A Philadelphia Eagles fan discovered an abandoned jacket after the team’s Super Bowl victory parade this month — and it contained a surprise message.
Amy Rannabargar, a La Salle University graduate student, was celebrating the Eagles’ big win at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Feb. 14, when she stumbled upon a green Eagles Starter jacket that she initially assumed another fan had accidentally left behind, she told NBC affiliate WACU.
As Rannabargar explained, she spotted the article of clothing hanging on a light post as she was leaving the event, which took place less than a week after the Eagles secured their Super Bowl LIX victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 9. “I thought, ‘Oh no, somebody left their jacket,’ ” Rannabargar told the outlet. “But then I saw something was attached to it.”
That “something,” which was taped to the inside of the green jacket, was a note from another Eagles fan.
“If found, do not return. This jacket belongs to you!” read the message, which has since gone viral after Rannabargar shared it on social media. “I found this jacket on the night of the Super Bowl in 2018, and it only felt right to release back into the city when the Eagles won again. Enjoy the jacket. I hope you get the opportunity to release back into the world with another SB win soon. Go Birds.”
“I cannot wait to pass this along on the next Super Bowl win 🦅💚🏆✨,” the jacket’s new owner wrote in a Facebook caption.
After her Facebook post picked up some traction in Philadelphia, Rannabargar told WACU that the “cool,” pay-it-forward moment reminded her of being a Grateful Dead fan — a community she says sometimes distributes free tickets to other fans.
“I’m a Deadhead and we do this thing called ‘miracle tickets’ where people leave stuff and so that immediately went through my head,” Rannabargar explained. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is kind of like an Eagles version of that.’ ”
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Rannabargar’s Facebook post has since earned more than 16,000 likes from fellow Philly fans on a public “Philadelphia Eagles Fan Group” page — something she “did not expect to spread the way that it did.”
While the jacket’s newest owner is actually a “Dallas-raised girl who moved to Philadelphia,” as she told ABC affiliate WPVI, she still considers herself a “die-hard Eagles fan.” And even though her friends have been encouraging her to keep the jacket for herself, she knows what she has to do.
This month’s big game marked the Eagles’ second Super Bowl victory in franchise history, following the team’s 2018 win over the New England Patriots. And Rannabargar is ready to pay the good deed forward if it happens again, hopefully as soon as “next Super Bowl” if quarterback Jalen Hurts and company clinch a repeat victory in 2026.
She is even ready to write her own note and is on the lookout for its next location, she told WACU. “Now that I feel like people would be on the hunt for it, I’m like, ‘OK, I got to find a good hiding spot for it,’ ” she said.
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