Nevertheless, they persisted: Eagles fans are climbing the Crisco-covered poles in Philadelphia

As we told you earlier, city workers in Philadelphia coated light poles with Crisco in an attempt to keep fans at ground level after Sunday’s NFC Championship win against the Minnesota Vikings.

The attempt has failed.

But before we get to photos and videos of Philly fans climbing greased-up poles, check out this dude face-planting into a poll in a subway station:

https://twitter.com/ParkerHageman/status/955279473947086848

Ouch!

And, now to the Crisco-covered fans:

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/955281440622686209

https://twitter.com/12upSport/status/955281871323189248

https://twitter.com/errrica/status/955278688970473472

The #Crisco can’t hold us! #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/UyzE7DPPy9

— Sarah △⃒⃘ (@lumpyspacederp) January 22, 2018

Eagles fan 1 Crisco 0 (timfreakinlaskey/IG) pic.twitter.com/4OteucAIav

— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) January 22, 2018

Broad and Walnut. #eagles #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/uG1K9OXQj3

— Julia Terruso (@JuliaTerruso) January 22, 2018

thought they were joking about the crisco thing but i was very wrong #FlyEaglesFly ?? pic.twitter.com/qusRZjmQAJ

— amirah? (@amirahmm) January 22, 2018

broad street pic.twitter.com/7kxbYiQmTE

— tonyp (@groovyytonyy) January 22, 2018

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