While Super Bowl Week is typically underwhelming when you\u2019re not a fan of one of the two teams in the Big Game, Friday night provided some entertainment aimed right at the Delaware Valley. ESPN\u2019s latest 30 for 30 documentary The Philly Special aired on the network and gave a look at the 2017 Eagles, the most famous play in the history of Philadelphia sports and five central figures to it all: Doug Pederson, Nick Foles, Jason Kelce, Corey Clement and Trey Burton.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen every football, baseball and basketball 30 for 30. I believe the quality has dipped over the years for the series overall, but The Philly Special was, well, special. Am I biased? Sure, to a degree that I lived through this time just as millions of other Eagles fans did, but that also means I was coming into this a bit guarded. You can\u2019t mess this up! I was expecting it to be just OK, but as the hour-long documentary progressed, I certainly shed a few tears remembering what that team and what that play mean for this city.<\/p>\n
The opening of The Philly Special was a little kitschy and made me wary that I was about to watch something that didn\u2019t full grasp the catharsis the 2017 Eagles brought everyone from around here<\/a>, but those fears proved unfounded. Co-directors Shannon Furman and Angela Zender walked a fine line and did so well. There\u2019s an inherent silliness to Philadelphia that is only matched but its berserk passion, especially when it comes to the Birds. Whether the doc was focusing five Philly Specialists, the intricacies that went into that play or the impact that Super Bowl victory had on Eagles fans far and wide, it made for an engrossing watch.<\/p>\n There\u2019s not much in the way of new information for hardcore Eagles fans, as this stands more so as a great way to dive deep into the nostalgia of what made the winer of 2018 such a wonderful time to be alive, but there was one thing I did find curious. According to Foles, the first rendering of the Foles-Pederson Philly Special statue featured Carson Wentz on the lower half and Foles\u2019 upper body. The official 30 for 30 social media account even posted a clip of it:<\/p>\n That\u2019s pretty bizarre given how the respective standing of each player in Philly changed once that statue was unveiled and the 2018 season commenced, but such is the story of Foles\u2019 life.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you\u2019re not thrilled with this weekend\u2019s football viewing options, go back and relieve the magic of Super Bowl LII with this documentary!<\/p>\n As for where to stream after it aired, it looks like it\u2019s on ESPN\u2019s website and app <\/a>if you have an ESPN Unlimited subscription. Additionally, as a Disney+\/Hulu\/ESPN Select bundle subscriber, I\u2019m able to watch it on Disney+<\/a>, so if you\u2019re in that boat as well, that could be an option for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Super Bowl Week is typically underwhelming when you\u2019re not a fan of one of the two teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,5406,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-734993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027586312739990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}