Here’s the second installment of Philadelphia Eagles- based posts, inspired by their being in the Super Bowl this weekend. Part 1 can be found here.

I had dream. Not in the noble way of MLK, but in the less-important-but-fun-anyway way of a football fan.

The Eagles have a very popular fight song, which most fans know. It gets played in the stadium after every touchdown, and is sung by Philly fans whenever the spirits moves- including any football related event, other sporting events, non-sporting events, social gatherings, occasionally at church, and sometimes at weddings (The simpler E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES cheer is always an acceptable substitution).

Anyway back to the dream…..

I thought it would be fun to go to an Eagles game with an Eagle-green trumpet, and entertain/hype-up the tailgaters by playing the Eagle fight song. Thanks to the magic of Temu and a little Christmas gift money I had stashed away, I was able to get the trumpet this past summer for a pretty low price.

Any musician reading this now is probably thinking about how stupid I am for buying any instrument from Temu for any reason; everybody knows why those instruments are so cheap! But not to worry- the only thing I wanted to do with this horn was to go to the game and play the fight song for the tailgaters. I wasn’t trying to play Flight of The Bumblebee.

Anyway- to make a long story a bit shorter….the trumpet sucked! It was even worse than expected and I had to take it to my repair guy twice just to get the first valve to function sort of properly. I know…it’s a Temu horn- what did I expect?

The trumpet’s only purpose was to play the Eagle’s fight song, but it wasn’t even good enough to do that over the long term. So, I had to change the plan a little bit and make this tailgate trumpet thing a once and done experience.

Knowing the value of the green Temu trumpet, the distance we’d have to park away from the stadium, the distance we would be walking around “tailgate city”, and the time it would take to return the trumpet back to the car before walking all the way back across the parking lots again to enter the stadium for the game- I decided to end the green trumpet experiment in a way that eerily foreshadowed the outcome of the game we were about to see. (Spoiler Alert: The Eagles blew a lead in the final minute and lost).

Here’s the video of the Green Tailgate Trumpet:

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