Touring SB Nation, 09.19.08
by Ed Valentine on Sep 19, 2008 4:00 PM EDT
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Let's go Touring SB Nation and see what the other fine football writers around here have been talking about this week.
- Pride of Detroit says Lions' General Manager Matt Millen is sounding delusional about his team.
- Readers over at the Daily Norseman, our Minnesota Vikings' blog, aren't optimistic that changing quarterbacks will help the team.
- Buc 'Em says Tampa Bay players and coach Jon Gruden don't seem to be on the same page.
- The Falcoholic, our Atlanta Falcons site, thinks Kansas City coach Herman Edwards must want the Chiefs to lost this week.
- Turf Show Times is lobbying -- hard -- for the St. Louis Rams to begin their inevitable youth movement immediately.
- Behind the Steel Curtain, out Steelers blog, looks at a time during World War II when the Steelers and Eagles came together and played as the 'Steagles.' George, you will love this one.
- Battle Red Blog, which covers the Houston Texans, looks for silver linings despite Hurricane Ike.
- The Phinsider debates whether or not Chad Henne should eventually get some snaps at quarterback for the Miami Dolphins this season.
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Love the Steagles story
Thats good stuff right there
Giants fan from the womb to the tomb
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Sep 19, 2008 9:39 PM EDT reply actions
I was only ten in '43, but I remember the Steagles
Allie Sherman was their QB in the NFL. 5’8", but that was good enough for the NFL in war time. I believe Bucko Kilroy played for them as well. Without guys like Rooney, the NFL might never have made it. His players loved him, something rare, or perhaps totally absent these days.
I got really into NFL history last year
and read about the Steagles. Pretty interesting stuff. I really like that the next season the Steelers combined with the Cardinals and were officially called the Card-Pitts, but because they went 0-14, everyone started calling them the “Carpets” (Car-Pitt).
It’s funny that back then, they were two of the worst franchises in the NFL. 60 years later, the Steelers have won 5 Super Bowls and have only had 3 coaches in 30+ years, and are without a doubt one of the top franchises in the league, if not all sports. Meanwhile, the Cardinals – well, they’re STILL one of the two worst franchises in the NFL.
In the late forties,
the Eagles had the best team in football and won a few titles. Greasy Neale was a great coach and those teams boasted two HOFers, fast and powerful Steve Van Buren, RB and kick returner and Chuck Bednarick, Center and LB, who knocked Giff out of football for a year and a half. Neale was a great coach. The Eagles defeated the other half of the Carpets in one of those championship games. When the Cards were in St. Louis and had Jim Ray Hart at QB they always gave the Giants a hard time.
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