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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.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) East Division. [2] The team has played its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia since 2003. [1]
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 Doug ...
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.
The prospect of a unified Pittsburgh-Philadelphia team actually predated World War II by several years. The Pennsylvania Keystoners were a team that was proposed in 1939, conceived with the intention of the Steelers and Eagles owners buying into one of the two teams, then spinning the other off to an ownership group in Boston, Massachusetts.
As the Philadelphia Eagles seek to dethrone the back-to-back NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl, the appearance is a testament to Eagles’ billionaire owner Jeffrey Lurie.
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.