Philadelphia Eagles

Note: Although Reggie White's 92 has not been worn since Reggie had it, the number will not be officially retired until a ceremony during the 2005 season. Grapes of Wrath also refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation: "And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God" (14:19). E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe, where she describes God as "trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored". Fly, Eagles Fly, on the road to victory!. When Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1962), the Swedish Academy called the book "an epic chronicle". Hit'em low, hit'em high, and watch our Eagles fly!. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940; it is frequently read in high school and college literature classes.

Fight, Eagles Fight, score a touchdown 1, 2, 3!. Steinbeck wrote this book, along with Of Mice and Men, in what is now Monte Sereno, California, in the home at 16250 Greenwood Lane. Fly, Eagles Fly, on the road to victory!. At the conclusion of the novel the family shows resoluteness in the face of defeat. The Eagles are well known for their famous fight song, Fly, Eagles Fly:. En route to California the grandparents die; on their arrival the surviving members of the family are involved in strikes that turn violent, and Tom, the son, kills a man. The fans have since been rewarded with the winningest NFL team in the past five years, while the New England Patriots have gone on to win three Super Bowls in that same period, including one over the Eagles themselves. He follows the Joad family, 'Okie' farmers driven from their land by drought and forced to endure the hardships of life as agricultural workers.

The Eagle fans had no trouble filling the Vet and providing sellout after sellout. Set in the Great Depression, this popular proletarian novel tells the story of migrant workers (or sharecroppers) leaving the Dust Bowl, and moving on. He chose Philadelphia since New England was having difficulties selling out games and avoiding local blackouts. The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction published by John Steinbeck in 1939, in which descriptive, narrative, and philosophical passages succeed one another. Owner Jeffrey Lurie actually investigated buying the New England Patriots in the early 1990's. In 1995 Bruce Springsteen released an album entitled The Ghost of Tom Joad (http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheGhostOfTomJoad.html), featuring a song of the same name, later covered by Rage Against The Machine. These fans were put together from the radio station WIP and did not represent the general opinion of Philadelphia fans. He described the film in a column:.

A minority of Eagles fans wanted Ricky Williams and when the Eagles announced that McNabb was drafted, 30 or so fans present at the New York City draft booed the decision. Woody Guthrie wrote The Ballad of Tom Joad the night he saw the film. Another example of what Philadelphia fans have to offer is the drafting of star quarterback Donovan McNabb. This film has subsequently been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. He laughed it off and pointed to the few culprits saying "You're not getting anything for Christmas". Hansen for Best Sound Recording, and Nunnally Johnson for Best Screenplay Writing. As Olivo recounts, a few fans threw snowballs at him after he reached the endzone. Simpson for Best Film Editing, Edmund H.

A skinny, 20 year old Frank Olivo who was in the stands came to the rescue. Other nominations were for Best Picture, Henry Fonda for Best Actor, Robert L. The background story is that the original Santa was drunk and unable to perform. John Ford won the Academy Award for Directing, as did Jane Darwell for Best Supporting Actress. Perhaps the most famous (many would say infamous) example of the legend of Eagles' fans is the Santa Claus Incident, during which a few angry fans booed and threw snowballs at a man dressed as Santa at a game in 1968. Zanuck in 1940. But the Eagles defeated the Atlanta Falcons 27-10 on January 23, 2005 in the NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia, to advance to the Super Bowl XXXIX, where they were defeated by the New England Patriots, 24-21. A film version was produced by Darryl F.

The year after that, the Eagles hosted the Carolina Panthers at Lincoln Financial Field, but the Panthers advanced to Super Bowl XXXVIII by the score of 14-3. The next season, the Eagles hosted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Veteran's Stadium and were substantial favorites, but lost 27-10. Louis in the NFC Championship Game. In 2001, the Eagles fell to the Rams 29-24 in St.

By this time the Eagles were well known for their futility in National Football Conference Championship games since the 2001 season. This made him the first quarterback in NFL history to throw 30 or more TD passes and fewer than 10 INTs in a given season. McNabb had his finest season to date, passing for 3,875 yards and 31 touchdowns, throwing only eight interceptions. Their final two regular-season games thus rendered meaningless, the Eagles sat out most of their first-string players in these games and lost them both, yet still finished with a 13-3 record, their best 16-game season ever.

Their 12-7 victory in this game gave them homefield advantage throughout the playoffs (exclusive of the Super Bowl) for the third year in a row, the team having previously clinched their fourth straight NFC East division title, their fifth consecutive postseason appearance, and a first-round bye in the playoffs. Owens would end up with exactly 1,200 receiving yards and 14 touchdown receptions, although his season ended prematurely with an ankle injury on December 19, 2004 against the Dallas Cowboys. The 2004 season began with a bang as Owens caught three touchdown passes from McNabb in their season opener against the New York Giants. No doubt with the latter two facts in mind, the Eagles actively pursued — and ultimately got to trade for — premier wide receiver Terrell Owens, whom the team acquired in a controversial three-way deal involving themselves, the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, on March 16, 2004.

The Eagle receivers even went through both September and October without a TD catch — the last time an NFL team had done that was in 1945. They achieved both of the above despite getting only five touchdown catches all year from their wide receivers, which tied the league low since the regular-season schedule was lengthened to its present 16 games in 1978 (this record would be broken in 2004 when the New York Giants' wide receivers caught only two touchdown passes). In their opening game of the 2003 season the Eagles were shut out 17-0 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first regular-season game ever played at Lincoln Financial Field; by reaching the conference championship game in the same year as this defeat, they became the first team in modern history to get that far in the postseason after having been shut out at home in its first game. The 2003 team lost its first two games, both at home — but then proceeded to become the first team ever to make the playoffs after doing this in a non-strike year.

With this duo leading the way, the Eagles won the NFC's Eastern Division for four straight years beginning in 2001, also reaching the conference title game each year, but lost this game on the first three occasions. Their next period of prominence, which is still current, has come under the tutelage of head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Donovan McNabb, who was the first player ever drafted by Reid, in 1999. In 1991, the Eagles became the first NFL team since 1975 to rank first in the league in both rushing and passing yardage allowed, but neglected to reach the playoffs despite a 10-6 final record. A period of decline set in after this, which ended in 1988 when they made the first of three straight playoff appearances under coach Buddy Ryan, but did not win a postseason game in any of those years.

He had signed a "lifetime contract" with Jerry Wolman, who had owned the club at the time he was hired; on May 1, 1969, Wolman sold the team to Leonard Tose, whose first official act as owner was to fire Kuharich, who continued to draw a salary under the contract until his death. Kuharich was the team's head coach from 1964 through 1968; in the latter year he became the target of demands by fans that he be fired, who used the slogan "Joe Must Go" as their ralling cry (the 1968 Eagles lost their first eleven games and finished 2-12). In a bizarre coincidence, former Eagles head coach Joe Kuharich died on the same day as the above game. Starting in 1978, the Eagles qualified for the postseason four consecutive times, including making their first Super Bowl appearance ever following the 1980 season, but they lost, 27-10, to the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XV, played on January 25, 1981.

The following year the Eagles finished just a half-game behind the New York Giants for first place in the Eastern Conference standings with a 10-4 record, but would not seriously contend again until soon after Dick Vermeil became the head coach in 1976. The Eagles won this game, 17-13 over the Green Bay Packers, which was played at Franklin Field on December 26, 1960. Their next appearance in a league championship game would take place in 1960, with quarterback Norm Van Brocklin and linebacker Chuck Bednarik leading the offense and defense, respectively (Bednarik was also the last NFL player to play both offense and defense, lining up at center when the offense had the ball). But then things quickly turned around: Led by running back Steve Van Buren, the Eagles reached the NFL title game in each of the last three years of the 1940s, winning two of the contests.

The Eagles struggled mightily at first, not even so much as managing a single winning season until 1943, when they temporarily merged with the Pittsburgh Steelers to form a team known as "the Phil-Pitt Steagles" (this unusual arrangement being due to World War II). Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regards the two franchises as the same, citing the aforementioned period of dormancy; however, some observers believe the two teams should be treated as one. Bert Bell and Lud Wray, co-owners of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, an inactive NFL franchise since midway through the 1931 season, were granted permission to reactivate the club on July 9, 1933, under a new name, the Philadelphia Eagles.
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The team was founded in 1933 by co-owners Bert Bell and Lud Wray. The Philadelphia Eagles are a National Football League team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buck Shaw (1958-1960). Nick Skorich (1961-1963).

Joe Kuharich (1964-1968). Jerry Williams (1969-1971). Ed Khayat (1971-1972). Mike McCormack (1973-1975).

Dick Vermeil (1976-1982). Marion Campbell (1983-1985). Buddy Ryan (1986-1990). Rich Kotite (1991-1994).

Ray Rhodes (1995-1998). Andy Reid (1999- ). Herman Edwards. Irving Fryar.

Ricky Watters. Andre Waters. Troy Vincent. Charlie Garner.

Bill Romanowski. Mark Bavaro. Bobby Taylor. Dick Vermeil.

Buddy Ryan. Jerome Brown. Reggie White. Mike Mamula.

William Fuller. Stan Walters. Leonard Tose. Sonny Jurgenson.

Norm Van Brocklin. Chuck Bednarik. Roynell Young. William Thomas.

Byron Evans. Herschel Walker. Jim McMahon. Keith Byars.

Cris Carter. Randall Cunningham. Wilbert Montgomery. Bill Bergey.

Harold Carmichael. Mike Quick. Wes Hopkins. Seth Joyner.

Keith Jackson. Clyde Simmons. Eric Allen. Ron Jaworski.

99 Jerome Brown. 70 Al Wistert. 60 Chuck Bednarik. 44 Pete Retzlaff.

40 Tom Brookshier. 15 Steve Van Buren. Brian Westbrook. Darwin Walker.

Jeremiah Trotter. Lito Sheppard. Corey Simon. Jon Runyan.

Todd Pinkston. Terrell Owens. Donovan McNabb. Michael Lewis.

Jevon Kearse. Dhani Jones. Hugh Douglas. Brian Dawkins.

Sheldon Brown. David Akers. Steve Van Buren (1965) - 1944-1951. Pete Pihos (1970) - 1947-1955.

Earle Greasy Neale (1969) - 1941-1950. Tommy McDonald (1998) - 1957-1963. Sonny Jurgensen (1983) - 1957-1963. Mike Ditka (1988) - 1967-1968.

Bob Brown (NFL) (2004) - 1964-1968. Bert Bell (1963) - 1933-1940. Chuck Bednarik (1967) - 1949-1962.