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The Jeffrey Lurie Section of the Eagles Media Guide is One Giant Flex
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The Birds’ PR staff sent out the 2025 media guide to all of the scribes, TV stations, and irreverent sports blogs in the greater Delaware Valley on Tuesday. We all know that the defending Super Bowl champs are one of the model NFL franchises, but the Jeffrey Lurie section of the guide is one humongous flex, full of great statistics and factoids that really reinforce the message:
Right off the bat it lists all of the NFC East titles, all of the championship game appearances, Super Bowl appearances, and Super Bowl wins. Then it says the Eagles are one of just three NFL teams with four Super Bowl appearances over the last 20 years, joining only the Patriots and Chiefs on that plateau.
Factoids littered throughout remind readers that:
- the Eagles have the second-most conference title game appearances since 2001 (8)
- they have the most NFC East titles in that same time frame (11)
- they have the third-most playoff appearances since 2000 (17, just behind the Packers and Patriots)
- there have been 20 playoff victories since 2000 (2nd most)
- they have the 5th-highest winning percentage since 2000 (.599)
- they are tied for fourth-most winning seasons since 1995 (20)
There’s an entire paragraph in there about the Eagles Autism Foundation, which has raised more than $40 million since 2019. It talks about the new autism center at CHOP, the launch of the girl’s flag football program, pandemic relief efforts, various awards presented to the organization, and the Go Green initiative as well. It’s like a Wikipedia page on steroids. Apparently the Eagles record since Lurie took over in 1994 is 304-231-3, and 56 of those losses took place in the nineties. It’s an overall winning percentage of .565 in the Lurie era, brought down online by the stinky outliers that predated Big Red.
Again – nothing we didn’t already know here, but you lose sight of the bigger picture perhaps. All of those years they were trying to win that first Super Bowl, they were getting really damn close and racking up regular season and playoff wins along the way. So now it’s really crested for the Birds, who have two rings to go along with everything they built in the early part of the 2000s. They’ve been a top NFL team for 25 years now, right up there with franchises like the Packers and Steelers and Ravens. Nobody touched the Patriots, obviously, and the Chiefs were threatening a dynasty of their own, but the Birds are way ahead of 85% of the league, especially the Cowboys.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com