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Brad Pitt shows true colors to Eagles fans with brutal Bradley Cooper admission

Originally posted on Inside the Iggles | By Gourab Saha | Last updated Jul 2, 2025 4:00 PM ET

Brad Pitt knows the sting of fandom. Think of a sweltering Oklahoma Saturday, the Sooners lose, and a young Pitt avoids Dad for days. Sound familiar? That raw, gut-punch feeling when your team crashes?

It’s universal, like overcooked Thanksgiving turkey. Sports tie us to place and family, amplifying every win into euphoria and every loss into personal agony. Pitt, despite the Hollywood glow, bleeds that passion too. His team?

The Kansas City Chiefs, a bond forged in Missouri soil and decades of shared struggle. However, this shared passion... It made his recent admission on the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast sting Eagles fans. It stung just like a winter wind off the Schuylkill.

Brad, the lifelong Chiefs devotee, reveled in twisting the knife on his friend, die-hard Eagles supporter Bradley Cooper. After the Eagles fell in the 2023 playoffs and the Chiefs surged towards another Super Bowl, Brad Pitt presented Cooper with an award. It was for the movie Maestro (a film Pitt calls "probably one of the best movies of this decade") at the Santa Barbara Film Awards. But he closed with a brutal zinger.

The Zinger Served Cold

"He's been nominated the 1900th time. You know, if he doesn’t get it, it’s okay. He’s used to it. He’s a Philadelphia Eagles fan," Pitt had said. Ugh! Ouch! That's colder than Veterans Stadium concrete in January.

Indeed, it landed like a cheap shot after the whistle. The jab tapped directly into Philadelphia’s complex sports psyche—a city defined by passionate loyalty and enduring heartbreak. Remember the "Santa Claus Snowball Game"?

Eagles fans wear their resilience... and sometimes their bitterness, like a badge. Pitt’s joke weaponized that history perfectly. Naturally, the fallout was swift. "He was happy this year... We didn’t talk for two months," Pitt admitted. The silence spoke volumes louder than any Eagles chant.

Pitt doubled down on the podcast, insisting he lacks "that kind of hubris" to sway games. Yet, he couldn't resist sharing the Cooper story, clearly relishing the playful rivalry. But can this Hollywood spat fuel something tangible on the field? Teams often rally around narratives such as: "us against the world." And suddenly, the Eagles have gotten a new, albeit unlikely, villain. Or, anti-hero.

The Karma Question & Chiefs Fandom

Fast forward to Super Bowl LIX. The Eagles dominated the Chiefs 40-22 in New Orleans. Suddenly, Pitt’s jab looked less like a victory lap and more like tempting fate. Pitt acknowledged Cooper’s graciousness post-victory: "He gracefully let me hurt." No gloating texts, just quiet satisfaction.

Reflecting on his Chiefs journey, Pitt contrasted the lean years—referencing the electrifying Dante Hall era, though mistakenly calling him "Devin Hester"—with the current dynasty’s "sublime" perfection. "You just feel this sense of pride now," he mused, capturing the relief of long-suffering fans everywhere, "instead of the sense of, like, all life’s out, always against us."

Looking ahead, Pitt pledged to finally make his Arrowhead Stadium debut this season, playfully warning Travis Kelce, "I just want you wearing oven mitts till the season starts." The rivalry, both on the field and now intertwined with Hollywood A-listers, promises more chapters.

For Eagles fans, it’s another slight to file away, another log on the fiery passion that defines them. As the great screenwriter William Goldman once noted about Hollywood, and perhaps sports too, "Nobody knows anything." Especially not about karma or the enduring power of a well-timed, brutal joke.

This article first appeared on Inside the Iggles and was syndicated with permission.

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