nice like that and and I was like, ‘oh, wow, that was really nice.’ I yelled out “thank you.”
Genuine and wholesome compliments are seemingly rarer in the modern dating world, Collier said, and while a friend punched her in the arm, and urged her to run up to the man in the truck, she didn’t.
“I guess I was just so taken aback,” she said. “People don’t give out compliments like that anymore.”
Collier went home, back to Burlington County, wrote a few paragraphs about her missed connection, and posted them on the Philadelphia Eagles Fans Group on Facebook. Then she went to bed.
“Anyways, I should have stopped and exchanged numbers but missed my opportunity! By the time I had the guts to turn around, they were driving away,” Collier wrote.
When she woke up Monday, Collier’s post was blowing up. Men were ready to claim the compliment. Women were cheering her on. Some commenters urged the Kelce brothers to take the case.
“I hope you find him Go Birds,” one woman wrote.
As of Wednesday morning, Collier’s post had about 660 shares and 10,000 likes.
“When I woke up, a friend from Massachusetts texted me and he goes ‘was your account hacked?’ It was wild,” she said.
Collier says the man was seated in the back seat of a four-door pickup truck. It was a darker gray color, she said, perhaps a “goldish-gray” and exiting the Citizens Bank Park “S” lot.
“S as in Sam,” she said.
Collier, like many singles, said she’s grown tired of the dating apps, the inconsistent communication, the inexplicable ghosting that takes place. She’s convinced the COVID-19 pandemic changed the dating landscape, for the worse. She longs for the “meet-cute,” the good, old days, with eye contact and, yes, a nice compliment.
Collier, a lifelong Eagles fan, isn’t expecting the man in the truck to materialize, but you never know. She goes to a lot of games and one antidote to dating apps finding something you love, and, perhaps, someone you could love, through your passions.
Go Birds.