Fan finds Eagles jacket left behind at Super Bowl parade with special note attached
Fan finds Eagles jacket at Super Bowl parade with special note attached
FOX 29's Ellen Kolodziej spoke to Amy Rannabarger who found an Eagles jacket abandoned at the parade with a note attached explaining the lore behind the hand-me-down garment.
PHILADELPHIA - An Eagles fan who was among the more than 1 million people who packed Philadelphia on Friday for the team's Super Bowl parade made an unforgettable find.
The fan said in a post on X that she found an Eagles jacket abandoned at the parade with a note attached explaining the lore behind the hand-me-down garment.
The note said the person who left the jacket found it themselves when fans celebrated the Eagles' Super Bowl LII over the Patriots in the streets of Philadelphia.
FOX 29's Ellen Kolodziej spoke to Rannabarger about it all.
The backstory:
Fan finds left behind Eagles jacket at Super Bowl parade with special note attached
An Eagles fan found a jacket that was purposefully left behind at the Super Bowl parade in Philadelphia on Friday. The old school Kelly Green jacket had a special note taped inside, explaining that the person who left it did so on purpose. The fan explains in the note that the jacket was found during celebrations in Philadelphia after the team won Super Bowl LII in 2018. They wanted to pass the jacket along to another fan after the team's second Super Bowl in less than 10 years.
Amy Rannabargar posted a photo of the Eagles jacket to X, formerly known as Twitter, and explained how she found it as she was leaving the Philadelphia Museum of Art after the parade.
The old school Kelly Green Eagles jacket had a note attached to it explaining that the person who left it behind did so on purpose after finding it abandoned.
"I found this jacket on the night of the Super Bowl in 2018, and it only felt right to release it back into the city when the Eagles won again," the note read.
The note encouraged the fan who found the jacket to hold onto it and pass it on the next time to another random Eagles fan the next time the team wins it all.
"Enjoy the opportunity to release it back into the world with another SB win soon," the note read.
Amy could not believe it!
While speaking to FOX 29, she compared the fabulous find to Grateful Dead fans leaving Miracle tickets randomly scattered around.
"And if you find them you know it’s like a miracle and so that kind of went through my head I’m like, Oh my God it’s an Eagles version of that. I think this is so awesome, like I wanna pass the love and joy on you know?" said Rannabargar.
Amy shared the story on social media, where thousands of people have liked and commented and shared the tale that she hopes might lead to more people paying it forward.
"Next Super Bowl win I feel like everyone is going to be on the hunt for the Super Bowl jacket and so I hope the next person carries on the tradition and it just keeps going!" said the Eagles fan.
What's next:
Amy’s predicting a two-peat and already thinking about where she’s gonna hide that jacket next year!
Oh, and another surprise in all this?
She’s from Dallas of all places and just moved to Philadelphia five years ago and immediately fell in love with the Eagles.
Go Birds!