The Great Philadelphia Fan Book by Glen MacNow

So, that those pompous blowhards didn’t have the last word.” We decided it was time to set the story straight.

“ brought up all the old cliches – City of Brotherly Shove – all that nonsense. Simers of the LA Times, Dan Patrick of ESPN – just roasted this town and the fans. And, the next day, newspapers, columnists – Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post, T.J. “You know, the incident that finally put us there was the NBA All-Star game in Philadelphia, when Kobe got booed here. The final straw before the pitch to production had a Main Line connection. It also serves as a take-your tired-cliches-and-stuff-’em approach to members of the national media who use the average Philly sports fan for a verbal punching bag. Drew and from the adulation of Buddy Ryan to the booing of Donovan McNabb – the book explains the anatomy of a Philadelphia fan and the circumstances that have built his/her character. It lives on after the whitewashing the Birds suffered to the visiting Carolina Panthers in this season’s championship tilt earlier this month.įrom snowballs at Santa Claus to batteries at J.D. With a foreword from former 76er president Pat Croce, the book begins with the demise that was the 2002 NFC Championship Game between the Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and ends on. “It proves that our audience can read – despite what people might say about the WIP audience.” “I thought we would sell 50,000 over a year or two,” Macnow said.

With 40,000 copies initially shipped out, the book, published by Middle Atlantic Press, has also gone through a second production run totaling another 20,000 copies.

The Great Philadelphia Fan Book by Glen MacNow