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A song titled "The Great Santa Snowball Debacle of 1968" was released in 2006. [1] In 2009, Olivo returned to an Eagles game dressed as Santa Claus. [9] A book titled A Snowball's Chance: Philly Fires Back Against The National Media, which defended the Eagles fans' behavior in the incident, was published in 2012. [7]
The Dec. 27 Standard-Speaker (of Hazleton, Pennsylvania) noted: “Eagles fans took out their season-long frustrations on Santa Claus a week ago Sunday when they fired snowballs at the old gent at ...
The Eagles had planned a Christmas pageant for halftime of the December 15 game, but the condition of the field was too poor. Instead, the team asked a fan dressed as Santa Claus to run onto the field to celebrate with a group of cheerleaders. The fans, in no mood to celebrate, loudly booed and threw snowballs at "Santa Claus." [2]
The actor voiced a snowball in a video produced by the Eagles, in which he talked to Santa Claus in an attempt to make amends for an incident in December 1968 when Eagles fans threw snowballs at ...
"After the game, I was walking into the locker room, and they're throwing snowballs," Verse told The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1968, when a man dressed as Santa Claus walked out onto the field.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. ... when fans pelted a Santa Claus with snowballs during a halftime Christmas ...
Olivo continued to attend Eagles games and even made a return as Santa Claus four decades later, at the Eagles' December 27, 2009, game against the Denver Broncos at Lincoln Financial Field. [44] This time, Olivo was not targeted by snowballs. Frank Olivo died in 2015 at age 66.
There will be no White Christmas in Bucks County, but conditions do look good for Santa Claus to navigate his herd of reindeer on Christmas Eve, and for the pivotal Philadelphia Eagles - New York ...