Duracell teases Philly about its history with throwing batteries in perfect Super Bowl tweet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
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As soon as Philadelphia made its playoff run to the Super Bowl, there were jokes about batteries. After all, this is the city of fans known for throwing them on the field and even at Doug Pederson during his playing days. And while there have been no reports of massive throwing of batteries post-any Eagles games this year, this Twitter moment from Duracell is the best jab at a city whose electronics might have been a little worse for the wear on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
This was far from the only battery-related joke on Sunday: There was a bit of panic after everyone realized that Bud Light gave Philadelphia fans detachable batteries with a promotional cup during the Super Bowl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
But, luckily, there have been no reports of widespread dismantling of the cups and throwing of their batteries. [jwplayer RFzokCQx-t2dCqACG]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Power play: do Philadelphia Eagles fans really throw batteries on the field?<\/h2>\n\n\n![\"You](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7f6f4107fad0f0bd5c8993dde5816d1938dc36f1\/0_78_4686_2812\/master\/4686.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none\")
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Fans of the Super Bowl winners have been known to hurl batteries at players. Is that how the team kept going and going and going on Sunday night?<\/p>\n\n\nMon 5 Feb 2018 14.17 CET Last modified on Tue 19 Jun 2018 13.19 CEST\n\n\n
Name:<\/strong> batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Age:<\/strong> 219 years; they were invented in 1799 by Alessandro Volta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Appearance:<\/strong> Cylindrical, disc-like, cuboid, shiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Batteries, yes. I do know what they are.<\/strong> Well done, but do you know what they\u2019re for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Making my remote control work.<\/strong> I suppose you could use them for that. But it\u2019s not their main purpose in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Oh. What is? Throwing them at sports stars you don\u2019t like.<\/strong> At least that\u2019s what Philadelphia Eagles fans do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Didn\u2019t they just win the Superbowl Cup? Shouldn\u2019t they be in a good mood?<\/strong> It\u2019s just the \u201cSuper Bowl\u201d, but yes, they did. And now much of the US is cowering from Philadelphia\u2019s memorably raucous fans and their battery-throwing antics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n What kind of batteries? I suppose a few<\/strong> CR2032s<\/strong> would be OK, although you\u2019d lose some spontaneity in the time it takes to prise one from the back of your watch.<\/strong> That\u2019s not their battery of choice. The Eagles\u2019 coach, Doug Pederson, remembers being pelted with size D batteries when he played for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Ouch!<\/strong> \u201cOuch\u201d is not an acceptable word in American football. Besides, throwing things is a beloved part of the culture. In 1968, disgruntled Eagles fans pelted Santa Claus with snowballs during a half-time pageant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Snowballs are OK.<\/strong> How about Skittles? When Marshawn Lynch was a running back for the Seattle Seahawks, fans used to pelt him with his favourite treat when he scored a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n That sounds quite nice. Tasty even.<\/strong> Snacking is a common theme around the world. Paul Gascoigne ate a Mars bar that was thrown at him by Newcastle fans while he was playing for Spurs. A hamburger was thrown at Gary Neville by Liverpool fans. Barcelona fans threw a whole pig\u2019s head at Lu\u00eds Figo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Trust Spanish fans to throw classier food.<\/strong> Yes, although Chelsea fans used to throw celery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Celery?<\/strong> Fans at Stamford Bridge enjoy singing a rude ditty about the post-watershed uses for the vegetable. Chucking them came later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n How thoughtful \u2013 and an improvement on batteries, which could really hurt someone.<\/strong> Indeed, although batteries themselves are an improvement on the motor scooter thrown by Internazionale fans during a game with Atalanta in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Yikes! And did that become a tradition?<\/strong> Thankfully not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Do say:<\/strong> \u201cLet\u2019s improve that player\u2019s form by hurting him with missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t say:<\/strong> \u201cAt least Eagles players\u2019 remote controls always work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sesglobal.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}