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Vice President Biden Tweets About Eagles: 'It's Our Year'

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia is fired up.

Its football team is unexpectedly 3-0 and their rookie quarterback is a star.

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The excitement made its all the way to the Vice President of the United States and Scranton, PA native Joe Biden, who took to Twitter to express his elation for the Eagles.

Biden tagged his wife, the second lady of the United States, Jill in the tweet. Jill was born in Hammonton, NJ and grew up in Willow Grove, PA.

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The Eagles are off this week before heading to Detroit to take on the Lions in Week 5 on Sunday, October 9th.

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