Spontaneous pep rallies for Eagles, Vikings break out during 76ers, Wild games
A chance for the home team to play in a Super Bowl is a big deal in any city.
When you get a pair of teams playing for a Super Bowl berth that have a combined zero Super Bowl wins despite playing through the entire Super Bowl era, things get turned up a notch. Or two.
The volume was raised in both Minneapolis and Philadelphia Saturday night as spontaneous pep rallies broke out during the Wild-Lightning and 76ers-Bucks games with fans of both teams belting out the increasingly popular competing rallying cries for their respective home teams.
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First, Minneapolis, where the Skol clap and chant took over the Xcel Energy Center in the third period as the Wild put the clamps down on the Lightning.
#SKOL chant breaks out at the Wild game pic.twitter.com/r0h1ROwG05
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 21, 2018
On to Philadelphia, where the home crowd enthusiastically responded to a 76ers wish of good luck to the Eagles as the home team was en route to an easy win over the Bucks.
#Sixers wish the #Eagles luck tomorrow and the fans were loud. pic.twitter.com/kCp6pbuvUq
— Jessica Camerato (@JCameratoNBCS) January 21, 2018
That makes for a pretty good Saturday night in both cities. Go out and watch the home team score wins, and keep the party going with the NFC championship pre-game buzz at its peak.
There was even some support in Minnesota from Twins players, who appeared to have met up in a dank Minneapolis batting cage to provide some comic relief to the passion on display from fans of their NHL and NBA counterparts.
SKOL! #BringItHome, @Vikings! pic.twitter.com/jzTUyIn6YZ
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) January 20, 2018
The energy’s not quite the same there. But you can’t blame them. It is the offseason, after all.