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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Morning Bytes column: Fans' scary transformation.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2007
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Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick
Sep. 14--I saw him on the news Sunday night.
Maybe he was drunk when the reporter stuck the microphone in his flushed face. Maybe he was psychologically disturbed. All I know is he was definitely frightening.
This distressed young man in an Eagles jersey was quaking with rage, screeching something scatological about Greg Lewis, behaving like a grief-stricken earthquake survivor who had lost everything.
All because the Eagles were beaten in a football game.
The admittedly ugly defeat had infuriated him. He'd come unglued. His day, and quite possibly his week, had been ruined.
He would have ...