Tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Eagles will take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and the Eagles have a key man repping them – WWE superstar Samoa Joe.
Every year it’s cool to see which WWE superstars are predicting or supporting which teams at the Super Bowl. In 2017, AJ Styles made it clear he was behind the Atlanta Falcons as a Georgia native, whereas Kofi Kingston and Alexa Bliss were very much in favor of the New England Patriots.
It’s no surprise that the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl this year, but the Philadelphia Eagles have plenty of support from WWE superstars, too. One of them? The Destroyer himself, former two-time NXT Champion Samoa Joe.
He posted the following photo to Twitter below of him in what appears to be a Randall Cunningham, the legendary quarterback and Eagles Hall of Famer, jacket with the hashtag #FlyEaglesFly.
#FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/607z2SpPGy
— Samoa Joe (@SamoaJoe) February 4, 2018
Behind MVP quarterback Tom Brady, the Patriots are unsurprisingly the favorites to win the Super Bowl. But perception isn’t always reality, and it was the Eagles who had the far more impressive championship game performance, thoroughly dismantling a very good Minnesota Vikings team. Nick Foles made one of the best defenses in the league look helpless, and he could very well do the same to a Patriots defense that initially struggled to contain Jacksonville Jaguars signal-caller Blake Bortles in the first half of their narrow AFC Championship Game victory.
As Ring of Honor commentator Ian Riccaboni pointed out on Twitter, the Eagles might have the more impressive group of iconic fans. Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, Tony Danza, Kevin Hart, and Rocky are among those who have repped the Eagles in the past.
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You can add Samoa Joe to that list, and the man who has choked out Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, and Brock Lesnar is undoubtedly the most intimidating of those men. And yes, that includes Sylvester Stallone.