WHEN WILL THE EAGLES SETTLE THEIR DEBT AND SAVE OUR LIBRARIES?
D-E-A-D-B-E-A-T-S!
If Jeff Lurie and the Eagles won’t settle the team’s debt, the mayor, everyone on city council, every paper in town, and every fan from every neighborhood should be screaming bloody murder until they do.
The Daily News has printed one single editorial about this. To the best of my knowledge, the Inquirer has said nothing (I would be happy to be corrected). I’ve been trolling philly.com’s sports pages calling attention to the Eagles’ debt, and every day my polite comments are deleted by the administrators. Anyone seen today’s Daily News? Front and back covers celebrating the Eagles, including an egregious picture of Andy Reid with the headline “We Owe You Run” . Yeah, you owe us something alright, and it’s substantially more than bad puns in honor of a corporate deadbeat that’s benefited so much the city
Meanwhile, the Mayor is too busy going to Army-Navy football games and changing his vanity plate to meet with library supporters. I have personally written the mayor twice, and published those letters here, to no response whatsoever. At Saturday’s well-publicized rally at the Main Branch, only two members of council showed up, and only two state representatives.
As for the fans, if the news isn’t telling them that the Eagles are stiffing our communities and kids, how will they know to speak up?
Make sure you pass this video along: our city bleeds green, but the Eagles are bleeding US dry. Make your voice heard! Call the Philadelphia Eagles at 215-463-5500. Call the Mayor’s action center at 215-686-3000. Find your representative on City Council, and ask them why communities have to suffer for the Eagles’ greed and whether they have plans to publicly shame this corproate deadbeat into meeting its obligations to our city, our community, and our kids.
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