There’s an old blues song called “I Ain’t Superstitious,” but as long as the Phillies are red hot, this guy has to keep wearing his custom “Boner 4 Ever” jersey to Citizens Bank Park:

It really is a work of art. Can’t think of a better custom jersey out there.

If you’re living under a rock, or in the suburbs, “Boner 4 Ever” is the famous work of graffiti on a derelict building that used to be the National Bank of North Philadelphia. You can see it if you’re coming down Broad Street and hit Erie Avenue right before Temple Hospital.

Billy Penn wrote a 2020 feature story explaining that it’s actually the combined work of two artists:

“It’s amazing how these stories just form out of nowhere,” said Culture Livingston, a former graffiti artist who went by DENSKE in the late ’80s and ’90s. “They’re all incorrect.” While the tag does represent two artists, there wasn’t any beef that brought them together, he said.

“The two just met, and they just went out writing,” Livingston told Billy Penn. “It’s as simple as that.”

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Boner hails from Brooklyn, per Livingston, and came to Philly just to write.

“A few years back, Boner was tearing shit up,” Livingston said. “He really made a name for himself, especially as a New York transplant to be able to come to Philly and cover area in a way we respect, it was a significant thing.”

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Meanwhile, Forever is a Philly graffiti artist from the Frankford area who’s been tagging for a while. He used to write “kid” and sometimes still does. Forever’s tag is often spelled “4ever” or “4eva.”

So there you have it. The building is actually slated for redevelopment, so if Boner 4 Ever goes away, we’ll need Phillies fan to keep it going.