A BURNED-OUT Dick Vermeil did Marion Campbell no favors in January of 1983 when he abruptly resigned as the Eagles' coach and recommended to owner Leonard Tose that Campbell replace him.
Vermeil left Campbell, who passed away last week at the age of 87, an aging team that was on the decline. Many of the key players that had helped the Eagles make it to the Super Bowl in 1980 were either gone or on the downside of their careers.
"His head coaching experience (with the Eagles and twice with the Atlanta Falcons) never was what it could have been because he was always taking over for somebody who left or got fired,'' Vermeil said Monday.