What if Ed Snider had owned the Eagles?

MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / Staff Photographer Flyers' chairman and co-founder Ed Snider, who died Monday, answered a reporter's questions in September 2003 in his office in what was then called the Wachovia Center. The arena is now called Wells Fargo Center. The coming week will feature many accolades for Flyers owner Ed Snider, who passed away Monday morning in California at age 83. Snider brought hockey, and then two Stanley Cups, to Philadelphia. But before that, he was vice president and treasurer of the Eagles, from 1963-67, under Eagles owner Jerry Wolman, Snider's then-partner in the building of the Spectrum and the birth of the Flyers.

Snider's role with the Eagles ended when he and Wolman…