Eagles fans flock to Vegas for 4-day tailgate in Las Vegas

Different shades of greenish were evident passim Allegiant Stadium Sunday arsenic Philadelphia Eagles faithful made their beingness felt successful Las Vegas.

Eagles fans are 1 of the champion traveling instrumentality bases successful the NFL, truthful it should person been nary surprise, particularly for the team’s archetypal go-round successful Las Vegas.

Cheers were astir arsenic large for Philadelphia connected large plays arsenic they were for the hometown Raiders, with Eagles fans sitting successful each portions of the stadium, including successful the infamous Black Hole, located successful the southbound extremity zone. Philly fans adjacent broke retired successful their combat song, “Fly Eagles Fly,” erstwhile the Eagles scored the game’s archetypal touchdown.

Secondary summons outlet TickPick said the crippled was the astir costly Week 7 game, fetching an mean selling terms of $537. That is 40 percent higher than the adjacent astir costly game, the Seahawks-Saints with a $383 mean selling price.

Of those who purchased tickets to the Raiders-Eagles, 33 percent had a Pennsylvania zip code.

Many fans from the Philadelphia country said it was a no-brainer to marque the travel to drawback their squad against the Raiders successful Las Vegas.

“We effort to spell to 1 crippled each twelvemonth and erstwhile this 1 deed we looked and went ‘Oh we’re going to Vegas and the caller stadium, we gotta spell spot what they’re doing there,” James Griffth, Wilmington, Delaware, nonmigratory said. “It’s similar 1 monolithic tailgate for the full weekend. This has been similar 4 days of tailgating, we’ve fundamentally been tailgating since we showed up.”

Griffith and his wife, Meagan McDonald, predominant Las Vegas often and adjacent got joined here. With their doubly yearly trips to Las Vegas they’ve seen that Las Vegas is simply a worthy pro sports town.

“It’s amazing,” McDonald said. “The play we got joined the Golden Knights were successful the Stanley Cup Finals and we astir went to that due to the fact that we’re sports fans,” McDonald said. “But being present for our squad is amazing, it’s a antithetic feeling.”

Phans of Philly is simply a concern that sets up each inclusive roadworthy crippled trips for Eagles fans and proprietor Joe DiBiaggio said they had astir 1,000 radical booked for this trip.

“Coming disconnected the pandemic, radical were a small anxious to travel,” DiBiaggio said. “With Vegas being connected the docket for a mates of years I deliberation radical were looking guardant to it and we had a immense demand.”

DiBiagio said they received 400 deposits for the crippled earlier the scheduled day for the crippled was released. Along with the each inclusive trip, Phans of Philly organized a tailgate portion for fans to conscionable up and hole for the crippled Sunday morning.

One of those fans astatine the tailgate, Ryan Frost, from Conshokocken, Pennsylvania, said helium doesn’t travel to Las Vegas often, but helium had to marque the travel for his team.

“We spell connected a roadworthy travel each twelvemonth and arsenic soon arsenic they announced Las Vegas I circled my calendar,” Frost said. “I haven’t been present successful 10 oregon 12 years… It’s (Las Vegas) the champion city, man, truthful wherefore not enactment a shot crippled successful the mediate of it. It’s a enactment municipality here.”

With the dense Eagles beingness Griffith said helium knows Raiders fans are passionate and helium conscionable hoped that Philly fans would correspond appropriately.

“We tin instrumentality retired immoderate of the assemblage sound and marque definite that everybody knows that we’re here,” Griffith said. “We’re here, we cognize it’s your home, but we’re here.”

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