Cowboys legend Michael Irvin wins over booing Eagles fans at Philly bar ahead of Home Run Derby

Dallas Cowboys legends Michael Irvin tells Fox News Digital that his former team will be much improved next season, so much so that they will make the Super Bowl.

This is not your grandfather's Philadelphia.

Nearly 27 years ago, Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin laid motionless on the concrete jungle surface of Veterans Stadium for the last time. He was wheeled off on a stretcher to the cheers of Eagles fans who watched as the rival, who had dominated them for well over a decade, left with a spinal cord injury.

Irvin's football career was over.

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On Sunday, Irvin was back in Philly and wearing his jersey in a local watering hole with not a care in the world that fans booed him. It's good for business. The Playmaker is back in the City of Brotherly Love not as a villain, but as a guest podcaster/influencer for tonight's MLB All-Star Game Home Run Derby.

Is Irvin an odd choice for a baseball event? Of course, but if you're going to intentionally fire up Philly fans, Irvin is a smart foil. He wants the heat.

"It was a compliment for Philly to cheer me," the Playmaker said years later of the Eagles fans who cheered after he was carted off in 1999. "Philly wasn't cheering my injury. They were cheering my departure," he added. "Thank God he's leaving the field, he's been killing us. Thank God, maybe now we have a chance to win. You've never heard me say one negative thing about the Philadelphia crowd."

Dallas Cowboys player Michael Irvin is wheeled off the field to an ambulance after being injured on a pass play in the first quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia. Irvin was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.