Facts and Articles
Seating Capacity: 68,542
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Cost: $512M
First game: 17-0 Loss to Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Eagles Record at The Linc: 21-10-0
-Home to Temple Owls football team
-Home to annual Army/Navy Football game
-First event at The Linc was an exhibition soccer match between Manchester United and FC Barcelona
-After 1945, the Redskins' front office was very opposed to racially integrating the team. They would be the last team in football to integrate after President Kennedy threatened not to let the team play in DC until they integrated.
-Legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi coached the Redskins for one year before his death from cancer in 1970.
-Redskins coach Joe Gibbs is more than just a good football coach. Gibbs is the creator of his own NASCAR team and runs it with his son J.D. The Gibbs team has won three NASCAR championships with Bobby Labonte, Tony Stewart, and Denny Hamlin.
-Extremely wealthy owner Dan Snyder is worth over a billion dollars and dropped out of University of Maryland when he was 20.
-While in college at UMiami, former Eagles DE Jerome Brown led a walkout during a dinner with the Penn State football team prior to the Fiesta Bowl in 1987. Brown was quoted as screaming "Did the Japanese go sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?" Penn State won the game 14-10.
-Donovan McNabb's high school, Mt. Carmel HS in Illinois has it's share of athletes including: NFL players Simeon Rice, Steve Edwards; NHL player Chris Chelios, and MLB player Denny McLain.
-McNabb is the fourth QB in Eagles history to pass for over 3000 yards in consecutive seasons. The other three are Sonny Jurgensen, Ron Jaworski, and Randall Cunningham.
-Eagles kicker David Akers is currently ranked second on the University of Louisville's all-time scoring list with 219 points.
