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Following long Philly tradition, fans started streaming into Philadelphia streets even before the Eagles had officially won their trip to Super Bowl LII.

Large crowds gathered at the intersection of Frankford and Cottman -- where celebrations usually break out. 

Another group trooped up Broad Street, briefly closing the street.

Philadelphia police were ready. They had greased the light poles in Center City to prevent people from climbing them -- which they also did when the Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and similar crowds took to the streets.

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Hey Philly, maybe it’s time to forget Carson Wentz. Nick Foles might be good enough to win the Eagles their first Super Bowl.

Foles was on fire Sunday night against the stingiest scoring defense in the NFL. Philly made big play after big play on both sides of the ball in a stunning 38-7 rout of the Minnesota Vikings for the NFC championship.

Next up after their most-lopsided playoff victory: the Eagles’ first Super Bowl appearance since 2005, against the team that beat them then, AFC champion New England.

Foles replaced the injured Wentz in Game 13 and finished off a rise from last place to first in the NFC East. There were plenty of doubters entering the playoffs, but the former starter in Philadelphia (15-3) under another regime has been brilliant.

His best work might have come against Minnesota (14-4) and its vaunted defense that was torn apart in every manner. Foles threw for 352 yards and three touchdowns, showing poise, escapability and moxie in going 26 for 33.

In doing so — helped greatly by the Eagles’ domination on defense and a spectacular weaving 50-yard interception return TD by Patrick Robinson — Foles ruined the Vikings’ hopes of being the first team to play in a Super Bowl in its own stadium

Instead, the Eagles will seek their first Super Bowl crown in Minnesota on Feb. 4; their last championship came in 1960.

OVER AT HALFTIME: Minnesota made it look easy at the outset, driving 75 yards on nine plays, each of which gained yardage. The payoff was a 25-yard throw from Case Keenum to Kyle Rudolph well behind linebacker Najee Goode as Philadelphia’s defense looked confused on the play.

That didn’t happen again for Philly.

Defensive end Chris Long had a huge hand in Robinson’s 50-yard interception return. Long burst in from the left side and got his arm on Keenum to disrupt the throw for Adam Thielen. The ball went directly to Robinson, who sped down the left side, then made a sharp cut to the right and got a superb block from Ronald Darby to reach the end zone.

Inspired, Philly’s D forced a three-and-out, the Foles led the Eagles on a 12-play, 75-yard masterpiece of a drive. LeGarrette Blount showed all his power and escapability on an 11-yard surge up the middle for a 14-7 lead.

Turnovers, something Minnesota rarely committed with an NFC-low 14 during the season, hurt again and not only ended a solid drive, but set up more Philly points. On third down from the Eagles 15, Keenum was blindsided by rookie Derek Barnett, and the ball bounced directly to Long.

It was only the second strip-sack the Vikings have been victimized by all season.

A blown coverage — another rarity for Minnesota — on third-and-10 allowed Alshon Jeffery to get wide open for a 53-yard TD, and Philadelphia tacked on Elliott’s 38-yard field goal to make it 24-3 at halftime.

DANCING IN THE LINC: Fifty seconds into the final quarter, with the score 38-7, Eagles players on the sideline and waiting to kick off on the field were dancing up a storm and fans were chanting “We want Brady.”

They get Tom Brady and company in two weeks.

BACK TO THE BIG GAME: Long won the Super Bowl last year with the Patriots, as did Blount. Now they return on the other side.

QUICK DRIVE: Philadelphia got the ball with 29 seconds remaining in the first half at its 20. Foles hit passes of 11 yards to Jay Ajayi, 36 to Ertz and 13 to Ajayi before Elliott’s field goal to end the half.

THIRD DOWNS: Minnesota was the league’s best team defending third downs and was third in converting them. Yet Philadelphia went 10 for 14.

NEXT UP: Minnesota returns home to watch two other teams play at its stadium for the Lombardi Trophy.

With the entire stadium singing “Fly Eagles Fly” during the NFC trophy ceremony, Philadelphia can look forward to facing New England in Super Bowl 52 on Feb. 4

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Fans Take to Philly Streets After Eagles Win Trip to Super Bowl: Following long Philly tradition, fans started streaming into Philadelphia streets even before the Eagles had officially won their trip to Super Bowl LII. Large crowds gathered at the intersection of Frankford and Cottman -- where celebrations usually break out. Another group trooped up Broad Street, briefly closing the street. Philadelphia police were ready. They had greased the light poles in Center City to prevent people from climbing them -- which they also did when the Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and similar crowds took to the streets.

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WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY

Woman Stabbed to Death at North Philly Cemetery: A woman was stabbed to death at a North Philadelphia cemetery early Saturday evening. The 33-year-old woman was at the New Cathedral Cemetery on the 3700 block of North Front Street at 6:30 p.m. when she was attacked by an armed suspect. The suspect stabbed the woman three times in the left side and then took her to St. Christopher’s Hospital, according to police. The woman was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m. and the suspect was arrested. Police have not yet revealed the suspect's identity but say he or she knew the victim.

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YOUR FIRST ALERT FORECAST  

Monday could see a few scattered showers and temperatures near 60 degrees. Tuesday is expected to see rain and possibly thunderstorms for much of the day. But temperatures are expected to hit 60 degrees. The cold returns on Wednesday with temperatures returning to the 40s. Thursday could see temperatures back in the 30s. Sun is expected Friday and Saturday.  Get your full NBC10 First Alert forecast here.

Get Ready to Cry Watching Zach and Julie Ertz: Find yourself a love like Julie and Zach Ertz. While Zach Ertz was having his best season on the gridiron, Julie Ertz, who changed her name from Julie Johnston after their March nuptials, was having an amazing season on the pitch. After a 5-1 victory over Denmark on Sunday night in which Julie scored in the 19th minute, U.S. soccer captured this incredible moment. "Is he really going?" she said. Oh, he's going. The Eagles trounced the Vikings, 38-7, advancing to Super Bowl LII. When Zach was shown this video in the locker room, he was overcome with emotion. Oh, to be young, in love, scoring goals and touchdowns.

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Senate Talks Fall Short, Shutdown Extends into Workweek: The government shutdown is set to sow more disruption and political peril Monday after the Senate inched closer but ultimately fell short of an agreement that would have reopened federal agencies before the beginning of the workweek. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said negotiations kept going late into the night, with a vote to break a Democratic filibuster on a short-term funding bill scheduled for noon Monday. Under the proposal taking shape, Democratic would agree to a three-week spending measure — until Feb. 8 — in return for a commitment from the Republican leadership in the Senate to address immigration policy and other pressing legislative matters in the coming weeks. But Democrats appeared to be holding out for a firmer commitment from McConnell. "We have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward," Schumer said late Sunday.

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Has it always been your dream to watch the Eagles play in the Super Bowl… in person?

Well, it’s going to cost you thousands to go to Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis.

You also have to start planning your trip ASAP.

It’s a 17-hour-plus drive, more than 1,100 miles to Minneapolis. So it’s going to cost plenty to get that Eagles RV to the Twin Cities.

It’s much faster to fly – only three hours. But getting expensive. Plane tickets were already going for hundreds of dollars for the first weekend of February. Nonstop flights from Philadelphia that weekend cost more than $1,000. It’s a lot cheaper if you fly a few extra days before and after the big game but then you would need to pay more for the hotel room.

Getting there is still much cheaper than getting into the stadium.

Eagles season ticket holders can win the right to buy a face-value ticket… in a random drawing for a percentage of the tickets the team gets allocated. (The team gets around 17 percent of the seats in the stadium to divide up as they choose.)

Only a small percentage of season ticket holders will get a seat. For everybody else… tickets are up for grabs on resale sites and they aren’t cheap.

A seat near the field, behind the bench, was going for $40,000 on the official NFL Ticket Exchange Monday morning.

The cheapest seats available on StubHub and on the Eagles’ official Super Bowl partner, Primesport, went for around $5,000 Monday morning.

A lot of fans might consider grabbing one of the Eagles’ official travel packages that include a hotel room and a ticket to the game. They start at for less then $7,000 without flights. For $6,675 you can get three nights in a room of four at a Hilton Garden Inn and tickets to the Feb. 4 game.

The cheapest way to watch the game is going to be to stay home, turn up NBC10 and order some pizzas.

Go Birds!

Think last night’s Eagles win means an impromptu trip to Minnesota? If there’s a lot of padding in your wallet, then maybe you’re already well on your way.

But if you’re on a budget, then consider doing some serious research before planning that Super Bowl getaway. It’s going to cost you. A lot.

Flying

A quick Google flight search found tickets from Philadelphia International Airport to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport for a cool $891, and that’s if you fly in the morning of the big game and leave the next day. Want to get to know the Twin Cities over a few days? Then you’re looking at three-hour flights for roughly $1,200. That’s more expensive than flying to Europe this time of year.

You could also try to flying into neighboring airports, including Eau Claire Airport in Wisconsin. It’s about 95 miles outside the Twin Cities and would cost $578 for a Friday through Tuesday trip. That price increases for a Monday return flight.

Train

Amtrak is significantly cheaper but exponentially longer. A Friday to Monday excursion will cost $205 and will take more than 26 hours. A premium sleeper car with two fold-out beds will set you back $798.

Bus

Riding with Greyhound will take about 30 hours and cost $287 depending on which schedule you choose.

RV

Filling up an RV with friends, food and booze sounds like a fun option, but you might have a hard time finding a rental. Some RV retailers are already sold out online and in surrounding states, according to NBC10 Delaware bureau reporter Tim Furlong. Several lower cost options on RVShare.com were already booked, but a few higher end vehicles were still available Monday morning for upwards of $1,000 for Super Bowl weekend. That does not include the cost of gas or park permits.

Driving

Taking your own car might be the most cost efficient option. The drive from Philadelphia is roughly 17.5 hours without traffic. With current gas prices, a few tanks will cost around $200, according to OhMyGas.com. Get a few buddies to split the cost and you could get away from spending as little as $50 on transportation.

Once You Get There

So you braved the planes, trains and automobiles. Now what? Many hotels near the U.S. Bank Stadium have been sold out for some time or have surge pricing. Fortune.com found a Ramada hotel within 5 miles of the U.S. Bank Stadium for $909. It usually costs $84. Meanwhile, a Comfort Inn in neighboring Bloomington, Minnesota, is charging $575 a night for a room that normally goes for $76.

If these prices sound exorbitant, consider checking out AirBnB. Prices range from $78 to $550 for Super Bowl weekend in the immediate Minneapolis area. Prices dip down into the $50s and $40s for locations outside the city but within driving distance of the stadium.

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Crowds are scooping up Eagles NFC Championship merchandise any way they can. Monday morning fans rushed to Modell's in South Philly to stock up. NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports.

"Rocky" is back in the Philly mood.

The morning after Vikings fans shared photos of the iconic Rocky statue in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art decked out in a purple Vikings towel and yellow scarf, Rocky was back in Eagles green.

Philadelphia’s Office of the City Representative tweeted a photo of the bronze boxer wearing an Eagles cap, scarf and towel Monday morning.

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Considering the Birds knocked out the Vikings with a 38-7 victory that propelled them to the Super Bowl, it’s only fitting that Philly’s favorite fictional son is repping the Birds.

By Monday afternoon, however, Rocky was no longer wearing any clothes besides his normal bronze shorts, boots and boxing gloves.

A Montgomery County teenager is accused of attacking a Pennsylvania state trooper and his police horse during an incident in the parking lots prior to the NFC Championship Game between the Eagles and Vikings Sunday.

Police confirmed with NBC10 an arrest was made around 3:15 p.m. following a "disturbance" outside Lincoln Financial Field.

On Monday, police identified the suspect at Andrew Tornetta of North Wales, Pennsylvania. The 19-year-old is accused of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and related counts after police said he punched the trooper and a police horse.

Philadelphia Police revealed details about what they say happened after police told people to leave the area in Lot M:

"While mounted atop the horse, the (police) corporal began to escort him away from the crowd, again telling him to leave," police said in a news release. "The offender became verbally combative and maneuvered himself out of his jacket and was grabbed by his sweatshirt to maintain control due to him being under arrest. The offender then struck the officer's horse two times with his fist on his right front shoulder. The offender then struck the corporal on the right side of his face, below his eye, causing redness and swelling."

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Police said Tornetta tried to shed his clothes and blend back into the crowd in an attempt to flee but that other mounted police helped capture him.

NJ.com posted photos of a bloodied man who they say was an Eagles fan and was fighting with police officers after a brawl.

Police on horses can be seen in the photos. 

PHOTOS: Riot police on horses storm parking lots before Eagles vs. Vikings https://t.co/YMRO1WZpPe pic.twitter.com/o8S3iuYgdR

— NJ.com (@njdotcom) January 21, 2018

In his booking photo, Tornetta has a bandage on his face. Online court records from a previous arrest don't list an attorney who could comment on Tornetta's behalf.

The below video was also posted to YouTube of the aftermath of much of the mayhem.

*Warning of graphic language and violent imagery*

Just last week a different Eagles fan was arrested for punching a horse and assaulting a cop outside of the Linc.

Eagles fans pack local sporting goods stores to grab NFC Champion gear. NBC10's Miguel Martinez-Valle has the details.

Police are searching for armed carjackers who have targeted vehicles in Paulsboro for the past few months. NBC10's Cydney Long speaks to residents who are on edge.

The Eagles crushed the Vikings in the NFC Championship game Sunday night. Excited fans took to the streets and celebrated the team’s first appearance in the Super Bowl since 2005.

The celebrations ranged from the mild (E-A-G-L-E-S chants), to the funny (a mock SKOL chant), to the risky (a fan climbing a pole despite the ‘Crisco Cops’ greasing it ahead of time). Yet one celebration trumped them all in terms of ridiculousness.

A person, presumably an Eagles fan, drove up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum in a dune buggy. Video of the surreal scene, which one social media user described as something out of a Steven Spielberg movie, quickly went viral.

It was an insane moment in reaction to something that seemed equally insane to many fans only a few weeks ago when Carson Wentz went down. The Eagles are going to the Super Bowl.

NBC10's Harry Hairston reponds after a local woman's brand new kitchen oven suddenly experienced issues.

With the Eagles heading to the Super Bowl, Mayor Kenney was faced with a very important question. Will the city dress up Billy Penn in an Eagles jersey? No, according to his spokesperson. 

“They lost the past two times they decorated him,” the spokesman told NBC10. “He’s not risking it.”

As Philly lore states, the city’s professional sports teams were cursed in 1987 when One Liberty Place was constructed. At 945-feet tall, it was the first building in the city to soar over the William Penn statue on top of City Hall and was nearly 400-feet taller than Billy Penn’s hat.

With the “gentleman’s agreement” that the Billy Penn statue remain the tallest point in the city broken, the curse began, beginning a 20-year period in which no Philly sports team won a championship.

The city placed a red Phillies baseball cap on Billy’s head during the 1993 World Series, which the Phils lost. They also dressed Billy in an orange and white Flyers jersey during the 1997 Stanley Cup Final, which the Flyers lost.

The curse was finally lifted after the Comcast Center became the city’s tallest building in 2007 and ironworkers placed a miniature Billy Penn statue on its highest beam. The following October, the Philadelphia Phillies became World Series champions. And just to be extra careful, crews were sure to place another miniature Billy Penn statue on top of the city's newest and tallest skyscraper, the Comcast Technology Center, in 2017.

Yet even with the curse broken, Kenney still doesn’t want to risk “jinxing” the Eagles by dressing him up in a jersey. We understand his concern but to be fair, Billy wasn’t dressed up during the 2001 NBA Finals, Super Bowl XXXIX, the 2009 World Series, or the 2010 Stanley Cup Final either. And we all know how all of those turned out.

So what say you Philly sports fans? Should Billy Penn be dressed in Eagles green or is it best to just leave him be?

A fire killed a New Jersey father and his two young children overnight.

Police and firefighters responded to a fire at a two-story apartment building on Park Avenue off of Route 49 at 1:49 a.m. in Bridgeton, New Jersey Monday.

A 28-year-old man, his 6-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son all died in the fire, which officials believe started on the second floor where the victims lived.

The mother of the children who died, her 10-month-old son and a 33-year-old male relative, managed to escape the fire. The mother and baby are being treated at the Crozier-Chester Medical Center and St. Christopher’s Hospital while the male relative was taken to Inspira Hospital in Vineland for observation.

A 27-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter who lived on the first floor also managed to escape safely.

Officials continue to investigate the cause.

The federal government is open after Congress agreed on a temporary deal to end the shutdown Monday night. Federal workers will return to work Tuesday morning. NBC10's Dray Clark has more on the temporary fix.