PHOENIX — No city’s fans combine supreme confidence, mother bear protectiveness and unrelenting demands the way Philadelphia’s do. To root for a Philly team is to always expect success, to be devastated — aggrieved, even — in the face of failure, and to insist that the world know exactly how you feel. As the Eagles’ Jason Kelce proudly proclaimed last year, in his epic, breathless, post-Super Bowl rant on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “No one likes us, we don’t care.”Into this caldron steps Bryce Harper, who really seems to crave it. “One guy was like, ‘Can you please sign for my son?’ and then: ‘You’d better not blow any saves this year. We’re going to come down hard on you if you do!’ I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ ”Lidge did as instructed in that 2008 season.

Source: New York Times March 02, 2019 00:22 UTC