Cowboys star DeMarcus Ware says an Eagles fan hurt his mother during an argument over a fan insulting a woman.

Philadelphia Eagles fans are under the national spotlight after one of them, Ryan Caldwell, was seen sexually assaulting a female Green Bay Packers fan during a playoff game last Sunday.

But the history of anti-feminist supporters goes back much further than that.

Former Dallas Cowboys player DeMarcus Ware, who played in Philadelphia every year during his time in Dallas from 2005 to 2013, told Fox News Digital that he once saw Eagles fans throw lethal projectiles at his mother, Brenda Ann Ware, during the game. his first year in 2005.

“My rookie season when my mom was in the stands, I told her not to wear my jersey, and she was in front, and when she was there in Philly, they were putting batteries in snowballs and they threw them and one of them hit my mom,” Ware said.

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Seeing his mother being targeted by a snow-covered battery almost made Ware abandon his football career and run into the stands to start a fight.

“I turned around at that point, and I didn’t care about the ball anymore. I wanted to go get the guy on the field. But I didn’t,” Ware said.

The linebacker held back, allowing team security to attend to the fan who injured his mother. But he allowed the memory of the incident to grow in his mind, and it inspired him every time he played with the Eagles.

The Cowboys beat the Eagles 21-20 in that 2005 game in Philadelphia to sweep the season series.

In 17 career games against the Eagles, Ware had 16 total sacks. The Cowboys outscored their opponents 9-8 in games played by Ware.

Ware had his most revengeful stretch against the Eagles in 2011. In January of that year, he had three sacks at Philadelphia in the 2010 season finale to help seal a 14-13 victory. The following season, in an October game at Philadelphia, he had four sacks, the most he had ever had in a game against his biggest rival. He had two more sacks in the second game against the Eagles that year in December at Dallas.

But despite nearly ten years of hatred from Eagle fans for what he did to his mother, he still respects the will of his fans. The franchise’s former home, Veterans Stadium, had a jury court and jail cells to deal with law-breaking fans, which is not something Ware takes lightly.

“Philadelphia Eagles fans, they are very dedicated fans,” he said.

“When you have a jail down the field back in the day, when you can go to jail because you did something, even when we played all the time, it was a competitive battle. it was up there or at home and their fans, they’re good, they’re strong, and that’s who they are.

Caldwell’s recent viral video has also sparked some fan speculation as the team battles for the Super Bowl this season.

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Jan. 12, 2025; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Eagles fans during their game against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC wildcard game at Lincoln Financial Field. (Photos by Eric Hartline-Imagn)

The video shows Caldwell calling nearby Packers fans profanity and sexist names, while taunting a male escort with graphic gestures.

Caldwell has been fired from his job as a project manager at NJ-based firm BCT Partners. He apologized but also defended himself by insisting that his actions were “not without anger” and that the video shared by people “does not show the full context” of what happened.

Still, Caldwell’s misbehavior is just the latest in a long history of unruly and sometimes illegal behavior by fans over the years.

In 1997, during a Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers, a violent Eagles fan fired a gun into the stadium full of other fans, putting many lives in danger.

After the shooting of the boxer, many fistfights broke out in the stadium as most of the violence was directed at 49ers fans and Eagles fans.

“There have been a large number of fights and acts of intimidation, many directed at 49ers jersey fans,” the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote at the time.

After the game, Eagles owner Jeffrie Lurie was forced to criticize his fans.

“Despite the fact that we feel we have made significant strides in recent years in terms of fan behavior at Veterans Stadium, what we saw last Monday undoubtedly set us back,” Lurie told reporters at the time.

In 2018, an Eagles fan was arrested during an NFC playoff game against the Falcons, for hitting a Philadelphia police officer’s horse.

According to a police report at the time, the man was fired because he was “drunk and didn’t have a ticket.” After being ejected from Lincoln Stadium, the man approached the police on horseback and “started hitting the horse in the face, neck and shoulder.”

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Philadelphia Eagles fans climb poles after taking to the streets. (Fox News Digital)

After the Eagles won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots that year, many violent riots broke out across the city. Looting and vandalism were reported at multiple stores and at a local Macy’s store. Cars were blown up, traffic lights and lampposts were destroyed, and there were unconfirmed reports of explosions.

One of the best examples of unruly behavior by Eagles fans dates back to 1968, when a man dressed as Santa Claus walked onto the field. He was booed endlessly by fans upset by the disappointing season and, like Ware’s mother, was even pelted with snowballs.

But it didn’t stop there, as he was also hit with beer cans and even sandwiches.

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