{"id":2743,"date":"2025-10-15T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2743\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:20:11","slug":"an-eagles-fan-called-out-the-upper-darby-mayor-for-being-a-cowboys-fan-at-a-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2743\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eagles fan called out the Upper Darby mayor for being a Cowboys fan at a council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">As much as <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/howie-roseman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howie Roseman<\/a> is <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/eagles\/eagles-howie-roseman-signing-dynasty-sports-20250224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/eagles\/eagles-howie-roseman-signing-dynasty-sports-20250224.html\">revered in Philadelphia<\/a>, Cowboys owner and president Jerry Jones is the other side of the coin \u2014 hated and mocked in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">So, at an <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/upper-darby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Upper Darby<\/a> Township council meeting on Wednesday, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2024\/12\/11\/at-a-lengthy-upper-darby-council-meeting-the-sausage-is-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2024\/12\/11\/at-a-lengthy-upper-darby-council-meeting-the-sausage-is-made\/\">community activist and council regular<\/a> Richard Blye cut as deep as possible speaking about mayor Ed Brown during part of his attempt to get abandoned cars removed from his district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cThis is what happens, guys \u2014 residents of Upper Darby Township \u2014 when you elect a Cowboys fan to your government,\u201c Blye said at the meeting while wearing an Eagles <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/super-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a> shirt. \u201dTwenty-nine years of losing for this team. What do you expect from the leadership?<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cThis is a Cowboys fan. This guy follows the Cowboys \u2026 You see what type of leadership they have and that\u2019s what you put your trust in? A Cowboys fan. Sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Brown\u2019s 2023 opponents have to be kicking themselves that they missed that detail in their opposition research. Brown is a 28-year resident of Upper Darby Township and served in several positions in the Upper Darby school district, including on the school board, before running for mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Blye declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As much as Howie Roseman is revered in Philadelphia, Cowboys owner and president Jerry Jones is the other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2413,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-eagles-fan-council-upper-darby-mayor-cowboys","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}