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The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Eagles have won three NFL titles and made two 1980 to the Oakland Raiders and 2004 to the New England Patriots ).

The club was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Bert Bell purchased the rights to a Philadelphia franchise from the league.

Eagles players who have been inducted to the Chuck Bednarik , Bob Brown , Pete Pihos , Sonny Jurgensen and Norm Van Brocklin . Bell was also inducted as a contributor.

Franchise history 1931 60

Midway through the 1931 season , the Frankford Yellow Jackets went bankrupt and ceased operations. After more than a year of searching for a suitable replacement, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to a syndicate headed by Bert Bell and Blue Eagle insignia of the National Recovery Act the centerpiece of President New Deal Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles . Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the afore-mentioned period of dormancy. Furthermore, almost no Yellow Jackets players were on the Eagles' first roster. The Eagles, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds , joined the NFL as .

In 1937, the Eagles moved to Shibe Park and played their home games at the stadium through 1947, except for the 1941 season, which was played at , where they had played from 1936 to 1939. (Shibe Park was renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1954.)

To accommodate football at Shibe Park during the winter, management set up stands in right field, parallel to Twentieth Street. Some twenty feet high, these "east stands" had twenty-two rows of seats. The goalposts stood along the first base line and in left field. The uncovered east stands enlarged capacity of Shibe Park to over thirty-nine thousand, but the Eagles rarely drew more than twenty-five to thirty thousand.

1961 84 1985 93 Lurie era (1994 present) Season-by-season records Rivalries Giants Cowboys Logo and uniforms Training camp Fight song Eagles fans Eagles Cheerleaders Charitable activity Eagles Fly for Leukemia, Ronald McDonald Houses Eagles Youth Partnership Current roster Philadelphia Eagles roster

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QuarterbacksOffensive LinemenLinebackersReserve ListsList of Philadelphia Eagles players (past and present) Awards and honors Retired numbers Eagles Hall of Fame 2012 75th anniversary team John Wanamaker Athletic Award (Philadelphia Sports Congress) See footnote Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame See: Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame#Football Coaches of note Current staff Radio and television Eagles Radio Affiliates See also Notes and references

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