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OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
11:49 PM – Tuesday, September 3, 2024
The Eagles NFL team has refuted all allegations that they have formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, highlighting a banner that has been appearing all across the city of Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, the posters can be seen at 16th and Spring Garden, 18th Street and JFK Boulevard, and 34th and Walnut Street. On Monday afternoon, the poster at 16th and Spring Garden streets—which is shown below—was taken down.
In the graphic illustration, Vice President Kamala Harris is seen clutching a football while donning a green helmet and a black Philadelphia Eagles shirt. The poster features the phrase “Kamala, official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles,” along with the website philadelphiaeagles.com/vote printed beneath it.
The link leads to an Eagles voting webpage that displays past spring voting deadlines for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey primary elections. It also offers polling place addresses, voting registration instructions, and useful resources for first-time voters.
The Philadelphia Eagles, however, dispute all claims that they are responsible for the ad, referring to the street art as “counterfeit political ads” that they are now beginning to take down.
According to CBS News Philadelphia, Matt Cassidy, who works for Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, said that the posters are being investigated as vandalism-related. Since the advertisements were put up unlawfully, the city is collaborating closely with the advertising firm, Intersection, to have them removed by Tuesday.
“A number of illegally placed posters of Kamala Harris and the Philadelphia Eagles were placed in bus shelters in Philadelphia. These were not digital ads placed by the Harris campaign, the Philadelphia EAGLES, SEPTA, The City of Philadelphia or the media agency, Intersection, that handles the transit ad space. This was not a digital breach; whomever is responsible for the illegally placed posters, broke into the securely covered shelter ad space and somehow put the posters in the space. Intersection has advised the City’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) that they plan to conduct a full inventory tomorrow of all bus shelters, and remove any illegally posters. The City has a process to review all bus shelter ads but this, again, was not a digital ad,” the city said in a statement to reporters.
Some users on social media claim that the banners are artwork created by leftist artist Winston Tseng. The artist purportedly responsible for the Eagles poster, Tseng, is now being questioned by CBS News Philadelphia to confirm that claim.
Tseng previously stated in an interview with Street Art News that he enjoys using advertisements and companies to highlight social issues in the hopes of drawing attention to them. The street artist has also previously parodied well-known brands to create works that address political themes.
However, soon after the posters went viral online, a confirmed rep of the team has insinuated that the ads are in fact real. Christian Molnar, the director of team relations for the Eagles, shot back at detractors this on Monday on X (Twitter), standing up for the posters. These claims have not yet been confirmed.
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