Carnage on streets as Philadelphia Eagles fans celebrate Super Bowl win by setting fires, climbing cop cars & brawling
EAGLES fans have left carnage on the streets of Philadelphia as they celebrated the Super Bowl win by setting fires, climbing on cop cars, and brawling.
Revellers let off fireworks and took over the center of the city after their team dominated the Kansas City Chiefs 40 to 22 in New Orleans on Sunday night.
Cops estimated some 10,000 Eagles fans were out on Broad Street and nearby following the Super Bowl 59 win with some climbing light poles, trees, and sanitation trucks.
City Hall was lit up with greens lights as the crowds gathered in front of it chanting for their team.
A crowd on 12th and Market streets ransacked a truck full of white towels outside a hotel and then set fire to them.
Some fans lit a Chiefs jersey on fire and shouted "f*** Taylor Swift".
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One group of fans pulled down a traffic light and then kicked it broken before they lifted it onto a truck.
Bizarre scenes saw men in banana suits climb on top of a bus stop and a person dressed as Elmo egged on by a crowd in a dance-off.
Cops kept a heavy presence in the area and had to call for backup after their repeated calls for people to leave went unheard.
Officers on horseback broke crowds apart and motorcycle cops pinned down those who became too rowdy.
One clip posted to social media showed a cop shove a man who appeared to be trying to jump over security gates.
Philadelphia cops ordered the crowd to disperse at 1.35am in an alert broadcast to cellphones.
The win in New Orleans on Sunday marked only the second time the Eagles had lifted the Vince Lombardi trophy.
Philadelphia fans inside the Superdome brought the noise and made a sizeable impact on the Chiefs' offense.
The Eagles' defence stopped the Chiefs' three-peat in its tracks and lead to the nearly 20-point blowout.
Fans even tail gated at the graves of their loved ones, reports claimed.
President Donald Trump also attended the game and dug into Travis Kelce's girlfriend Taylor Swift after the singer was booed.
He posted on social media: "The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift.
"She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!"
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Trump left the match at half time after attending the game with his children Ivanka and Eric as well as his wife Lara.
Before the game, Trump shared that he was rooting for the Chiefs.
