PHILADELPHIA, PA—Just a short few years ago, everything made sense. NFL brothers in green were interlocked by arm, suffering as one.
The Philadelphia Eagles had never captured a Super Bowl. The Philly fan’s football fame to claim remained Norm Van Brocklin’s 1960 NFL Championship conquest.
The New York Jets had Joe Namath, and very little else. Much like the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns, this fraternity of longstanding franchises traveling a certain NFL path championship-less is painstakingly obvious.
But the Jets and Eagles, specifically, felt like a match made in football hell, a brotherhood of wild fanbases ready to explode at the drop of first success.