ESPN aired a segment on SportsCenter last night, Fans Forever, which detailed the increasingly popular habit of people who are pre-arranging their post-mortem plans in tribute to their favorite sports team.

     

  While Major League Baseball has urns and caskets, which are available and shown in Clip Two below, the lede was a German soccer club (HSV) who has created a cemetery for its fans next door to its stadium. There are similar concepts in Spain and England.

     

     Suddenly, it hit Philly EDGE like Brian Dawkins does a tight end on a crossing pattern: Why hasn’t someone proposed a cemetery near the Linc (or just off the site of The Vet or somewhere in the city) just for Eagles fans???

      (Of course, we mean dead Eagles fans – Ed.)

    

    Honestly, this is the best idea since moist towelettes feeding mayonnaise to tuna fish  text messaging.

    See the segments below.

 

Part I