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The 1968 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 36th season in the National Football League (NFL). They failed to improve on their previous output of 6–7–1, winning only two games. Eagles fans expected to get O. J. Simpson if the team went winless, a finish of 2–12 was not enough to top futility due to the Buffalo Bills going 1 ...
The Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident was an incident that occurred during halftime of an American football game in the 1968 season of the National Football League (NFL) between the visiting Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles. The game itself is referred to as The Santa Claus Game. The incident occurred on December 15, 1968 ...
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]
(With the second pick, the Eagles chose Leroy Keyes, who played only four years in an Eagles uniform.) The last game of 1968, the Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident, played on December 15, helped cement the rowdy reputation of Philadelphia fans when some of them booed and threw snowballs at a fellow Eagles fan playing as Santa Claus. [20]
The 1968 NFL season was the 49th regular season of the National Football League. Per the agreement made during the 1967 realignment , the New Orleans Saints and the New York Giants switched divisions; the Saints joined the Century Division while the Giants became part of the Capitol Division.
From 1963-1965, Woodeshick was a backup running back, playing sparingly on offense and starting only 1 game. In 1966, he was given the opportunity to start four games and averaged 3.9 yards per carry in 85 rushing attempts. He became a full-time starter at fullback in 1967, averaging 4.3 yards in 155 carries, with six rushing touchdowns; as ...
Michael Owens/Getty Images UPDATE 1/15/24 at 2:21 p.m. ET: Author Jim Murphy reacted after A.J. Brown turned his book, Inner Excellence, into a viral sensation and the No. 1 hottest seller on Amazon.
This game, more lopsided than its score would indicate, was subsequently labeled the Body Bag Game in reference to the number of injuries Eagles players inflicted on the Redskins and the physically tough play of the Eagles in the game. In the game, the Eagles knocked out the starting Washington quarterback, and then seriously injured his ...