One-hundred-two-year-old Eloise Brown. Nine-year-old Declan LeBaron. Twenty-six-year-old Ryan Quigley. These are some of the Eagles fans we got to know this past season, folks whose personal stories touched our hearts — and whose support from our favorite football team made us love our Birds even more.

Will these deserving, newfound celebrities wave from atop a vehicle in the victory parade on Friday? Probably not. Should they? Most definitely. Because these extraordinary everyday Philadelphians remind us fans that if we persevere, if we make good choices, if we think of others before ourselves, if we show up when it counts, others will show up for us. The Eagles are the best in the NFL, and these Eagles fans are the best of us.

(Plus, who wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a Broad Street wave from Eloise Brown?)

Eloise Brown, the centenarian superfan

The 102-year-old great-grandmother who hasn’t missed an Eagles game in 60 years played a starring role in December’s NFC East Championship game against Dallas, where she, Coach Nick Sirianni, the game ball — and her custom-made number 102 jersey, gifted that day by the Eagles — posed for photos together.

A few weeks later, Eloise Brown, wearing her signature Kelly green jersey-shaped dangly earrings that say “Brown 11,” and her family were rolling onto a plane to New Orleans with Super Bowl LIX tickets, courtesy of team President Dom Smolenski. Meeting them at their New Orleans hotel? None other than A.J. Brown, her earrings’ wide-receiving namesake, holding another jersey for Eloise, this one, a signed number 11.

Declan LeBaron, the pay-it-forward-er

Anyone who’s scrolled along YouTube Shorts for more than a minute has seen one of those videos where an influencer offers a stranger a choice between a mystery gift and cash. When 9-year-old Doylestown resident Declan LeBaron found himself in this familiar situation in the Dollar Tree, he — who happened to be wearing all his Eagles gear at once — took the Swoop doll, not the $1,000. In doing so, he won both NFC Championship tickets and that money. LeBaron, a systemic juvenile arthritis patient who’d never been to see his Birds in person, kept the former for himself, and promptly distributed the latter (plus a few hugs) to his fellow Dollar Tree shoppers.

Fast forward to the game, and there he was, fist bumping Shady McCoy, waving Isaiah Rodgers’ gloves, letting Saquon Barkley sign his number 26 jersey, and getting a kiss blown from fellow Eagles superfan Bradley Cooper. Cooper would go on to bring LeBaron and his family Super Bowl tickets on the Today Show — and hold him in his arms while chanting “E-A-G-L-E-S” next to the team tunnel before they ran onto the field of the Superdome.

Ryan Quigley, the friend to the end

Ryan Quigley’s VIP trips to the NFC Divisional Playoff, an Eagles practice at the NovaCare Complex, and NFL Championship were something much stronger than bittersweet. Weeks earlier, the Montgomery County resident had lost his best friend and fellow former Princeton football teammate Tiger Bech in the New Year’s morning attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The 20-something best friends had been Eagles season ticket holders.

Using a wheelchair, and later crutches — the attack left him with broken bones in his leg, back and face — Quigley met some of the guys he and Bech had previously seen only from their seats. During the visit, Brandon Graham emerged from the locker room with two Super Bowl tickets for him.

“Growing up an Eagles fan … I always knew they’re good football players, but they’re phenomenal people off the field as well,” said Quigley. Although he’d promised himself he’d never go back to New Orleans, he did it for Bech. “All year I’ve been telling Tiger if the Eagles make the Super Bowl this year, I was going to take him … We’re going to go back to New Orleans and leave on a positive note from that city, given that Tiger’s from there and that I promised him.”

Mason Doherty, the fighter

If there was one scene that inspired 12-year-old Mason Doherty to push through after a flag football concussion paralysed him: Barkley’s iconic backwards leap at the Eagles-Jaguars game. Doherty, an Orlando resident who, like his dad, bleeds green, has rehabbed for Functional Neurological Disorder by relearning how to walk while focusing on things that give him joy — solving a Rubik’s Cube in under a minute and playing catch with a football.

Dad Curt Doherty made a video recapping his son’s journey back from injury, sent it to the Eagles — and received a reply video from Barkely, praising Mason for his perseverance and inviting him to Super Bowl LIX. Said Amanda Doherty, “As a mom, watching him get to go to the Super Bowl, and just watching his genuine, pure joy reaction, it was just a full-circle moment.”

Said Curt, “We hope [Mason’s] story is able to give hope that … you can come out from something so hard and so terrible and so scary and still be able to push and go for your dreams and what you want, and the fear doesn’t have to stop you.”

Trey Howard, the superhero

Andre “Trey” Howard III is the only Eagles fan on this list who didn’t make it to the Super Bowl. That’s because on February 9, the 10-year-old from Philly was still at Children’s Hospital, recovering from a brain injury incurred while protecting his younger sister from debris from the medical transport jet crash in Northeast Philadelphia on January 31. According to news reports, the moment Howard woke up from emergency surgery, he asked if he’d saved his sister — and if he’d missed the big game. No, said his dad, Andre Jr. He was good on both counts.

Now that the Eagles are back in town, A.J. Brown immediately delivered on his promise to visit Howard, whom he called a “hero.” (To his credit, Sixers point guard Tyrese Maxey has paid him an earlier visit.) “He says thank you to everybody,” his dad told 6abc, who said he’s been telling his son, “You’re bigger than a celebrity. You’re a superhero.”

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