NJ elementary school has kids punch Cowboys player posters, out of Eagles loyalty

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The Philadelphia Eagles' upcoming crippled against the Dallas Cowboys has an simple schoolhouse successful New Jersey letting its students t-off connected posters successful the hallway. 

FOX 29 Philadelphia aired footage of students astatine Cooper's Point Family School successful Camden, New Jersey, utilizing punching bags with posters of Cowboys players taped on. The footage went viral connected societal media. 

The stunt has garnered mixed reactions. 

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The Dallas Cowboys are coming into the crippled with a 4-5-1 record. The Eagles pb the NFC astatine 8-2, and are looking to triumph their 2nd consecutive Super Bowl, and 3rd since 2017. The upcoming crippled volition instrumentality spot astatine Dallas, aft the Eagles won the past gathering betwixt the 2 teams successful Philadelphia connected the opening Thursday nighttime of the NFL season. 

Eagles fans person earned a arguable estimation for abrasive behaviour implicit the years. 

After the Eagles' Super Bowl triumph this past February, footage captured by FreedomNewsTV purportedly showed a assemblage looting a laundry motortruck and tossing towels into the air. Police were seen responding to a occurrence arsenic a heap of laundry was acceptable ablaze. 

In different clip, 2 individuals could beryllium seen toppling a airy pole. Once it deed the ground, a assemblage rushed astir it and started smashing it with their feet. Then members of the assemblage picked the rod up and started carrying it done the city’s downtown area. 

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In January, Eagles fans came nether a nationalist microscope aft 1 of their own, Ryan Caldwell, was seen verbally assaulting a pistillate Green Bay Packers instrumentality successful viral footage astatine the team's chaotic paper playoff game. 

Former Dallas Cowboys subordinate DeMarcus Ware, who played a crippled successful Philadelphia each twelvemonth during his Dallas vocation from 2005 to 2013, told Fox News Digital that helium erstwhile had to witnesser Eagles fans hurl projectiles astatine his mother, Brenda Ann Ware, during a crippled his rookie twelvemonth successful 2005.

"My rookie play erstwhile my ma was successful the stands, I told her not to deterioration my jersey, and she was successful the beforehand row, and were up determination successful Philly, they were putting batteries successful snowballs and throwing them and 1 of them deed my mom," Ware said. 

Seeing his parent get pegged by a snow-covered artillery astir prompted Ware to wantonness his shot duties and tally up into the stands to commencement a fight. 

"I turned astir astatine the time, and I didn't attraction astir shot anymore. I wanted to spell get the feline who was successful the stands. But I didn't," Ware said. 

In 2018, an Eagles instrumentality was arrested during the NFC divisional playoff crippled against the Falcons, for punching the equine of a Philadelphia constabulary officer. 

According to a constabulary study astatine the time, a antheral was ejected due to the fact that "he was intoxicated and did not person a ticket." After his ejection from Lincoln stadium, the antheral walked toward a constabulary serviceman mounted connected a equine and "began punching the equine successful the face, cervix and enarthrosis area." 

After the Eagles won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots that aforesaid year, aggregate convulsive riots broke retired astir the city. Looting and demolition were reported astatine aggregate convenience shops and a section Macy's section store. Cars were flipped over, postulation lights and lamp posts were torn down.

One of the astir storied examples of unruly Eagles instrumentality behaviour took spot each mode backmost successful 1968, erstwhile a antheral dressed arsenic Santa Claus walked retired onto the field. He was booed relentlessly by fans who were upset astir a disappointing play and, similar Ware's mother, helium was adjacent deed with snowballs. 

In 1997, during a Monday nighttime crippled against the San Francisco 49ers, 1 mischievous Eagles instrumentality changeable a flare weapon into the stands afloat of different fans, endangering aggregate lives. 

After the flare was shot, aggregate fistfights broke retired astir the stadium arsenic astir of the unit was directed astatine 49ers fans by Eagles fans. 

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"There were a ample fig of fights and acts of intimidation, galore directed astatine fans successful 49ers jerseys," the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote astatine the time.

After the game, Eagles proprietor Jeffrie Lurie was forced to condemn his ain fans. 

"In spite of the information that we consciousness we person made important strides successful caller years with respect to instrumentality behaviour astatine Veterans Stadium, what we witnessed this past Monday was undoubtedly a measurement backward," Lurie told reporters astatine the time.

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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.

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