For your Eagles posterity, here is a "Game Of The Week" highlight reel of a dramatic Eagles/Chiefs matchup from the first year that I started watching football.

10/22/1972:  Ed Khayat's Eagles(0-5) vs. Hank Stram's Chiefs(3-2).  The hapless Eagles jump out to a big lead, and have to fend off a late-game Chiefs rally.

Many things here that you will never see or hear again in football:  Extremely late hits with no flags, atrocious ball security, amateur, unpolished cheerleaders too close to the line of fire, along with a narrator making sexual innuendos to boot.

 

 

Oh Westy, I remember that game well. 

The Chiefs were an upper echelon team.  They won the SB a couple of years earlier (beat the Vikings which is always good for a laugh) and were in the AFCCG the year after.  It was the first meeting between the two team.  Eagles were winless and the game was in KC.  But the team had good receivers - Harold Jackson and Ben Hawkins.  Hawkins scores on a freak ricochet play, and Pete Liske connects on two bombs to Jackson.  Eagles go up 21-0.  They hold on to win 21-20. 

They were awful the rest of the year too.  Consolation prize was that they got to draft Jerry Sisemore who was a stud tackle for the team through the Vermeil era.  Also had the Chargers No. 1 pick from the Tim Rossovich trade and drafted TE Charle Young - who was an All Pro talent.  After Vermeil was hired, Eagles had a contract dispute with Young and the Rams had a similar issue with Ron Jaworski.  Eagles swapped Young's rights for Jaworski's rights.  So that crappy team wound up setting part of the foundation of Vermeil's Super Bowl team.

Incidentally the Eagles only other win that year was also by one point. Also against an AFC team. They beat the Houston Oilers 18-17 with six Tom Dempsey field goals.

The 1972 team was probably the worst Eagles team since I became a fan in '68. They lost a late season game to the Giants by more than fifty points. The only "away" Eagles game that was not televised locally. (There was some broadcast strike.) Had to listen to that crap on the radio.

On 2/10/2023 at 10:30 PM, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Incidentally the Eagles only other win that year was also by one point. Also against an AFC team. They beat the Houston Oilers 18-17 with six Tom Dempsey field goals.

The 1972 team was probably the worst Eagles team since I became a fan in '68. They lost a late season game to the Giants by more than fifty points. The only "away" Eagles game that was not televised locally. (There was some broadcast strike.) Had to listen to that crap on the radio.

Was that it, or the game did not sell out at Yankee Stadium (last full season the Giants played there with many season ticket holders by then refusing to go to games there, one of the reasons The Meadowlands was built)?  I believe that would have resulted in the game being blacked out in both New York and Philly because Philly is less than 75 miles from NYC.

Incidentally, the Giants were involved in the last NFL game not televised at all: November 1, 1975 against the Chargers at Shea Stadium.  Giants had to play that game on Saturday since that was one of two weeks the Jets and Giants were both at home (the other a week earlier when the Giants also played on Saturday against the Cardinals) and neither could use Shea while baseball was going on as the Mets and Yankees were in their second year of sharing Shea Stadium while Yankee Stadium was being remodeled (which began in September 1973 with the Giants playing their first two games then and then playing in the Yale Bowl for the rest of the 1973 and full 1974 seasons before playing at Shea in '75).  That was a situation where the Giants and Chargers both chose not to televise the game.