From the great SI Vault, one of the best Twitter accounts devoted to sports history, here’s the 1946 Eagles watching game film on a cramped airplane. Sixty-nine years is a long time. We’re now watching game film – if we are professional football players – on iPads in first class on chartered planes. But then, a drop down projection screen would have to do. You could also smoke on that plane, which will always sound insane to me.

And it looks like it worked:

The ’46 Eagles won their season opener against the Rams, then beat the Boston Yanks in week two on their way to a 6-5 season, the first .500 or more season for an Eagles head coach.