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For No Reason, It’s the 1946 Eagles Watching Film on a Plane
By Jim Adair
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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:
@si_vault Seems to have worked as they won, 25-14.
— SportsPaper (@SportsPaperInfo) November 11, 2015
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.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.