{"id":28110,"date":"2025-11-07T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:20:07","slug":"as-eagles-prepare-for-packers-south-phillys-lombardis-prime-meats-leans-into-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28110\/","title":{"rendered":"As Eagles prepare for Packers, South Philly&#8217;s Lombardi&#8217;s Prime Meats leans into name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Eagles are preparing for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-vs-packers-nick-sirianni-trades\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Week 10 matchup<\/a>\u00a0on the road against the Green Bay Packers, one South Philly meat business is leaning into its name. And no, don&#8217;t call them Packers fans.<\/p>\n<p>Right up the street from Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia, on Packer Avenue, was once home to Vince Lombardi, but not the legendary Green Bay head coach.<\/p>\n<p>A local meatpacker named Vince Lombardi started Lombardi Prime Meats, which Robert Passio now owns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely a different Vince Lombardi,&#8221; Passio said. &#8220;He was a coach, you could say, just not football, more in the meat business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the Eagles&#8217; hope of winning back-to-back Lombardi Trophies, this South Philly meat business leans into their name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, we made some green sausage, Eagles green sausage. That&#8217;s always fun,&#8221; Passio said. &#8220;We had the life-size Lombardi Trophy made out of foil out here for a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Game days are for the Birds \u2014 and Lombardi&#8217;s, which feels the most support when the Eagles are playing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Eagles, when they do well and they&#8217;re winning, everybody loves each other,&#8221; Passio said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter who we are. Everybody&#8217;s excited, and everybody&#8217;s pumped up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though their name is closely related to the Packers, there are no cheeseheads here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Eagles are preparing for their Week 10 matchup\u00a0on the road against the Green Bay Packers, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8625,4849,28,69,4538,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-28110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lincoln-financial-field","tag-national-football-league","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110","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=28110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}