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| Sports |
| Philadelphia has a long and proud history of professional sports teams. Philadelphia sports fans have a reputation of being devoted to their teams in good times and bad. Of late Philadelphia teams have been performing well, but frequently missing championships by failing during the crucial stages. Some locals half-jokingly attribute this to the Curse of Billy Penn. |
- football: Philadelphia Eagles (National Football League)
- Baseball: Philadelphia Phillies (Major League Baseball)
- Basketball: Philadelphia 76ers (National Basketball Association)
- hockey: Philadelphia Flyers (National Hockey League), Philadelphia Phantoms (American Hockey League)
- Arena football: Philadelphia Soul (Arena Football League)
- Indoor lacrosse: Philadelphia Wings (National Lacrosse League)
- Indoor soccer: Philadelphia Kixx (Major Indoor Soccer League)
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| The Philadelphia Barrage (Major League Lacrosse, lacrosse) plays at the stadium of Villanova University, which is located in Villanova. |
| In the past Philadelphia has also been home to the Philadelphia Athletics (MLB, now the Oakland Athletics), and the Philadelphia Warriors (NBA, now the Golden State Warriors). The city's original NFL team was the Frankford Yellow Jackets (Frankford being a section of the city located in the northeastern part of town); the club disbanded during the 1931 football season, then re-emerged under the same ownership two years later as the Philadelphia Eagles. |
| The Eagles, Phillies, Flyers and 76ers have each recently had a new stadium built for them. The Eagles now play at Lincoln Financial Field (informally known as "The Linc"). The Phillies now play in Citizens Bank Park (a.k.a. "The Park," "The Zit," "The Vault" or in a Freudian error, "The Vet", from the Eagles' and Phillies' last home, Veterans Stadium). The Sixers and Flyers share the Wachovia Center with the Soul and Wings. The Wachovia Spectrum is now home to the Flyers' top farm team, the Phantoms and the Major League Indoor soccer team, the Kixx. |
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