The New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles will face off during Sunday’s Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis. One famous person who’s on-hand for the big game is actor Bradley Cooper, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up an Eagles fan. He’s talked about his love for the team quite a bit over the years, as Philly.com chronicled late last month:
Yep, Bradley Cooper really loves the Philadelphia Eagles
He grew up cheering for his hometown team.
Meals sometimes even revolved around games, with Cooper recalling the time the Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Championship after the 1980 season.
“We brought the TV into the kitchen so we wouldn’t miss anything,” Cooper said, adding he has been a big fan of Randall Cunningham, Reggie White, and Donovan McNabb over the years. Heck, he was even “happy when Andy Reid came in,” as he told the Inquirer.
Cooper is at the Super Bowl, and he looked thrilled about the Eagles getting in the end zone to take a 9-3 lead over the Patriots in the first quarter.
He’s also been used in Eagles promo videos over the years, too:
He was the voice of the snowball in this ESPN promo earlier this season, alluding to the infamous time Santa Claus got hit with a snowball thrown by Eagles fans back in 1968.
He was able to play out his Eagles fandom during his 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook, for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars. The movie, which also starred Jennifer Lawrence and Robert DeNiro, is set in Philadelphia, and a lot of it is centered around Eagles games:
One of the first things Cooper’s dad (De Niro) talks to him about is how pissed off he was at DeSean Jackson dropping the ball on the one-yard line and negating a touchdown against the Cowboys. A fantastic nugget. Also, any male sports fan can relate to how De Niro’s character and his son try to use sports as the starting point for a real father-son relationship.
“Such a big part of this movie is the sports aspect, and the Eagles, specifically,” Cooper told the Daily News in 2012. “There’s such a great sports angle to this movie. And we tried to be as authentic as we could to the reality of what it’s like to be in a sports town.”
He’s also spotted at Eagles games frequently:
And has joined owner Jeffrey Lurie in singing the team’s fight song:
He got to see the birds beat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship in Philly, too.
Perhaps Cooper can be a good luck charm for the Eagles against the Pats.
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