We’re in Dallas with Phans of Philly so obviously I had to go to one of the most popular sites in Dallas because if JFK was never assassinated in November of 1963 apparently he could’ve been the Eagles owner:

@crossingbroad

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Did you know JFK was thinking about going in on the Eagles with his two brothers? I didn’t, but it’s a true story.

Via Frank Fitzpatrick at the Inky:

In the 1990 book, Pro Football Chronicle, co-author Bob O’Donnell noted that the topic of the Eagles arose as the brothers relaxed in the Oval Office one day that October.

Since the president had pointed out that, if elected twice, he’d be only 51 when his second term concluded, the brothers casually contemplated future careers.

A sports-page junkie and football fanatic, JFK had read that the Eagles’ principal owner, James P. Clark, had recently died of a stroke. Reports said his team, just two years removed from an NFL championship, would be sold.

“Jack and Bobby,” O’Donnell wrote, “thought it would be a terrific investment.”

According to O’Donnell’s version, the president asked Ted to set up a meeting with Eagles management. The team’s president at the time was Frank McNamee, one of the “Happy Hundred” ownership group Clark had assembled in 1949.

That meeting never took place.

According to O’Donnell’s account, the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 scuttled whatever Eagles plans the Kennedys may have had.

So it wasn’t really Cowboys fan Lee Harvey Oswald who killed him, but it might as well been. A couple months after he was shot the Eagles were sold to Jerry Wolman for $5.5 million.

Do you think we’d have a bunch of Super Bowls or would Ted have drove them under?