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Should a Grown Man Be Able to Control Himself in Front of A.J. Brown?
By Kyle Pagan
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Nice video from the Eagles social team of A.J. Brown grabbing some hot chocolate for a kid during a live action ass-whooping on a 10° Sunday:
That’s a solid video that should bring Eagles fans some holiday cheer, but all I can see is a grown man losing his mind and shaking a Sharpie in Brown’s face:
Listen, I’m not a parent so I’m not going to tell anyone how they should react to their son(?) experiencing a core memory with one of the greatest Eagles of all-time, but then again: Grow up, dude. What’re we doing here? Is it too much to ask that we live in the moment? Is it really the time to add an autograph to your card collection or an eBay store? Jesus. Credit to the social team trying to edit around this buffoon and add in an audio track so we didn’t have to hear the guy beg for a John Hancock. I know they weren’t trying to make the guy the focal point of a great deed from Brown, but it’s all I can watch. Each time I replay it back it makes my skin crawl and I break into a hot sweat. This guy screams autograph hound. Like those guys that sit outside the Four Seasons hoping to get a player to sign something so they can flip it online. Those guys are the worst of the worst.
I know I’ve picked on this guy for too long, but one more thing: Are those three different hoodies?
This might be the most egregious thing about this video. Can someone get my guy a winter coat for Christmas? He’s sitting front row, so he has to have Canada Goose money. At worst, he has North Face money. He looks fatter than Philip Rivers.
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