The Eagles fan hit with fame after hitting the pole gets some glory
The Eagles fan hit with fame after hitting the pole gets some glory
The moment in the spotlight has not yet ended for a Philadelphia Eagles fan who became famous as a viral video star after encountering a subway pillar earlier this year.
Jigar Desai is now the subject of an NFL digital short film, shot before the Eagles game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on October 28. In the short, he is surprised with the tickets for him, his wife and two children who attended the game in England.
"From 'matter the pillars' to 'Mind the Gap' ... London, here we go!" Desai said on Friday.
In January, Desai, wearing a Brian Dawkins T-shirt, was trying to gather subway passengers for the NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. It was filmed running along the train on the platform, and suddenly hit a post and crashed into the train.
The video of his fan's passengers failed on social networks, which caused everything from Philadelphia's sporting pride to general mockery.
"At the end of it all, if you're going to have a knuckle moment captured in the camera from two angles, you'd better have results," said Desai, who works as a consultant in life sciences and health care company.
With the Eagles winning the first. Super Bowl and Dawkins was inducted into the Pro Soccer Hall of Fame, "I could not have scheduled a better ending," he said.
People in the NFL contacted him in the spring about the video project and last weekend they went to his house in the suburbs of Philadelphia to film, he said.
"The piece focused on him and his love for the Eagles," said Brenna Webb, spokesperson for NFL Media, of the short film. The eight-minute video will be released on the NFL's social and digital media platforms next week, he said.
The filmmakers said they told him they wanted to see the pillar and that they took the subway to the scene of the injury, the Ellsworth-Federal stop on the Broad Street subway line. It was then that Desai said he noticed that the Eagles cheerleaders, Swoop the mascot and a string band of the Mummers gathered around the pole for a celebration. Swoop presented him and his family with tickets to London.
"It was a total surprise and, as a father, it was great to be there with my children." My youngest son always says, "So you hit a stick, so what?", He said.
Hitting the post meant more than you think for Desai, 43 years old. Now a new tradition is born. Two weeks later, an hour before the Super Bowl game between the Eagles and the Patriots, Desai had what he called a "ceremonial" but sure "I find a post at home to keep the mojo positive." He's committed to doing that for every future Eagles playoff game.
And what do you want people to take away from the big 2018 pole collision?
"Platform 9 ¾ is not at Ellsworth station and I'm starting to think that this whole Harry Potter thing is fiction," he jokes. "It has been a wild trip and long 15 minutes and I have enjoyed every minute".
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