Don Cherry had played in Lincoln Financial Field before last Thursday's exhibition opener for the Eagles, but it wasn't quite the same thing when he was there with the Villanova Wildcats.
"This was a pretty amazing experience, all around," Cherry said after the game ended, after he had played about a third of the snaps at middle linebacker for an NFL team, after the kid who couldn't land a Division I scholarship kept his professional ambitions alive. "It felt great to match up against some of the kids I didn't get to play against in college."
After a great high school career in Trumbull, Conn.