Giants @ Eagles
Seating Capacity: 68,532
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Cost: $512M
First game: 17-0 Loss vs Tampa Bay Bucs
Eagles record at The Linc: 19-8-0
-Home to the Temple Owls Football team
-First event at The Linc was a preseason soccer match between Manchester United and FC Barcelona
-Home to the annual Army/Navy Football Game
-One of the original six NFL teams, the Giants have been around since 1925 and are the only one of the original six still around.
-Hold their training camp at the University of Albany
-Play all their games at Giants Stadium, ironically located in New Jersey.
Introduced a solid-red jersey with white lettering in week 12 of the 2004 season against the Philadelphia Eagles.
-The Eagles fight song originally contained the line "Score a touchdown green and white." Eagles owner Jeff Lurie had the full intention of using the fight song, but changed the lyrics to "Score a touchdown 1,2,3" since the Eagles uniforms now had silver.
-Before Bell and Wray bought the franchise that would become the Eagles, the team was known as the Frankford Yellow Jackets.
-In 14 NFL seasons, Eagles legend Chuck Bednarik only missed three games
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