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I Tracked Down Seamus McCaffery, the Judge Who Ruled Over the Veterans Stadium Jail

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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Photo: Judge Seamus McCaffery

It’s impossible to tell the story of Veterans Stadium without talking about the jail and the guy who oversaw everyone who was booked in there, Judge Seamus McCaffery. Luckily he agreed to do an interview with me along with a former inmate:

 

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Maybe one day we’ll release the entire interview with Seamus. It was really interesting stuff, how it started with future Mayor Kenney, and him going down to talk to Jeffrey Lurie and Joe Banner about adding a jail and courtroom, to the national spotlight he received. He said grown men would start to weep as they found out they were losing their season tickets and that former prisoners would stop him in Wildwood for his autograph. He even told me he sold the movie rights to his life to Hollywood and how they wanted him to do a spinoff of Night Court, called Sport Court. How this guy hasn’t written a book yet is beyond me. If the Vet jail was around 20 years later it’d be a gigantic hit on Netflix! He even said it wasn’t Philadelphians who caused much of the problems. It was those mongrels from South Jersey coming over the bridge and wreaking havoc!

Good to see nothing has changed:

Thanks to Mick, who runs The Samboners Instagram account, for helping out with the video.

editor’s note: a portion of the above video contains sponsored content

Kyle Pagan
Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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