Super Bowl Champions.
Still seems weird to say that and Eagles in the same sentence.
One of the great things about sports is that it is a shared experience.
We all watch it together.
At the same time.
We clap, we scream, we bite our nails in unison.
It is handed down from father to son. From moms to. And to their daughters as well. It becomes part of the fiber that weaves its way through generations.
Sunday night was one of those moments.
For long-suffering Eagles fans, maybe the best moment.
I will not deny that I shed a few tears.
But the thing about his job, is that big stories often don't hit me until a week or so later. That's because the immediacy of what we do in delivering news now has a tendency to consume us. We put our head down and plow into the job. We don't always think about the magnitude, the importance of what just happened.
There are other, serious stories out there today.
The stock market is in a freefall.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the Pa. high court that the state's congressional maps must be redrawn.
None of that matters.
At least not for the next few days.
As you may have heard me say a few times recently, these are dire days for the newspaper industry. Our readers increasingly are getting their information online - on their phones and tablets.
We are a portable society these days, requiring the headlines be delivered instantly, to match our attention span.
Print is considered an antique, something our parents once did.
Except for yesterday.
We printed an extra 8,000 copies of Monday's special edition hailing the news that at long last the Eagles were Super Bowl Champions. The front page contained a single word.
Phinally.
Good luck finding one. Stores quickly sold out. People arrived at our offices seeking a copy. The phones were swamped with people wanting to know if they could still order a copy.
People who no longer live in the area reached out to me via email, Twitter and Facebook seeking something they could not find on Amazon or anywhere else online - something they could hold in their hands, confirming what they had just witnessed.
For one day, I was a pretty popular guy.
The party will continue.
We continue to exalt in our newly acquired - and most unusual - status.
We're winners.
It's on our editorial page.
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