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The History of the Philadelphia Eagles begins when the franchise was founded in 1933. [1] Since the team's establishment, the Eagles have appeared in five Super Bowls, losing their first two appearances, Super Bowl XV (1981) and XXXIX (2005) as well as their fourth, Super Bowl LVII (2022), and winning their third, Super Bowl LII (2017), and fifth, Super Bowl LIX (2024). [2]
The Eagles' 1960 season remains one of the most celebrated years in team history. Shaw, Van Brocklin, and Bednarik, each in their last season before retirement, led an Eagles team more notable for its grit than its talent. One observer later quipped that the team had "nothing but a championship" to its first division title since 1949.
He also owned Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia, the ballpark of the Phillies through 1970. [7] Wolman was also one of the founding owners, briefly in 1967, of the expansion Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. Over the next two years, his $100-million financial empire crumbled into bankruptcy, and he was forced to give up his ...
The NFL spent over a year searching for a new team to operate in Philadelphia. On July 9, 1933, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to Bert Bell and Lud Wray and awarded them the assets of the failed Yellow Jackets organization, with Bell and Wray naming their team the Eagles after the symbol of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. This has led to ...
The Eagles brought back Gardner-Johnson — who starred on their 2022 Super Bowl team — after a brief stint with the Detroit Lions on a three-year, $33 million deal.
In 1994, the Philadelphia Eagles were coming off a .500 season, finishing 8-8, and missing out on the playoffs. The team had a merry-go-round of quarterbacks that year with Bubby Brister, Randall ...
The Eagles joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1933. Currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC), the team has won five NFL titles and made five Super Bowl appearances ( 1980 , 2004 , 2017 , 2022 , and 2024 ), with their first Super Bowl victory coming in Super Bowl LII under ...
Eloise Brown, a Philadelphia native who turned 102 years old in December, has been alive 11 years longer than the city's NFL franchise has even existed – and a dedicated Eagles' fan since the 1960s.