They gathered near City Hall to celebrate the win, the team's first in franchise history.
A local ad agency, Brownstein Group, captured the hoopla in the timelapse below. The video begins around 10 p.m. on Sunday night, with cars passing like normal - until the end of the game. Anticipating the incoming mass of fans, a police squad on bikes promptly showed up on Broad Street, one of Philadelphia's main thoroughfares.
Then, the party erupted.Crowds flipped over a car, set another vehicle on fire, scaled the gates of City Hall with a keg , took down and climbed streetlights, smashed windows, and littered streets with debris. The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported that several fans looted a gas station . Three arrests were made during the night's celebrations, the Mayor's Office said .
The timelapse ends late into the night, when the crowd finally disperses.
On Monday morning, city crews started cleaning up, a job that consisted of sweeping up broken glass, picking up beer cans, and repairing traffic poles. By noon, workers began preparing for Thursday's Super Bowl victory parade , according to the Inquirer.
The city expects two million people to attend the parade, which could generate over 50 tons of trash .