The entire sports world knows that among sports fans Philadelphians are noted for the harsh treatment of their atheletes. They boo everything. The booed Wilt Chamberlain, they booed Dr. J. They boo the Phillies, the Eagles , and all other teams for the smallest misstep. There is the famous day when eagle fans en masse pelted Santa Claus with snowballs. In the mid 60s Phillies' infielder Richie Allen, a talented, proud, sensitive, and intelligent African-American in the racially charged 1960s, combined with the notoriously intolerant Philadelphia fans to create the incident captured in the above photograph. See Letters in the dirt.
       During the American revolution the city of brotherly love, from the greek Phileo-to love + adelphos-brother, was the beacon of freedom throughout the world. Ben Franklin lived and worked here. The Declaration of Independence (see also Thomas Jefferson's account of the Declaration of Independence) and the Constitution were created here. In modern times Philadelphia has become the butt of jokes, the most notable of which is the would-be epitaph of W. C. Fields; 'On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.'