Any other Eagles fans that have no connection to Philly???

I grew up outside of Youngstown, OH… pretty much equal distance to Cleveland and Pittsburgh so my hometown is pretty split with Browns and Steelers fans. Admittedly, I’m a Guardians, Cavs and Buckeyes fans but for the NFL my heart has always been with the Eagles.

My mom and sisters are Browns fans and my dad refereed college football so being neutral on the field, he never really had a team. And I have a ton of cousins that are Steelers fans. My wife is a Browns fan and I refuse to raise our 1-year old son as one so he already has a ton of Birds gear.

In about the 3rd grade, I just gravitated to those Buddy Ryan Eagles teams and have been a diehard ever since. A lot of it had to do with the Ultimate Weapon, Randall Cunningham but those 80s teams had some connections to my hometown: Jaws and K Paul McFadden went to YSU and S Mike Zordich grew up in Youngstown and went to Chaney HS. But those Buddy Eagles captivated me and I can pretty much still name the whole team.

So enough being long winded… question: are there any other people like me out there that are die-hard Birds fans but have no real connection to Philly?

UPDATE: Absolutely love all the responses and trying to keep up and read all of them!

I guess one thing I didn’t mention is while I have no personal connection to Philly, I have been to games at the Linc. Used to live in Baltimore for 9 years (09-18) so caught at least a game/year and would go see them in Landover and they only played in Baltimore once (I think) while I lived there and hit that one too. Biggest regret is never getting to The Vet.

And for fun… Favorite cheesesteak places are Jim’s, Dalessandro’s or John’s Roast Pork.