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Originally Posted by Locke

I thought those were Phillies fas, but yes, batteries were thrown at Santa in Philly.

Snowballs as well lol

“Then I started getting hit with them,” Olivo told ESPN in an interview a few years before he died in 2015. “I remember watching a fellow make a snowball and throw it at me. I just walked up to him at the bottom of the wall, and I said, ‘You’re not getting anything for Christmas!’ ”

Of course, it wasn’t really about Santa. It was about a terrible team with a terrible owner and a terrible coach, and a city that had had enough.

As Hochman put it: “The fans pelted Santa Claus with snowballs, because the 1968 Eagles stank like the sewers of Manayunk” — hey wait, that’s my old neighborhood — “because an incompetent coach named Joe Kuharich, who couldn’t win at Notre Dame, had been given a 15-year contract by the owner, Jerry Wolman. . . . The fans pelted Santa Claus with snowballs because they would have needed a bazooka to reach the owner’s box.”

Even if it wasn’t about Santa, he deserved what he got, if only as a symbol of everything Philadelphia hadn’t gotten from its football team.

Even Olivo, who went on to work in casinos, car sales, and the mortgage business, understood.

“You hear the booing,” Olivo told ESPN. “You hear it. I said, ‘Well, you know, I understand what’s going on here. They’re not booing me. They’re not just booing Santa Claus; they’re booing everything.’ ”

They’re booing everything. Now there’s something a Philadelphian can be proud of.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/p...2bO/story.html