The Jacksonville Jaguars provided the Philadelphia Eagles an early Christmas present on Sunday when the group beat the Dallas Cowboys, and Philadelphia returned the favor Monday.
Jeff Harris, owner of Jacksonville diningestablishment Philly’s Finest, got the call for 35 cheesesteaks and 25 big frenchfries to be provided to Jaguars coach Doug Pederson at TIAA Bank Field on Monday.
He stated he was atfirst anxious it was a client who was simply stating it was the Eagles buying the food, however somebody from the company reached out to Harris and validated it was the genuine offer. Although orders of this size aren’t uncommon for the diningestablishment, he stated, it was unanticipated to have somebody from Philadelphia putting the order.
“Someone called in food and I made food, and the carrier selected it up and brought it to the arena,” Harris stated.
A Jaguars representative validated the cheesesteaks showedup at the workplace and “were withoutdelay consumed.”
With the Cowboys’ defeat to the Jaguars, NFC East department competitors Eagles can clinch the NFC’s No. 1 seed and a first-round playoff bye by winning simply one of their 3 last videogames. Already in the playoffs, the Cowboys requirement to win their staying videogames and the Eagles lose their staying videogames for Dallas to win the department.
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Philly’s Finest hasactually been a staple of the neighborhood for practically 23 years and sees a “massive Eagles fan club” of about 200-250 individuals come in for every videogame with almost every seat filled by 11: 30 a.m. most Sundays.
A coupleof months ago, the diningestablishment offered its one-millionth cheesesteak.
“We have a lot of Philly transplants,” Harris stated. “So it wasn’t that insane, however it was absolutely unanticipated to get a call from the Eagles.”
The response to the Jaguars win “was kind of insane,” he included, since the Eagles videogame had simply ended and Harris was in the procedure of changing to the next videogame when one TELEVISION in the back captured the end of the Jaguars videogame.
“The back of the diningestablishment began blowingup, and when the [rest of the] TVs changed over, the entire location went insane,” he stated. “It was a double win — it was a triple win, truly. Eagles won, Jaguars won, and Cowboys lost. It was fantastic.”