Rob McElhenney watching Eagles’ playoff game on phone from Emmy Awards

Rob McElhenney won’t even let the Emmy Awards keep him from watching the Eagles. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” actor posted a photo on X that showed him watching the Eagles Buccaneers wild card game Monday night while sitting in the audience at the ceremony in Los Angeles. McElhenney has recently served as the executive producer for the “Welcome to Wrexham” sports documentary, which took five Emmys at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony last week and chronicles the Wrexham FC team he co owns with actor Ryan Reynolds.

“I’ll be checking back in throughout the night with the Emmys,” McElhenney said before the show, according to the Los Angeles Times , “but I’ll be watching the game. … I’ll check in with the Emmys every once in a while to see who won and whatever.” McElhenney’s Eagles fandom has been documented before, as the Philadelphia native coordinated a tailgate ahead of the Eagles 49ers NFC Championship game last year where the Wrexham game — in the FA Cup — was shown on television outside of Lincoln Financial Field, according to Philadelphia’s WPVI news station .

Who schedules the Emmys the same night as the @eagles #gobirds #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/qaRiD0ZFHx “Truly a dream come true,” McElhenney said that day, accord i ng to ESPN . “To be able to celebrate this game and of course the NFC Championship with all my friends and family, people I grew up with in the city I grew up in, it’s a dream come true.” McElhenney, who bought Wrexham FC with Reynolds in 2020, also told ESPN in January that he noticed similarities between the Eagles and Wrexham, especially with the role both teams possess in their local community.

“The club is the beating heart of the community, and that’s exactly what we see here in Philadelphia, that the Eagles are the beating heart of the city — as well as the [76ers] and the Flyers and the Phillies,” McElhenney told ESPN. “You just see it everywhere you go.” At the Emmys on Monday, McElhenney said he still felt “confident” about the Eagles — “you can’t go into a game feeling pessimistic,” he told the LA Times — despite their five losses in six games to close the regular season, and he predicted a 27 24 victory against the Buccaneers to set up a game in the divisional round against the Lions.

Tampa Bay led the Eagles, 16 9, at halftime behind a Baker Mayfield touchdown pass and three Chase McLaughlin field goals..