The??Philadelphia Eagles??are among the favorites to win Against the 2020 Super Bowl??in Miami.
FanDuel Sportsbook??has the Birds.?? DraftKings Sportsbook has them.
And OK. They are not the top favorite by any means, but they are in the top six.
NFL betting apart, Eagles fans are well aware that winning this coveted name can take a long time to accomplish (excluding these three NFL championships before the Super Bowl was something ). The team held the Lombardi Trophy??for the first time.
But they’ve experienced debilitating losses along the way. There are more than 600 of them in franchise history.
Instead of listing each individual, we offer up the 10 worst declines in Eagles history.
That is, of course, a list. Feel free to disagree or agree.
Philadelphia fans get a bad rap nationally. Throwing snowballs at??Santa Claus??probably has a little something. The group entered the last game of the 1968 season with a 2-11 record. So the lovers didn’t have a lot to get excited about.
But the loss to the Minnesota Vikings??is not what folks are talking about decades later. This is actually the match after Santa got pelted with snowballs through halftime. There is a spoof of ESPN’s 30 for 30??about it.
The weather often becomes a factor in NFL games. It was surely the case with a??Dec. 31, 1988, playoff game at??Soldier Field. Instead of snow or rain ,??heavy fog??blanketed the arena, making visibility for fans and the players almost impossible in the next half.
To make things worse, the Eagles trailed and only scored nine first-half points from the Chicago Bears. The final score was 20-12, and some other championship hopes faded off in the fog.
Recall when the Eagles played with the Cincinnati Bengals? It’s tough to overlook 13-13’s rating. And the AFC North team entered the match with a 1-8 record. Yes, even upsets happen all of the time in soccer. However there was a problem that is bigger. It seems quarterback??Donovan McNabb??was not fully alert to the rules. Listen to him explain and try things.
The Eagles entered the 2018 season as the defending Super Bowl champions. And that name comes with high expectations. Alas, the group of a year failed to live up to those expectations.
They traveled to New Orleans??for a Nov. 18 game against the Saints, but there’s not any way of sugarcoating the outcome. The reduction is currently a part of??NFL history. Being the league champs to suffer a defeat that is 41-point is not something worth bragging about.
Believe it or not, the Saints match mentioned above isn’t the most lopsided loss on this list. The??42-0 conquer the??Seattle Seahawks, however, is.
Being on??Monday Night Football??simply made it worse. We are referring to the exact same Philadelphia franchise which had played in four straight NFC Championship games and was fresh off a Super Bowl appearance. The Dec. 5, 2005, loss dropped the Birds to 5-7 for the season.
The result spoiled what was presumed to be a really special night. Before the game, the company hailed the No. 92 jersey of former defensive end??Reggie White.
This one takes us back to Dec. 1, 1985. The Birds led the Minnesota Vikings 23-0 early in the third quarter. Quarterback??Ron Jaworski??(aka Jaws) had a blockbuster initial half of 204 passing yards and 2 touchdowns. Fans chalk up this one in the win column. That was until the Vikings scored 28 points and went on to win the game. It had been played in the Vet to make things worse.
The Eagles headed into the Super Bowl. They ended the??1980 season with a 12-4 record. It happened to be the same year that the Philadelphia Phillies??won their first??World Series.
The Eagles run that was great contained a triumph. But when Super Bowl XV gathered around two months after, the Black and Silver looked like a very different team. It showed in the last score.
Andy Reid (now the??Kansas City??Chiefs??head coach) is the winningest coach in Eagles history (130-93-1). His final game,??Dec. 30, 2012, against the??New York Giants, but was not so memorable. His team dropped 42-7??to finish fourth in the NFC East with a 4-12 record. Call it a sad, sad end to a tenure that was highlighted by five trips to the NFC Championship game and yet another Super Bowl appearance (see No. 1).
Like the stars were aligned in 2002, it seemed. The football occasion in Veterans Stadium background couldn’t have been bigger. The Eagles were hosting the Tampa Bay Bucs at the conference championship game. Plus the home team was favored by the temps. What could go wrong?
Nearly that, as the people and ultimate Super Bowl champs won easily, 27-10. Now Along with Eagles fans are haunted by also the 92-yard Ronde Barber interception return for a touchdown with 3:12 left in the match.
After the 2004 year came about, it seemed as though the time that was Eagles had arrived. The franchise sought its first Super Bowl title. Terrell Owens combination and the McNabb was one of the NFL’s best. The team ended the season 13-3. Combined that with a strong defense, and all the pieces seemed to be perfectly calibrated to win Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla..
Well, the Patriots and Tom Brady, who were chosen by 7, had other plans. Even the Birds ended up beating against the spread, but again fell short of their gold prize.
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