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The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
With the Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise remaining dormant for an extended time, Bert Bell purchased the rights to a Philadelphia franchise in 1933. Named for a symbol of FDR's New Deal, the Philadelphia Eagles began play. The Eagles enjoy a reputation of being a hard-hitting, tough football team, with an even tougher home crowd. Many Eagles players have made the NFL Hall of Fame including Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Reggie White, Steve Van Buren, Tommy McDonald, Earle "Greasy" Neale, Pete Pihos, Sonny Jurgensen and Norm Van Brocklin. Owner and NFL Commisioner Bert Bell was also inducted.
The Eagles begin each season with summer training camp at the football facilities of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, located about 50 miles north of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Eagles training camp in Bethlehem is notable for routinely drawing some of the largest and most enthusiastic crowds of any NFL team's training camp,[1] with crowds typically exceeding 10,000 and sometimes as many as 20,000 to the Eagles' twice-daily training camp practices.
Eagles fans' devotion to their team is reflected by ticket sales: games are invariably sold out, and the waiting list for season tickets numbers 60,000.[2] In June 2006, tickets for home games were sold out in a matter of minutes after phone and internet lines opened.[3] Despite finishing with a 6-10 record in the 2005-2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales the following year.[3]
Eagles fans have become notorious in the NFL for their enthusiasm, knowledge and team loyalty, and sometimes also for their bad behavior. Eagles' fans enthusiastically embrace hard-edged, dedicated play, but they have also turned quickly against teams perceived as lacking a sufficient commitment to winning.
Currently members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference (NFC), the team has won three NFL titles and made two Super Bowl appearances (1980 and 2004).
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ News - Philadelphia Eagles
- ^ "Front Office Bio - Joe Banner". PhiladelphiaEagles.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-22.
- ^ a b Berman, Zack (2006-06-14). "Single Game Tickets Sold Out!". PhiladelphiaEagles.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-22.
