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By noon today, Bobby Mansure, founder of the Philadelphia Eagles Pep Band, will be in the team's trademark green, revving up the pregame crowd at Lincoln Financial Field. Assuming a hoped-for victory performance on Comcast SportsNet, he'll perform his final "Fly, Eagles, Fly" of the night on tenor sax seven hours later.

At midday tomorrow, Mansure, a longtime Mummer who marches with the Hegeman String Band, will hit Broad Street in makeup and feathers to play those familiar sing-alongs synonymous with Philadelphia. In between, he'll greet the new year at a Center City pub and look for fireworks above the Delaware. Like thousands of revelers throughout the region, Mansure plans to roll from tailgate to game to party to parade with the spirit of an Eagles fan and the stamina of a Mummer. "It's a perfect storm," said Mansure, 40, of Manayunk. "All these forces coming together." Philadelphia, a town ...