Save Sundays for the Birds

You might consider Patrick Moeller an extreme fan. But Moeller thinks of himself as a regular Eagles’ fan who likes to travel to each game in style.

“I went to a couple of tailgate parties with friends,” says Moeller, 48, of Moorestown. “Everyone was having such a good time, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to do this at every game?’”

That was back in 2006, when Moeller bought his customized RV, Eagle One, which has become the command center of fun on Sundays during the Eagles’ season for Moeller and his family.

Eagles’ fans have been dubbed some of the most besotted and fervent fans in the country, and they consider tailgating at Lincoln Financial Field as serious as a heart attack.

Moeller’s RV, flanked with flashing green lights and an enormous graphic of quarterback Michael Vick hurling a football, incites a stir whenever the 40-foot mammoth motors by, tugging its splashy 20-foot trailer, which encases a golf cart.

“This way, we can drive around the parking lot and not have to walk in bad weather,” Moeller says of the helmet-shaped cart.

The inside of Eagle One, decorated with team slipcovers and more decals, boasts a kitchen, six beds, a bathroom and five plasma TVs. A grill for outside cooking and a fire pit for s’mores get used at every home and away game, while watching ESPN on the exterior TV hidden under a custom panel.

A fan since growing up in Beach Haven on Long Beach Island, Moeller says he went to games as a kid and now has 20 season tickets.

“If the kids want to invite their friends, we have enough tickets for the parents to come along, too,” says Moeller, referring to his four, ages 19, 16, 14, and 9, who along with his wife, Monica, make 90 percent of the trips.

“Sometimes Monica and the kids will fly out and meet me at a game, so the kids don’t miss too much school,” says Moeller.

In total, Eagle One has logged over 93,000 miles and has traveled to every game but two.

“I didn’t go to one in San Francisco because I had recently been there,” Moeller says. “And there was one in Dallas I didn’t make ... It was Christmas Eve.”

Each year, Moeller, owner of Callan & Moeller Construction, chucks about $100,000 in tickets and travel-related expenses—gasoline, airline tickets and hotel rooms—all to see his beloved birds.

The official “Eagles’ Fight Song,” as well as the “Rocky” theme song, can be provocatively heard blaring from Eagle One as Moeller and his family soar into stadiums across the nation, causing the occasional annoyance from the enemy.

“We can irritate some people when we pull in,” Moeller acknowledges.

He added that “Taps” is respectfully reserved for losses.

“And we don’t like to have to play that often,” Moeller says.