Super Bowl Sunday is not the time for your cable and internet to go out. Especially if you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
In the hours ahead of Super Bowl 57, seemingly many citizens of Philadelphia were without cable and internet as an outage reportedly hit Comcast on Sunday afternoon. As Jalen Hurts and the rest of the Eagles were entering the building, a sizable portion of Philadelphia was scrambling to figure out why they couldn’t watch the proceedings on their televisions.
The area impacted — Fishtown and its surrounding areas — reportedly were getting estimates that cable and internet services might not get restored until 6 p.m. ET, with those times seemingly getting pushed back.
Holy crap. Half of Philadelphia is currently experiencing a cable and Internet outage and Comcast/Xfinity are now saying it may not be back up until 6pm #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/juKemkuvYp
— Dan (from Steely Dan)🧢 (@orencamera) February 12, 2023
Given how ravenous the Philadelphia fanbase is at the best of times, goodness only knows how Eagles fans without cable were dealing with the difficulties. Talk about a worst case nightmare scenario for Eagles fans ahead of the biggest football game of the year.