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LeSean McCoy Wasn’t Just An Elusive Back; He Was One of the Eagles’ Best Ever. PHOTO: Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY Sports Two years after the Eagles hoisted the Lombardi Trophy in 2018, the Kansas City Chiefs found themselves up on the San Francisco 49ers 24–20 deep in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LIV. With 1:12 left in the game, Chiefs running back Damien Williams took a … [Read more...] about Not Shady In the Least: Eagles Induct LeSean McCoy into Eagles Hall of Fame

A Century After the NFL Arrived in Philly, Why 2024 Is Its Most Important Season. In October of 2022, at the NCAA’s oldest stadiums, Franklin Field in Philadelphia —at one of the oldest college football rivalries in the country- the University of Penn found itself tied at 20 late in the game against rival Yale. A turnover then gave the ball back to Penn with just over five … [Read more...] about Doing the Needful

The Eagles and Packers Go Back Almost a Century. On Friday, They Both Step Into the Future.  On Friday — the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers will begin another epic battle in the Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first ever NFL game in South America to open their respective NFL seasons. If you think that one hundred years of professional football in Philadelphia — born when a … [Read more...] about A New Chapter for A 90-Year Rivalry

The Eagles First Home Game in South America Reflects the Future of Philadelphia. One hundred years ago in July of 1924 — Frankford Yellow Jackets Head Coach Punk Berryman began preparing his team for the season ahead. Unlike the nearly twenty-five years before, Berryman wasn’t preparing a Yellow Jackets team for another club season. This Yellow Jackets team had been granted an … [Read more...] about A Modern Philly, A Modern Eagles