Well, they did it.
The Philadelphia Eagles didn’t just win the Super Bowl on Sunday night, they turned in one of the most dominant performances in the game’s history against a quarterback and head coach that will one day go down as perhaps the greatest duo in NFL history.
Your Philadelphia Eagles are dynasty killers.
There will be a parade on Friday. We will all watch the highlights and debate about the most memorable plays for months. While we do all that, Philadelphia Phillies pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Clearwater, Florida for the start of their spring training on Wednesday.
I gotta say, the Eagles winning the Super Bowl is quite a nice handoff to a Phillies team that is primed to also win a long-overdue championship.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie got his damn trophy back, and now John Middleton’s boys have a chance to do the same. There was 2022’s near-miss, a team that surprised us all and fell two games short of winning the World Series, 2023’s squad that was on an Eagles-like roll in the postseason up until Games 6 and 7 of the NLCS, and last year’s NL East-winning disappointment against the Mets. The 2025 Phillies mandate consists of one thing only – winning it all.
Jalen Hurts won his title. Will Bryce Harper finally win his?
Most Philadelphia sports fans root for all the teams in the city, although most fans have a favorite. For a majority, the Eagles hold the No. 1 spot in their hearts, although there are some whose first love is the Phils, Flyers or Sixers. But generally speaking, we all want a parade, and we’re not particularly picky who brings one to us, so one could imagine the Phils’ front office perhaps breathing a slight sigh of relief watching the Eagles win it all last Sunday night in New Orleans, knowing the fanbase will be a tad more satiated than if they had fallen to Kansas City for the second time in three years.
The city has another championship. It’s not all on the Phillies’ shoulders.
Of course, the Phillies want to win it all for themselves, and eventually, the buzz from this Eagles Super Bowl title will fade. Before too long, the weather will turn hot and sticky and the Phils will be the only game in town. In the heat of a pennant race, the fanbase will remember how desperate both they are, and the team is, to finally win a World Series in the Harper Era.
But the pressure valve has been released a bit, and that’s good for the Phillies. Attention is focused elsewhere, allowing the team to get their feet under them and get ready for an all-important 2025 season that could see a partial end of this era of Phils baseball.
Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto are entering the final years of their deals. Both could get contract extensions this spring, but both may not. Ranger Suarez is almost certainly gone at the end of the season. The roster has a number of players hoping for bounce-back seasons – Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, Bryson Stott, Max Kepler, Jesus Luzardo, Jordan Romano and Jose Alvarado, to name a few – and some of the other veterans are getting older with each passing year.
It feels like the time is now for this current squad to get it done, if it’s going to happen at all.
At the moment, we’re all basking in Eagles euphoria, and it is glorious. A Phils’ World Series title would almost feel like the cherry on top of this particular sports sundae, not the ice cream itself.
But that will all certainly change as the calendar flips to October eight months from now.
In the meantime, there’s a parade in Philadelphia on Friday. Meanwhile, pitchers and catchers will be popping mitts thousands of miles away under the palm trees and warm, sunny skies of Clearwater.
That strange feeling you’re feeling is called “happiness.”
Make sure to check out the latest Hittin’ Season podcast, in which we answered five burning questions for the Phillies as pitchers and catchers report to camp this week!
