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The Eagles Now Have an All-Time Winning Record

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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The Eagles are now 640-639-27 in the franchise’s lifetime. Two Super Bowl titles, nine NFC Championship game appearances, and 15 NFC East titles is pretty good for an average franchise:

The 2000s have done the heavy lifting of course. We sit 244-160-2 since the turn of the century. The winning percentage by decade though is neck and neck. The Andy Reid era had a .647 winning percentage. Halfway through the 2020s, the Birds sit with a .634 winning percentage under Nick Siriani and one four-win season with Doug Pederson. The Eagles of the 2000s had to claw out of the mediocrity from the decades before them. When they were announced as a team in the 1930s they finished with a record of 18-55-3! They lost their first game ever 56-0 to the Giants and didn’t win more than four games in the first 10 seasons. Eagles fans must’ve been sending the most vile telegrams to whatever sports talk radio was back then. The best winning decade the Eagles had post-World War II, but before the 2000s was .507 in the 1980s. No wonder these Boomers that call into WIP are so pissed off. They grew up with average football. The only thing they could hang their hats on was a Super Bowl appearance in the 80s that they scored a measly 10 points in. I saw four straight NFC Championships and a Super Bowl appearance before puberty. By the time kids today are out of diapers they already have two Super Bowls. It’s nuts how much the pendulum has swung. We no longer have a reason to be miserable (we’ll find a way). Anyone under 40 can’t really grasp how depressing Sundays were back in the day. The Eagles from 1980-1999 would be the equivalent of being a Chargers or Falcons fan today. Full of mediocrity, underachieving, slight moments of hope, and an embarrassing Super Bowl loss. Now it feels like every couple of years Eagles fans are climbing greased up poles and partying on Broad Street. The 2020s is probably the best run in franchise history and we’re not even done it yet.

Here’s how other teams in Philadelphia stack up lifetime:

The losing-est franchise in sports history, the Phillies, sit with a 10,296-11,387 record and would need a miracle to ever climb out of that hole.

The Flyers, on the other hand, have a solid record of 2206-1608, almost 600 games over .500.

The Sixers also have a winning percentage above .500 at 3125-2898 lifetime.

The Union are a respectable 202-140-183.

Finally, one of the greatest franchises in pro sports history, the Philadelphia Soul, finished with a winning percentage over .600. Long live the two-time Arena Bowl Champs!

Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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