This season marks 15 years since the Birds did the impossible.
The Eagles were down 31-10 with a little over eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter against the Giants up in the swamps of Jersey. It was Week 15 of the 2010 campaign. Another season would be down the drain after early promise had everyone sucked into this team. It was the story of my life.
There were times when I was younger that if I was that frustrated with a game I may flat out turn it off or just go to bed at three 0’clock in the afternoon like a sick puppy. I just cared so much that, for a long time, the losses were just so, so brutal. This isn’t to say I had some grand thought that the greatest comeback in franchise history was about to happen, far from it. I’m glad I wasn’t a gigantic teenage baby that day.
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