“This team reminds me of the 1993 Phillies,” former mayor and governor Ed Rendell told Philly mag. “Just a bunch of working stiffs, not glamorous whatsoever. So blue collar. If the Jaguars had beaten New England [in Sunday’s AFC Championship] we would’ve been favored and everyone would’ve been bummed, including the team. So in some ways, Carson Wentz’s injury caused the fans’ relationship to the team to be more intense, like it is with those ’93 guys. Because we in Philadelphia view ourselves as underdogs.”
