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 The Philadelphia Eagles, a privately owned football team in the National Football league, is an enduring symbol of sports in the Delaware Valley region. The Eagles are not among the powerhouse teams in the NFL; they made one appearance in the Super Bowl and during the 1990s ranked last or near-last. Their playing field at the much-maligned Veterans Stadium, built in the 1970s, was considered dated only 25 years later. Yet Philadelphians have always treated the team with genuine affection, and Eagles fans are arguably among the most stalwart.The team that eventually evolved into the Eagles first appeared in a Philadelphia suburb in 1919, when a group called the Frankford Athletic Association founded the Frankford Yellow Jackets. The team played semi-professional football with neighboring teams until it joined the recently formed National Football League in 1924. The Yellow Jackets built a 10,000-seat field to accommodate fans.At that time, many states, including Pennsylvania, had what were known as "blue laws" on the books; these laws, which had their origins in Colonial times, prohibited certain activities on Sundays that could be considered disrespectful of the Christian Sabbath. Sporting events were among those prohibited activities. This created a double problem for many fledgling pro teams. Not only could they not play on Sundays, but if they played on Saturdays they often had to compete for an audience with college football games, which were often more popular. Teams like the Yellow Jackets found a partial solution to the problem by playing home games on Saturdays and scheduling away games with teams not subject to blue laws on Sundays.The Eagles came into existence in 1933 when De Benneville "Bert" Bell and Lud Wray purchased the franchise then known as the Frankford Yellow Jackets for $2,500. The Bell name was a venerable one in Philadelphia; Bell's grandfather had served in Congress and his father had been state attorney general. Bell himself played college football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he later coached; he also coached at nearby Temple University.The Yellow Jackets franchise was up for sale in 1933 and Bell was eager to acquire the team. He and his family had suffered huge financial losses during the stock market crash in 1929, but he had recently married a former Ziegfeld Follies actress who had managed to save some of her earnings. Bell and his partner Wray (who was bought out in 1936) got the franchise for $2,500.Almost immediately Bell moved the team to Philadelphia and he chose a new name, the Eagles, to honor the symbol of Franklin D. Roosevelt's new National Recovery Act. The first Eagles game was played on November 12, against the Chicago Bears. (The game ended in a tie, 3-3). Bell, who would later become NFL commissioner, took a long-term view of professional sports. It was Bell who in 1935 initiated the practice of an annual college draft, which he believed would spread talent evenly across all the teams in the league. In his book Pigskin: The Early Tears of Pro Football, Robert Peterson described Bell as "a jack of all trades." He was at various times a coach, scout, contract negotiator, press agent, ticket seller, janitor, and "gateman" for the team. He moved the team to Municipal Stadium, where it would remain for the next four years.
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