The Josh Innes Show - Philly Fan Dies Celebrating Win

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

An 18 year old Temple student died while celebrating the Eagles win over the Commanders. How did he die? He fell off a light pole. It's one thing when some middle aged dude with nothing else going on dies doing something team related and stupid. It hits different when it's a dude at the dawn of his adult life. What dumb shit did you do when you were 18? Hey, Jason Kelce has spoken about who he is rooting for in the Super Bowl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I mean, the whole page looks exactly like the USA Today page, and there's a subscription. So maybe this is like some newspaper in like one of the, okay, the Bucks County Courier Times. Does that make sense? Phillyburbs.com is the website I'm looking at. But I finally saw the headline. And honestly, I didn't mean to find this headline, but I'll talk about it because I did. I actually just Googled Eagles fan

because I was looking for more details on the Eagles dude, the kid that fell off the light pole and died, the kid from Temple, which is fascinating to me because, again, like, kid goes to Temple, went to Temple. You would think someone at Temple would be smart enough to not climb up a goddamn light pole, but what do I know, right? And I've seen people talking about this this and like one guy went off on me on Twitter because I asked a question which is what would be the most Eagles fan way to die and I would argue that one of the most Eagles fan ways to die would be to fall off of a light pole

during an Eagles celebration like that would be like Philly fan ultimate like how what is the most Philly fan way to go a dude falling off a light pole is a pretty philly fan way to go but not just celebrate i mean celebrating a conference championship not even the super bowl look and to be fair i feel bad like like you don't root for people to die especially 18 year old dudes with their whole lives in front of them but you wonder what the fuck is going through someone's mind when they're like, you know what? I'm a smart kid. I'm at Temple.

He's a gymnast apparently. And he decides, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to climb a light pole and celebrate. Now part of that is because we've created this absurd universe where like it's just expected that if your team wins, you can go out and be Neanderthals. I will say this. When I was in Houston and the Astros won the World Series in 2017, me, Jilly, and Luther were over at Little Woodrow's in Midtown, which is a couple blocks from our house, walking distance. I miss that whole setup so goddamn much, that house, everything. I love it. The yard could have been a little bit bigger, especially now that I like to get out

there and do a little smoking of the meat and whatnot and I have a bigger dog but like it was a great place to be despite the fact someone got murdered like 50 yards from our house a doctor or something got off a train and got stabbed to death but other than that it was a solid place to live and other than the fact that my vehicle got broken into and my computer got stolen that said it was my fault I shouldn't have left my backpack in the truck anyway, so I deserved it. But any hoodles, when they won, there was no absurdity. There was no burning shit. There was no setting shit on fire. Really, they celebrated the World Series and people went home. Now, I wasn't downtown for that and that game was on the road, so maybe it would have been different had the World Series been won at home and things would have gone nuts in the streets. But it was during the week.

I think that was a Wednesday. Did they win that on a Wednesday? Wednesday or Thursday? I forgot what day of the week it was, but it was a weekday. Astros win the World Series. Astros fans at the bar celebrate and have a good time. But there's no rioting in the streets. There's no shit being set on fire.

There's no people climbing light poles and shit. It was just people had a good time and went home. Hell, I've talked about how dull the World Series parade was. It was just kind of there and then it was over and people fucking went back to work. The rally was even worse. The rally was one of the dullest championship rallies ever. Just a bunch of fucking politicians and a bunch of dudes who didn't speak English. It just wasn't a very interesting time for anybody like that houston did a shitty job of celebrating

but there's got to be a middle ground between like billions of people in the streets climbing light poles dancing on fucking cop cars twerking on other people's cars setting shit on fire and oh it's cool that we won time to go home there's got to be some sort of middle ground there but in philly there is no middle ground it is just flat out let's fuck shit up it's like anticipated that they're gonna fuck shit up to the point that people like the mayor the poor dyslexic mayor lady has to get up there and be like hey guys uh we're not gonna grease the poles because we trust people which i'm sure they still grease the fucking poles because these people are wackos and they're going to climb the fucking poles.

But it's just so weird. This kind of goes to that topic and that discussion we had a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about fans rushing the court or throwing shit onto the field at games. And you're like, what gives you the right to do that? What makes you think that you are ordained by God because you buy a ticket? What makes you think because you're a fan, you have the right to just be a total asshole and make the game about yourself and storm the field and do everything else, right? Like,

why do you feel you are entitled to that? Why does it feel like fans now feel like they can storm the field after every win? Not just, oh, we upset the number one team in the country, but hey, we beat the number 24 team that's got four losses. Let's storm the field just to say we did it. People are doing that too often. It's lost its appeal. It's not fun anymore. It's not cute anymore. And that's the way people operate. But in Philly, when it comes to winning championships, it's just understood that people are going to take to the streets and do really dumb shit. And one of those dumb things, other than eating shit like that dude did that one time, is climbing the poles.

And why it is such a tradition, why people do this, I don't know. They're fucking stupid. They're fucking hammered. They're dopes, whatever. But as it relates to this kid that climbed the pole and fell to his death, like it's one thing to imagine, a McDougal doing this.

You know, a guy, like, in his mid-40s, has really nothing going on in his life, likes to get really tanked on the yinglings, right? And watch the birds. That's the life. Not even yingling. Yingling might be too expensive for him. Like, he's like, I got a fridge full of fucking Bud Heavies.

He's like, I got a rack of Bud Heavies in in the fridge and I'm going to watch the birds. I would never drink that bud light shit. Cause I ain't gay. And like, let's go. Like, this is what he lives for. His wife is not all that appealing. His kids hate him. Like I can see why when the birds went at all, he'd go out and climb a pole and do whatever. Right? Like I get that. This is what he's lived for. What I struggle to understand is why an 18-year-old dude who's in college, life in front of him, seemingly smart because he goes to fucking Temple, he's a gymnast, why he's like,

you know what I'm gonna do? Climb a fucking pole. This sounds like a plan. This seems like a good use of my abilities. I'm gonna climb a pole. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, honestly. I think it probably does. I think dudes fall more frequently, but McDougal is so immune to pain and his blood is so filled with hoagie and fucking bud heavy that he's just like, I don't feel anything. I'm immune. I can't die. I am eternal. I'm like Jason

or Freddy. I just cannot be taken out. But you see these things and you're like, like, it's sad. Like this guy was ripping me. He's like, I would have expected better from you. Give me a hashtag. Do better. Do better. I'm like, no, who should have done better is the dumb kid that went up on the damn pole who had his whole life in front of him. Now the argument would be, Josh, well, what you did dumb shit when you were 18. Of course we all did. I never climbed a fucking pole in the middle of downtown Philadelphia because my team won a championship in fact I don't remember ever doing anything remotely stupid when my teams have won championships

even when I was 18 and I've done some dumb shit in my day I ran over my own fucking foot on a four-wheeler and that's why my right foot is now smaller than my left foot right like I broke the growth plate of my ankle because when I was a kid I rode a four-wheeler and that's why my right foot is now smaller than my left foot, right? Like I broke the growth plate of my ankle because when I was a kid, I rode a four-wheeler. I shouldn't have done it and somehow got my foot stuck under it. I've done dumb shit and I've got myself into trouble before. Now, to be fair, I was kind of a square as a kid. Like I was always worried about upsetting my dad. So I never wanted to get into too much trouble because my dad would always give me the, Josh, don't embarrass me, Josh. Don't do anything that's going to embarrass me. Okay. So I was always worried about my dad more than myself. So I didn't do a bunch of dumb shit, but I had done dumb shit and

I've made mistakes and I got blitzed on my senior trip and threw up bile for the fucking first time in my life in Panama city. And I've done some dumb shit and I've made some mistakes and I've said dumb shit on the radio, even as an adult. And, look, I'm not judging you for doing dumb shit, but there are levels of dumb shit. There is the, well, I got out and I said something stupid or I was underage and I got a little tanked. There's levels of dumb shit. Then there's climb the fucking light poles in Philadelphia

after winning a championship and then falling to your death. I don't consider this a natural selection thing, right? Like, like some people say, well, natural selection. And sometimes that's the case. I just struggled to understand how someone who's at temple could be that dumb to put themselves in that spot. But sports does that to people. There was a time when we were in Houston and there was a story about a guy. And I think it was in New York at a Mets game. Tried to slide down the escalator and like fell to his death.

And we were making fun of it. Because this is an adult-ass, drunk-ass dude doing this. And my boss called and said, you got to stop. You got to stop talking. I'm like, dude's a fucking moron. This is the kind of guy you should mock because it should show people that, hey, maybe don't do this fucking shit. But whatever. So it's sad.

I mean, it is sad. Like, it's sad when anybody dies. But when, like, middle-aged guy with nothing to live for who hates his wife and his kids hate him and the birds are all he has, you're kind of like, eh, okay, whatever. Guy had his chance in life and fucked it up. When there's a dude who's 18 and at Temple and his life's in front of him and you're like, oh, that kid died. That sucks. That sucks far more and it is sadder. So to that degree, I agree with the person who tweeted me and was like, this is sad because it is sad. But the do better thing, like coming at me saying do better.

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Order now. Alcohol and select markets. See app for details. So I did tweet. This is what the guy responded to was the tweet that I sent out. That was, what is the most Philly fan way to die? That was the question. What is the most Philly fan way to die? And let me see if I can pull this up here for everybody so I can read this to you. It's like it disappeared. There it is.

Question for Philly fans. What is the most Philly fan way to die? And I will read some of these. Jumping off the Walt Whitman Bridge? Possibly, but why did they jump off the Walt Whitman Bridge? Is it because they lost a game? Is it because the Cowboys finally won another Super Bowl? Is it that they found out that their son is a Cowboys fan? These are important things. J.D. Shea says, oh yeah, falling off the pole is at the top of the

list. Like, yeah, during a Super Bowl celebration, falling off the pole is certainly up there. Rob here says, getting run over by a double-decker bus at a parade. That could be it. Well, what about, didn't some people die by getting hit by the duck boats? I'd say getting hit by duck boats is certainly a Philly way to go as well. Let's see here.

Cardiac arrest while eating a cheese steak. Solid one. Now, this is my favorite of them. You don't die. You live forever listening to rob ellis clones on wip and don't know any better that was some meta deep shit right there like you think like you're not dead but you are but you're not dead and you're just listening to rob ellis on wip having a heart attack after eating a cheese steak while heckling rival fans after a big win. That's not bad. Getting hit by a drunk crossing Patterson after an Eagles loss.

Almost happened to my dad in 2010. Parentheses, he was also drunk. So my dad almost got taken out by a drunk, but he too was drunk. It would have balanced out. Two negatives make a positive. Dying in a Wawa blackout drunk on Four Locos while doing the classic move, which is eating your hoagie over the garbage can.

One day before your favorite of the four teams win their championship, getting hit by a septib bus while eating a pretzel. Choking on a sausage, pepper, and onion in Lot M. Solid. Let's see. This person says, being forced to listen to whatever entertainment you provide.

Kind of like that old Woody Allen movie where he's placed in a bunker where he's forced to listen to a life insurance sales pitch ad infinitum. Yep, that would do it. This person also hates me. This guy likes to tell me how ugly I am, and if the person in this picture is him, he truly looks like he smells like a pack of cigarettes. This is a good one. Getting hit in the head with a stray Ben Simmons free throw.

Solid. This person says, you hoping for a job with BS like that? Thanks, Phillies fan 312. Thank you for letting me know that I am just awful. Bar fight outside of Frankfurt and Cotman defending Buddy Ryan. I like that one. Eating a D battery to the temple thrown by Jd drew i like that one as well and this person who was a fan of me while i was in philly so if he was a fan of me while i was in philly that means

he had no problem with any of the racial or anything else i ever did that was fine but this question is heartless and bullshit uh do better he says so there you go there was uh what is the most philly fan way to die and uh i think my favorite of those if i had to rank them and like look at a top three list of the top philly fan ways to die it would be the you don't die you live forever listening to rob ellis clones on wip that's a solid one uh the uh that uh the getting hit with a stray ben simmons free throw also strong headshot from a bryce harper bomb in the nlcs that would be a way to go like if you're gonna die just get taken out by a harper homer and uh the bar fight outside of frankford and cotman defending buddy ryan problem is who the fuck would fight you over Buddy Ryan? They all love him anyway. Now, how this all started was I went to this website. I didn't go to this website.

I just looked up Philly fan and phillyburbs.com. And for the first time, I have finally seen the headline, who is Jason Kelsey supporting in Super Bowl 59? Is he an Eagles fan or is he rooting for Travis? Well, his beloved birds, where he played for 13 seasons before retiring at the end of last season, will take the field, blah, blah, blah. I'm not playing, Jason quickly told his brother on their New Heights podcast, which dropped Wednesday morning. He said early in the episode, he would be figuring out who he'd be rooting for, but his brother wasn't convinced the decision wasn't already made the fact that these dweebs are stretching this out like oh boy who am i rooting for my rooting for my brother or the team i played for jesus christ i hate you people unbelievable travis said noting that jason kelsey was sporting eagles gear including a visor

and eagles green sweatshirt for the podcast. Oh boy, Jimmy, we got family drama, Jimmy. Let's see. Jason admitted he didn't watch the Eagles NFC championship win live because he was heading to Kansas City to watch Travis and the AFC championship game, getting updates on the plane from the pilots. I'm immensely happy for these guys. I got to watch a bunch of guys that are really really close to me and have been pivotal either coaches or players and teammates and staff i got to watch a lot of people win a monumentally huge game uh talking about the eagles uh let's see we know this is going to be the hardest expletive test that's for damn sure said travis kel Kelsey oh boy so uh there you go so at the end of it all there we don't really

have an answer on who he's going to root for so this Sophie's Choice will have to uh wait we'll have to wait until we get another answer on this we have to wait it's going to stretch out it's drama is what we're dealing with here drama I say so there you go uh all right uh more to come