The Empire State Building lit up the night in Green and White on Sunday evening in honor of the Philadelphia Eagles win over the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC Championship title:
Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory. pic.twitter.com/RNiwbCIkt7
— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 29, 2023
This show of support for a rival team, did not, of course, go over well with New York fans:
The face of every NY Giants fan looking at the Empire State Building tonight. pic.twitter.com/66OgdtE3Ru
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) January 30, 2023
— Teton Saltes (@Beast__Mobile) January 30, 2023
Every New Yorker seeing this pic.twitter.com/AjxyvBxGkx
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) January 30, 2023
King Kong should have destroyed you
— Astrid Martinez (@astridtv1) January 30, 2023
“King Kong should have destroyed you”. Harsh, but hysterical.
Even other buildings chimed in:
Chicago, we promise to never publicly embarrass you like this. https://t.co/lgIp6WcKbo
— 360 CHICAGO (@360chicago) January 30, 2023
How are we going to explain this to all of the other buildings. They looked up to you. https://t.co/vAX534e9PI
— NYC Buildings (@NYC_Buildings) January 30, 2023
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Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services had a suggestion:
Join us. #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/kg9JVrWWwp
— Pennsylvania Department of General Services (@PAGenServices) January 30, 2023
Well played!
NYC Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the situation by New York’s ABC 7:
For Giants fans, it felt like salt in the wounds after division rival Philly trounced New York in the playoffs just last week. Now, Mayor Adams is even weighing in — calling it ‘unacceptable.’
“Unfortunately someone did not get the memo at the Empire State Building,” Adams said, “That got away from us the way the Eagles game got away from us with the Giants.”
More from the article:
As for the lighting approval process – the Empire State Building also makes clear that it is ‘privately owned, has its own selection review process…and has sole discretion over what : are and are not approved.” It also says it is ‘under no obligation to provide specific feedback regarding status, merit and/or denial.”
Well, doesn’t sound like there’s a whole lot anyone can do about that!
Some people did question whether the account was real:
Is this real??? I hope this is a fake account
— Ian Begley (@IanBegley) January 30, 2023
A quick look at the official website for the Empire State Building confirms that the lights in question were indeed on the schedule:
On that note, they did tweet out the following in honor of the Kansas City Chiefs later in the evening:
That hurt us more than it hurt you.
We’re now lit for the @chiefs in honor of their AFC Championship Win pic.twitter.com/t0tExEievk
— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 30, 2023
As for the New York Giants? They had this to say:
I'm just here for the comments 🤔 https://t.co/3S80LSKTIL
— New York Giants (@Giants) January 30, 2023
So are we, Giants. So are we.
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