We all know the significance of 1960 around here. It has become a haunting number that represents the last year the Eagles won an NFL championship. Most of you reading this were not alive or are at least too young to remember Chuck “Concrete Charlie” Bednarik driving Green Bay’s Jim Taylor into the turf at Franklin Field before colorfully announcing that the game was over.
This might be blasphemy, but in the modern-day NFL, the last Eagles title hardly seems to count because they were not keeping track of championships by Roman numerals in those days. Google NFL champions by year, and the first item to come up is a list of Super Bowl champions.