Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro will be Super Bowl Lix on Sunday to see his beloved Eagles faced with Chiefs Kansas City in Nowy Orlean.
Escaping his ordinary sports radio personality “Josh from Juniata”, Shapiro called up to 97.5 Fanatic’s Mike Missanelli on Thursday to talk about the third journey of birds to Super Bowl for seven years and the role of Shapiro as “cheerleader cheerleader” on Sunday.
“I like our chances, old, really, really. I feel really good – Shapiro said.
The Democratic Governor said that he would “with some bird fans” to support the Eagles in SuperDome, probably participating in a joint sports superstation, putting on the same clothes he won during the teams in the last few weeks.
His journey will be without any costs for Pennsylvania taxpayers, but he is financed by Donor anonymous from the non-profit organization from Harrisburg, which paid over $ 12,000 for Shapiro for participating in sporting events in 2023.
Team Pa Foundation Fund, called Pennsylvania Growth Partnership, paid for Shapiro tickets for sporting events. The fund accepts donations from undisclosed donors for the promotion of the governor at the national and international stage, Spotlight Pa reported in May 2024
At that time, Shapiro Manuel Bonder spokesman said that the teams usually invited Shapiro to matches, and the PA team paid for the governor for participating in six sports events: 2023 Super Bowl in Arizona and matches played by Harrisburg Senators, Penn State football team, The Parn Football , The football team, The Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Union.
Super Bowl will be an opportunity for the governor, because the community is preparing for the NFL Draft, which will take place in Pittsburgh in 2026. On Sunday, Shapiro will meet and cooperate with officials in NFL and other partners of business and economic development to continue planning the project, said Bonder on Thursday.
During the Missanelli Shapiro program, he remembered that “such pain in the ass” to the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the last Super Bowl, in which the governor took the governor, spreading Pittsburgh as the place of NFL draft 2026. The work of the governor turned out to be successful, and when the event appears in the west Pennsylvania next year, he will bring “hundreds of millions of dollars of economic development,” said Shapiro.
He kept a question from Missanella about whether he would be in the Goodell apartment on Sunday.
Shapiro expressed excitement with other sporting projects and fans that take place in Philadelphia, including Nowe Sixers and Flyers Arena in Southern Philly (although he said that he is not a fan of ownership of the owner of Sixers Josh Harris in Washington).
“I was clear all the time the community of nations will not finance the arena at the Street Market,” said Shapiro. “The community is interested in this idea of ​​what these teams want to build in the stadium district.”
He said that the openness of the owner of the Eagles, Jeffrey Lurie to a hidden roof at a new stadium for birds, could be part of a wider vision of improving southern Philly and the stadium district.
“I want fans to go there, eat, drink and spend time,” said Shapiro. “I want fans to have a place to live. I really think we can do something unusual in southern Philly. “
Shapiro also expected that he was running friendly plants with two counterparts in the Kansas City area, the government of the Republican Missouri Mike Kehoe and Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
The governor who was born in Kansas City, but grew up in Montgomery, made similar plants two years ago, when the bosses and eagles leveled in the Super Bowl lvia. He had to fly Chiefs’s flag in his office in Pennsylvania Kapitol after losing the plant with the former Governor of Missouri Mike Parson.
Philadelphia means Shapiro when he joined the mayor of Cherlle L. Parker in the city’s response to a deadly air disaster in the north -eastern Philadelphia last Friday. Parker said during a press conference on Thursday that she would watch a super bowl from home, citing ongoing work in the city, including rehabilitation efforts after an accident.
“We will watch the Super Bowl together on Sunday evening, here in Philadelphia, and we want everyone to have fun when we do it,” she said.
Personnel writer Nick Vadala contributed to this article.
