🏈The fun of rivalry | Morning Newsletter
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Today’s weather should be blessedly ideal for tonight’s Eagles game, which is truly personal.
In today’s newsletter:
🏈 Interesting: Columnist Mike Sielski writes that while the Cowboys are “America’s Team,” the Eagles are Philly’s team.
🦅 Eagles predictions: We predict the Dallas Cowboys are going down.
⚾ A Phillies moment: The fans have perhaps never been more ready for this Phillies postseason.
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— Ashley Hoffman (@_AshleyHoffman, morningnewsletter@inquirer.com)
🎤 And now I’m handing the microphone over to columnist Mike Sielski:
Ahead of Sunday night’s big game at Lincoln Financial Field — the 4-1 Cowboys against the 5-0 Eagles — there has been some chirping out of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, some of it good-natured, some of it less so.
When former Eagles tackle Jason Peters called the team’s fans “[expletive] idiots,” for instance, he wasn’t being malicious or insulting; he was praising them for their passion. But when defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence said of Jalen Hurts, “All you all need to write is he hasn’t played the Cowboys yet, so we don’t know how good is he,” he was engaging in the kind of chest-puffing and edgy trash-talking that makes a rivalry game like this one fun.
Keep reading as Sielski even brings in Jason Kelce to talk about how these teams are so different. 🔑
What you should know today
With an 8-3 victory over the Braves, the Phillies advance to their first NLCS since 2010.
We investigated the police district leader with a reputation as an absentee boss.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced a tentative agreement with its striking workers.
And we have an exclusive sit-down with the new museum director.
Philly should do all it can to save Chinatown, and not trust empty promises, write former residents of Chinatown in Washington, D.C., from their own experience.
Which museum’s closing its doors? Take our Inquirer news Quizzo to see how you rank against our other readers.
The small town in the new Halloween Ends has a connection to a real-life South Jersey town, and this story delivers on the vintage photos horror tip.
We expect the Eagles to beat the Dallas Cowboys in what could be a close game.
At long last, a headstone for a veteran and piano tuner from South Philly who served with the Union Army.
Local coronavirus numbers: Here’s your daily look at the latest COVID-19 data.
❓Pop Quiz❓
How Tajiri the lion gets into the seasonal spirit in a very excellent animal content Taylor Allen brought you in a recent newsletter.
A) pumpkin spice
B) pumpkin with cinnamon sprinkled on top
C) a nap in a pile of leaves
D) a little witch hat
Find out if you remember the answer.
🧩 Unscramble the Anagram 🧩
One of Eastern State Penitentiary’s most famous residents.
CLEO LUTIST WILKINS
We’ll select a reader at random to shout out here. Send us your own original anagram to unscramble if you’d like. Email us if you know the answer. Cheers to Claire Chepurny who correctly guessed Rob Dunphy as Friday’s answer.
Photo of the Day
🎶 When you move in right up close to me. That’s when I get the shakes all over me.🎶
👋🏽 I would love us to vanquish these Cowboys today. I’ll be relaxing until this game after seeing the Gorillaz concert last night at the Met.