Empire State Building lights up green to support Eagles and creates firestorm: ‘You are dead to me’

The Empire State Constructing, within the coronary heart of New York Metropolis, lit up inexperienced on Sunday night time to point out help for the Philadelphia Eagles after the crew gained the NFC Championship and clinched a spot in Tremendous Bowl LVII.

The notion that one of the iconic buildings on this planet with the New York Giants and the New York Jets taking part in of their yard would mild up inexperienced to help a rival didn’t sit properly with some soccer followers.

The backlash instantly started on social media.

NYC Sanitation, whose colours are additionally inexperienced and white, tweeted, “For anybody who finds this as treacherous, traitorous, and unforgivable as we do – simply fake it is inexperienced and white for #NewYorksStrongest. We take out the trash every single day…and subsequent yr, that’ll embrace the Eagles.”

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The Eagles defeated the 49ers, 31-7, to get again to the Tremendous Bowl, which can happen Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and will probably be seen on FOX.

Jan 29, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;  Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) celebrates with offensive sort out Lane Johnson (65) and extensive receiver A.J. Brown (11) throughout the NFC Championship trophy presentation after win towards the San Francisco 49ers within the NFC Championship recreation at Lincoln Monetary Discipline.
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Philadelphia was propelled to victory behind touchdowns from Jalen Hurts, Miles Sanders and Boston Scott. All three gamers scored speeding touchdowns and Sanders had two of these scores.

Hurts, an NFL MVP candidate, was 15 of 25 with 121 passing yards. He additionally had 39 yards on the bottom on 11 carries with a landing. Kenneth Gainwell led the Eagles in speeding yards with 48. Sanders had 42 and Scott had 21.

Jan 29, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles followers rejoice after win towards the San Francisco 49ers within the NFC Championship recreation at Lincoln Monetary Discipline.
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DeVonta Smith led the Eagles in receiving with two catches for 36 yards. A.J. Brown had 4 catches for 28 yards.

Issues did not get higher for the social media crew after the Empire State Constructing account tweeted that it modified its coloration to purple to help the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs who defeated the Cincinnati Bengals to win the AFC Championship.

Within the last moments, Patrick Mahomes galloped for a primary down and picked up extra yards after he was pushed to the bottom when he was already out of bounds.

It arrange a Harrison Butker go-ahead subject objective.

Kansas Metropolis gained the sport 23-20.