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The 1960 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League, and finished with the Eagles' win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFL championship game to get their third league title. The victory over the Packers was also the first and only playoff defeat of the Packers' Vince Lombardi's coaching career.
The Eagles have won five league titles, three of which (1948, 1949, and 1960) pre-date the existence of the Super Bowl. The fifth and most recent championship was Super Bowl LIX, the team's most recent Super Bowl appearance. [5] [6] The Eagles' five championships are tied for the sixth most total championships amongst all 32 NFL franchises. [7]
On December 26, 1960, one of the coldest days in recorded Philadelphia history, the Eagles faced Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in the 1960 NFL Championship Game and dealt the formidable Lombardi the sole championship game loss of his storied career. Bednarik lined up at center on offense and at linebacker on defense.
The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League. Before the season, on January 26, 33-year-old Pete Rozelle , the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams , was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty-third ballot.
It was performed at games by the Philadelphia Eagles' Sound of Brass band, which included 200 musicians and dancers. The song never caught on, especially during what was a bad era of Eagles' football.
The 1960 game represented a chance for Philadelphia to add to the consecutive titles in 1948 and 1949, but they had declined to only two wins in 1958. [7] Head coach Buck Shaw was in his third season with the Eagles, his final year as a head coach, and had turned around the team from a 2–9–1 record in 1958 to seven wins in 1959 to a ...
Conducted prior to the bowl games, the first was a six-round draft held by phone. The second was held on December 5 and 6, 1960 for rounds seven through thirty. The Denver Broncos selected New Mexico State's Bob Gaiters as the overall first draft pick. The Philadelphia Eagles lost its first-round pick to the AFL for the second year. About half ...
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 ...