Philadelphia Eagles Memorabilia

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In the modern era of the National Football League, teams have been known to pack up and leave town in the middle of the night (the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis in 1984), change zip codes yet retain their former city’s name (the San Francisco...
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In the modern era of the National Football League, teams have been known to pack up and leave town in the middle of the night (the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis in 1984), change zip codes yet retain their former city’s name (the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara in 2014), and even abandon a loyal fan base, return as conquering heroes, and then make plans to skedaddle again (the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles in 1982, back to Oakland in 1995, and due leave Oakland again to play their games in Las Vegas at some point after 2018). The Philadelphia Eagles, who have been a franchise of the National Football League since 1933, were also involved in a city swap, although it was the franchise that left town rather than the team name. This curious circumstance occurred in 1941, when the Philadelphia organization and its players relocated to Pittsburgh while the Pittsburgh Steelers did the opposite, but the names stayed put. Stranger still were the Phil-Pitt Eagles, or Steagles as they were also known, of 1943, a combined team formed due a shortage of players during World War II. All that tumult must have been good for the team, though, because under the direction of coach Earle "Greasy" Neale, the Eagles won back-to-back NFL Championships, the precursor to the Super Bowl, in 1948 and 1949. In fact, those Eagles teams are so highly regarded, each squad is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Other Eagles of note to have made the hall include Chuck Bednarik, who was a rookie linebacker and center on that 1949 team. Steve Van Buren spent his entire career with the Eagles from 1944 to 1951 as a halfback—like Bednarik, he was on the 1949 championship team, as well as the one the year before it. Though known to many as the head coach of the Chicago Bears, a tight end hall-of-famer named Mike Ditka was also an Eagle, albeit for just two seasons. Longer-lived was Sonny Jurgensen, who began his career as a quarterback in 1957. Jurgensen was on the Eagles’...
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