Jalen Hurts Sends Letter to Washington Football Team, Asks How They're Going to Fix Their Crap Stadium (Paraphrasing)
Following the Birds’ Sunday win over the Washington Football Team, a railing next to the locker room tunnel gave way, dropping some dudes right next to Jalen Hurts. Everybody came out of it relatively unscathed, but if the Eagles quarterback was standing a few feet to his left, he could have been injured.
Now Hurts has penned a letter to the WFT, asking (and I’m paraphrasing) how they are going to fix their shit stadium:
#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts sent a letter today to the Washington Football Team and the NFL, asking what follow-up action will be taken after a “near-tragic incident” when a railing collapsed Sunday at FedEx Field. Several fans fell; Hurts narrowly avoided potentially serious injury. pic.twitter.com/dfgwGndH9h
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 4, 2022
There’s video of Hurts talking about this as well, from Tuesday’s media availability:
.@JalenHurts on the railing collapsing after Sunday's game pic.twitter.com/DcvHcbd10g
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) January 4, 2022
You’ve probably seen the video a hundred times now. There was a group of Eagles fans leaning over the railing, trying to high five Hurts on his exit from the field. There was too much weight placed on the thing and it collapsed. I don’t know anything about liability law or whatever, but this has happened at plenty of places. It happened at Veterans Stadium in the late 90s, during an Army/Navy game, so even though FedExField is a dump, this isn’t some super-unique, one-off situation.
We’re having fun trolling Washington but this letter is kind of pointless. They’re not gonna respond with anything meaningful. An accident took place. The railings should be more secure. Gotta be bolted down permanently or raised higher so that fans aren’t leaning like that in the first place. If Washington PR knew what they were doing, there would have been a more declarative statement originally, and a follow up statement the next day. They’ll probably just say the Eagles fans shouldn’t have been hanging over the rail and that they themselves “gotta do a better job,” as Andy Reid would tell you.
#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts was sacked only once during today’s game. Almost had a second on his way to the locker room. pic.twitter.com/WwBE5pXaxO
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) January 2, 2022