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How The Eagles Sneaked A Little Protest Into The Super Bowl

The incarcerated Philly rapper Meek Mill wrote the Eagles rallying song and has become a poster child for what many see as a draconian probation system.

When the Eagles clinched their first-ever Super Bowl victory on Sunday — that will always feel — my friends and I joined the joyful, inebriated throngs in a spontaneous pilgrimage to Philadelphia's City Hall. And at Thursday's championship parade, you'd likely hear many of the same full-throated chants that we heard right after the win. The , obviously. Some colorful suggestions for what the vanquished Tom Brady also obviously. And then another, more charged exhortation:

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