#steagles

[yinzcantpark]

Way to go Eagles!

[365daysofsnark]

June 19

On June 19, 1943, the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers football teams merged for one season due to a player shortage during World War II. Sadly, the Philaburgh Eaglers never took off as a team, as no one really cared for the name.

[kagenoyurei]

Last night my dad was watching an NFL thing

And they were talking about how there was one year the Steelers and the Eagles didn't have enough players because most of them went off to fight in the war or something but they merged and were called The Steagles and I thought that sounded like a ship name Then I thought "are we gonna be shipping entire professional sports teams now?"

[stuft]

interesting sports fact:

8. Because they both lost so many players to WWII military service, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become the Steagles during the 1943 season.

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[thegraylot-blog]

The Odds Must Be Crazy**

I'm far from a gambling genius. I try to figure out complicated football betting strategies but numbers make my brain bad. If you're looking for fantastic gambling analysis, you're better off at VegasWatch. Just don't taunt him on Twitter, because he'll win. But as bad as I am at guessing, I'm still called to gaze at the odds each week. When I looked this week, I found something curious: The 3-1 Redskins are 1.5 point underdogs to the 1-4 Eagles at home. Now the Redskins being home underdogs is far from a new development. I guess a decade of losing completely winnable games against inferior opponents can eventually sway the smart money around year six. But the Skins being a home dog is strange given the relative confidence Vegas seems to have in the Skins being a better overall team than the Eagles. Right now the Redskins are 20-1 to win the Super Bowl, and the Eagles sit at 40-1. Just to win the NFC East, the Redskins are +150, while the Steagles' loser kid brothers are +300. If the Redskins are the favorite to win the division, shouldn't that imply an ability to hold serve at home against a struggling opponent? The Redskins have no major injuries of note, while both Trent Cole and Jason Peters are doubtful for the Eagles. I suppose the line difference could be due to favorable Eagles matchups, but hasn't the Eagles' big problem thus far been in stopping the run, the Redskins' only offensive strength? All of this, plus the fact that the line opened at Redskins -1 leads me to believe that the betting public has been hammering the Eagles, and that the public's memory consists of this play on loop, along with a chorus of "the Dream Team can't be THIS bad, can they?" And the one thing I do know about gambling is that the betting public is almost always wrong. I'm not smart enough to never bet on football, but I am smart enough to know that no matter how hard I try, I can't accurately predict the outcome of football games (#cognitivedissonance). However, if I'm choosing sides on this one, I'll be behind the guys who wrote the opening line and banking on the Skins eking one out the only way they know how. Disappointingly. **Hehhehheh. Good one Aceman. Original. Funny. (David Brent straightens tie)

[porterdavis]

Bet You Didn't Know™ (The History Channel)

Due to the lack of players available during World War II, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles football franchises temporarily merged into a single team, popularly known as the "Steagles."

[venomous19]

Fact Of The Night

During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

[pittsfinest-blog-blog]

1943- Pitt/Phil Steagles