That sounds pretty exaggerated. Here's the news story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about the celebration Nobody is embarrassed except a few drunks with their hangovers.

from the article:

But despite an occasionally chaotic end to the night, the celebration
of the Eagles’ victory was largely a peaceful affair. Officers hung
back and let the public jubilation play out, stepping in only to avert
the most unruly behavior and to prevent the beer-fueled masses from
injuring themselves.

Some appeared eager to get in on the revelry themselves. They
high-fived fans streaming out of Broad Street bars and stood by as men
and boys set off fireworks in the streets around City Hall. Others –
eager to capture the once-in-a-lifetime moment in Philadelphia sports history – shot selfies and videos on their cellphones.

Did you read the story you posted? Looting, toppling lightpoles? I'm sure that's the tip of the iceberg.

I think it's more isolated than an iceberg.

You will get drunks and crazies doing this in any city, Philly being no exception.

Honestly, I expected worse, having celebrated victories in the streets myself.

What's different from any other super bowl victory celebration? I'm happy for Philly!

Yup, it was quite contained, and the police did a great job. Philly fans are know for the lamp post stunts and it's become a joke/challenge. In all, it was not worse than most other championship celebrations in other cities.

I am just always confused as to why there has to be that kind of response to a win at all. Why do the fans have to get so out of control and do such extreme things? Even if it’s the people who lost behaving poorly, what kind of sportsmanship is that? IMO, it gets pretty boring and repetitious when the same team wins every year. (Can you tell I’m not into sports?)

It is always a few out-of-control people who ruin it for the majority of peaceful, respectful fans and residents of Philadelphia. Of course, the media will focus on the bad behavior. Happy, relatively quiet fans are ignored. Same with what happened to the Vikings fan at the Linc, it was a few drunks who made it terrible for a few people.

Philly fans get a bad rap.

Sure, they pelted Santa with ice balls and yes, they booed him, but....ok, I can't defend that. LOL!

I'm so happy Philadelphia won but I do think it is crazy when fans (anywhere) cause a lot of destruction. That's nuts.

I don't get it either but it's an interesting phenomenon certainly not isolated to Philly fans.

I'm sure it has something to do with the lure of mutiny.

And the addition of a lot of beer.....

There will always be those who look for an excuse to act out.

There was a commentary about Philly's reputation on the radio last week - probably the local NPR station (WHYY) because that's the only station I listen to while driving. The premise was that no matter how awful sports fans may be in other cities it has become accepted that Philly fans are the worst.

The speaker mentioned similar behavior in other cities with other teams but felt that the media in general has been lazy and it's easier to just continue to recite the same stories.

I am embarrassed that some idiotic fans have gone too far. I honestly hope those that have caused damage are fined and I pray that we manage to pull off the parade without further mayhem. Dedtired is right - the majority of fans (including my 2 sons) were just out to celebrate.

It sounds like some of you live in or near Philly, and I'm glad to hear that the destruction that online "news" stories was for the most part exaggerated. Yes, there always are some idiots in the crowd. I was so happy Philly won, as was probably the whole world except for Patriot fans. I love Foles and his story, the love he has for his wife and daughter (and he said he had to mention the dog also otherwise he would get mad-made me love him even more!) He played like Cool Hand Luke! Now the Eagles have a dilemma about what to do with two great quarterbacks. I wish it was a dilemma the Packers had, ha ha.

When the Packers won their last super bowl I did not hear of any such destruction going on.

The Cubs win was largely celebrated by *families*, not a bunch of drunken old boys continuing the fantasy that *they* won the game.

Wrote a response but then deleted it. Not worth arguing about.

I agree Philly gets a bad rap. We here in this part of PA were for the most part celebrating peacefully...yelling and cheering and even hugging. There will always be a bunch of malcontents who use the crowds for their own perverse idea of 'fun". Way to fly, EAGLES!!! We waited a long time for this.

Chisue - I don't want to debate this either but Chicago was one of the cities referenced in the commentary. The Chicago police department has had many years of celebratory victories in which to develop tactics for crowd control.

http://abc7chicago.com/sports/14-arrests-in-wrigleyville-after-cubs-world-series-win/1587036/

There is a cool video posted on FB of hundreds of people in a Philly neighborhood doing the Electric Slide together. Bet we won't see that on CNN, etc.

There are demographic reasons that the Cubs celebrations were refreshingly different from previous Blackhawks and Bulls celebrations. We are used to seeing "looting" and "West Side" in the same story, whether sports-related or not. You would be hard pressed to find Cubs fans in that part of the city.

I was impressed to see all the children safely attending Cubs celebrations.

Some nut cases are drawn to any 'event'. Even the Women's Marches resulted in some arrests, despite the spurious nature of many of those charges.

thank you for the link mare_cate! things happen everywhere. i am sure if i dig around i could some incidents in every championship town.

my son was in center city and he said it just FUN! no issues where he was. Everyone is over the moon so 99.9% are just people being overjoyed! you always get the idiots with "beer muscles", it happens everywhere.

to address the snowballs at Santa; if you would do a little research instead of just following the herd, then u can find the truth. this happened in the 1968..

here's the link

Looks like the Patriots fans weren't entirely little angels after their team lost.

Riot in Amherst

"Fake news"....???? LOL

i heard that sushipup1. just re-enforces what we are saying - it happens everywhere!!

if you really think this doesn't happen in every city, then you have blinders on. there are idiots everywhere & with social media, there is no hiding it anymore.