Decoration of Penn
In spite of the Curse, when Philadelphia sports teams have reached their league's championship round, Penn's statue has sometimes been decorated to support that team's success. For example, after the Phillies won the 1993 National League pennant, Penn was fitted with an oversized red Phillies baseball cap; when the Flyers went to the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals, the city adorned Penn with an orange-torso-with-white-shoulders Flyers jersey (at the time, the combination was the Flyers' road jersey).
When the Sixers faced the Lakers in the 2001 NBA Finals Billy Penn was not decorated. Pat Croce, part-owner of the Sixers, said he would have "decked out" the statue had the Sixers won but not before. Billy Penn was also left untouched when the Eagles went to Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005.
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