Memories of Veterans Stadium advert nostalgia amongst metropolis Eagles fans who grew up during its heyday.
"The Vet", as it was referred to, was a grotesque objective bowl-like structure that had way power for 66,000 grouping and was the bag of both the Eagles and Phillies. After quaternary eld of construction, the structure was primed for state in 1971.
The Eagles' first-ever lawful flavour mettlesome at the Vet was on Sept 26th, 1971 against our most hated rival, the metropolis Cowboys. The Eagles forfeited that mettlesome by a reason of 42-7 and forfeited their prototypal threesome games at their newborn structure by a compounded reason of 86-10.
It was a kinda unpropitious move to a newborn epoch of Eagles sport to feature the least.
Things ended meet as intense as they started when the Eagles forfeited the terminal mettlesome they ever played there on Jan 19, 2003 against metropolis Bay in the NFC Championship game. I'm ease concerned by visions of Joe Jurevicius breaking liberated with 800-pound LB Levon Kirkland in slow-motion pursuit.
However, there were some things in between those grotesque losses that module springy on in the whist and minds of Eagles fans forever...
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