{"id":200322,"date":"2025-09-04T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:28:12","slug":"love-conquers-all-for-this-delaware-couple-except-when-philadelphia-eagles-play-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200322\/","title":{"rendered":"Love conquers all for this Delaware couple, except when Philadelphia Eagles play Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love conquers all for one Delaware Couple, except when the Philadelphia Eagles play the Dallas Cowboys<\/a>. Well, game day is here, and so is another installment of one of the NFL’s biggest rivalries: Birds vs. ‘Boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this household, navigating an Eagles-Cowboys game<\/a>\u00a0can sometimes be difficult.<\/p>\n

Mendy Orlando loves the Eagles. Her husband, Dan, well, he cheers on that team from Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n

“How does it happen?” Mendy asked Dan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dan replied, “Somehow, I ended up with an Eagles fan.”<\/p>\n

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The Newark, Delaware, couple will celebrate three decades of marriage next year. They say they really only fight during football season.<\/p>\n

“We’re good,” Mendy Orlando said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dan Orlando added with a laugh, “Just not on Eagles-Cowboys game day<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

On those days, they usually don’t talk, watch the game together, or, sometimes, even stay in the same house. Holidays, in fact, have been canceled if the rivalry interferes.<\/p>\n

“We always host Christmas Eve, so we didn’t do Christmas Eve two years ago, so we had it on the 23rd,” Mendy Orlando said.<\/p>\n

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As for their five kids, Mendy Orlando is outnumbered. They’re Cowboys fans, too. She’s holding out hope for the grandkids.<\/p>\n

As for their secret to staying together?<\/p>\n

“Well, now, he’s not fighting so much because they have nothing to cheer for,” Mendy Orlando said. “We haven’t been fighting so bad.”<\/p>\n

Dan Orlando added, “Still cheer for them, still hate your team.”<\/p>\n

“I know, but we haven’t had big fights,” Mendy Orlando said.<\/p>\n

Dan Orlando replied: “Well, you leave.”<\/p>\n

Mendy Orlando responded: “True. It’s all evolved!”<\/p>\n

Love conquers all on 363 days \u2014 most years.<\/p>\n

Nikki DeMentri<\/a><\/p>\n

Nikki DeMentri is a general assignment reporter with CBS Philadelphia. The Central New Jersey native is thrilled she is sharing the stories of where she grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love conquers all for one Delaware Couple, except when the Philadelphia Eagles play the Dallas Cowboys. Well, game…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,905,80574,1448,2830,1311,1105,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-200322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delaware","10":"tag-new-castle-county","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115147683204359768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}