Say what you will about Philadelphia fans, but the Eagles had zero trouble selling out their playoff game against New Orleans, unlike the other three teams hosting games on wild-card weekend.

There was never a concern the game would be blacked out locally. The Eagles didn't need the NFL to extend the deadline so that they could have their corporate partners jump in and save the day at the last minute.

Nope. Eagles fans bought tickets. All of them. Quickly.

Green Bay, Cincinnati and Indianapolis sold all of their tickets, too. It just took awhile. And it took help.

Blizzard-like conditions? So what. A little snow wasn't enough to keep Philly fans from showing up to The Linc in Week 14. Hunter Martin/Philadelphia Eagles/Getty Images

Ninety-two percent of Eagles season-ticket holders agreed to buy playoff tickets last Friday, before the Eagles had won the NFC East to qualify for the postseason. On Monday, after Philadelphia beat Dallas to win the division and make the playoffs for the first time since 2010, that number jumped to 96 percent. On Tuesday, the team made the 5,000 remaining tickets available for purchase, half at 10 a.m., the other half at noon. The first 2,500 were gone by 10:05 a.m. and the second batch was gone by 12:05 p.m.

"It's overwhelming," Eagles president Don Smolenski said. "I think it speaks to the fan base and it speaks to the sports city that is Philadelphia. Philadelphia and the people of Philadelphia, whether it's the Flyers, the Phillies, the Sixers, the Eagles, they're there, and they've been there through the good times and through the not-so-good times. All the teams know that. They appreciate it. They respect it. They're grateful for it. It makes you feel proud."

The convenient narrative outside of the Delaware Valley is that Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus and cheered Michael Irvin's career-ending injury at Veterans Stadium. Philly fans will never escape those moments, no matter how classy of an ovation they gave Andy Reid or Donovan McNabb or Brian Dawkins when each came back wearing another team's colors.

Yes, the fans are loud. Yes, they can be nasty. Yes, it is unwise to wear another team's jersey -- particularly the Cowboys' -- to Eagles home games. Yes, there is what Smolenski called a "police reception center" in the bowels of the stadium that gets used with regularity. Fifteen fans were arrested at the last home game in Week 16 against Chicago; 68 were ejected.

But Eagles fans show up. Every home game has been sold out since the second game of the 1999 season. There are 40,000 people on the waiting list for season tickets. Nearly 70,000 people were in attendance for the Snow Bowl game in Week 14 against the Lions, when 8 inches of snow fell throughout the game and the wind chill was 20 degrees.

Just about everybody stayed.