A Blast From The Past

Ta-Nehisi Coates was talking about John Madden this morning, and put up a link to an old NFL Today. I was watching it just to hear Brent Musberger say "You are looking live...", but then it broke into the story of how the Eagles almost left Philly when I was ten years old. To say that this would have killed a significant number of people in Philly is an understatement.



It's surreal watching Jimmy the Greek Snyder again as well. We definitely didn't hear the end of Phoenix as a landing site for an NFL team. And at the end of the day, this was definitely near the beginning of the obscene giveaways cities have made to sports teams.

But it's worth remembering for Philly fans that 25 years ago this week, we almost lost the Birds. For Eagles fans, as much as we complain about not having a title in forever, it's especially worth remembering that we almost lost them.