The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

They are current members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference (NFC), the team has won three NFL titles and made two Super Bowl appearances (1980 and 2004).

With the Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise remaining dormant for an extended time, Bert Bell purchased the rights to a Philadelphia franchise in 1933.

Named for a symbol of FDR's New Deal, the Philadelphia Eagles began play.

Many Eagles players have made the NFL Hall of Fame including Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Reggie White, Steve Van Buren, Tommy McDonald, Earle "Greasy" Neale, Pete Pihos, Sonny Jurgensen and Norm Van Brocklin.

In 1943, when manpower shortages stemming from World War II made it impossible to fill the roster, the team temporarily merged with the Pittsburgh Steelers to form a team known as "the Phil-Pitt Steagles.

The merger, never intended as a permanent arrangement, was dissolved at the end of the 1943 season. By the late 1940s, head coach Earle "Greasy" Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949.

In January 1983, Tose announced that his daughter, Susan Fletcher, the Eagles' vice president and legal counsel, would eventually succeed him as primary owner of the Eagles.

From 1988 to 1996, the Philadelphia Eagles qualified for the playoffs during 6 out of those 9 seasons, but they won the NFC East only once, in 1988.

Beautiful Day 2004 NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles