Despite being such a huge fan of the team, Tornow has never been able to go to an Eagles game in-person due to her teaching schedule in Scotland. Thanks to the Eagles playing the Jaguars in London this season, that is set to change this Sunday.<\/p>\n
“All of the kids in the class were really invested in it. There was a lot of manifesting that we were going to get them in the end,” Tornow said. “And then finally, when the confirmation came through and I had the tickets, the whole class was cheering. … There was quite a school investment in me managing to get these tickets.”<\/p>\n
While Tornow still dreams to go to an Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles playing in the UK for the first time in eight years lined up perfectly for the die-hard, Scottish Eagles fan.<\/p>\n
“I find out that they were going to be playing in London. It worked perfectly because it’s right at the start of our midterm break,” Tornow said.<\/p>\n
“It’s nice that the cultures are being shared across the Atlantic and this kind of exchange of sports … being in London is just amazing. There are a huge number of Eagles fans over here and in the UK as a whole. So, to get a little taste of that in the UK is just going to be incredible.”<\/p>\n
While there are local club rivalries, Tornow and most of her students are fans of Celtic, a major soccer club in Glasgow. Tornow says there is a natural connection between the two teams. Not only is one of the Celtic players from Media, Pennsylvania (center back Auston Trusty), but the sports fandom between the two has made the students’ enthusiasm for the Eagles authentic.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of similarities between Eagles fans and I’d say Scottish fans as a whole,” Tornow said. “So passionate, a lot of similarities I think of humor and enthusiasm, holding the team accountable as well, but absolutely die-hard support all the way through. So, I think there’s so many crossovers between Glasgow and Philadelphia anyway, and then particularly with the fan base for the Eagles and Celtic, or any other Glasgow teams as well.”<\/p>\n
Because of Tornow’s enthusiasm for the Eagles and innovative teaching approach, there is a classroom full of students cheering on the Eagles all the way from Glasgow. Just expect a heavy Glaswegian accent when they get to the “fight, fight, fight” section of the fight song.<\/p>\n
“I think anytime that there’s an interest that you can tap into, it always works,” Tornow said. “The children are loving it. They’re learning loads. They’re using it for all of their different learning in class. So far, it’s going wonderfully.” – Written by Caroline Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being such a huge fan of the team, Tornow has never been able to go to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19777,78109,6108,36940,1418,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-302568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gameday","tag-go-birds","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-jeffrey-lurie","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302568","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=302568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}