1981 Philadelphia Eagles

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[@pinehawk9600]

Rest in peace to the late great John Facenda

[@juliansmith1951]

John Facenda & Harry Kalas are the greatest two narrators at NFL films Harry in the baseball Hall of Fame Ed Sabol made a great choice cause these 2 could narrate team highlights films John was great narrating super bowl highlights Harry was great narrating Inside the NFL highlights when the show was on HBO plus narrating NFL Game of the week in the mid 70s

[@MrZeldalove]

Classic Eagles uniforms.

[@Musicvidsetc]

Yes! Which they should bring back!

[@pp3k3jamail]

@@Musicvidsetc no they are hideous

[@Musicvidsetc]

@@pp3k3jamail They're awesome. They just need to be modernized and made more sleek. They would also have to fit tighter like modern unis; no loose sleeves flapping around like back then. But the Kelly Green jerseys w/ the silver pants w/ green and white stripes and the triple strike on the sleeves? That's just the best.

[@pp3k3jamail]

@@Musicvidsetc the big ass stripes on the sleeves are stupid-looking

[@nickj3513]

@@Musicvidsetc good comment 👍!!

[@conlanding]

The 1981 NFL season was the start of the decline of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1980s. The roster that GM Jim Murray and head coach Dick Vermeil helped build began to show their age especially after LB Bill Bergey retired after the 1980 season, DE Claude Humphrey followed after the 1981 season and LB John Bunting after the 1982 season.

[@TomG1555]

The lower draft position as the team got better didn't help, but as the team aged they also drafted pretty poorly from 1980-1985; on average, they got one legit starter out of each draft, where you really need to get at least 2-3 to even tread water. Whatever else Buddy was, there's little question he drafted/evaluated a lot better than the previous regime did. www.drafthistory.com/teams/eagles.html

[@nickj3513]

I heard the Eagles are going back to the kelly green and silver the 2021 season!!

[@SingleTax]

I'm convinced the '81 Eagles were a better team than the '81 Giants. Yet when they played the Giants in the playoffs, Eagle kick/punt returner, Wally Henry, fumbled the ball, not once, but twice -- the second being recovered for a touchdown. That's what made the difference in the game. Had the Eagles not choked against the Giants, they would have played the 49ers the following week. That would have been a very interesting match-up.

[@TomG1555]

Over their last 5 games of that season, the Eagles were 1-4 while the Giants were 4-1, and the Giants had beaten the Eagles in their last head-to-head matchup. Overall the Eagles may have been better, but for that game it was a hot team going up against a struggling team, and that's how it played out.

[@1USACitizen192]

Steelers would have CRUSHED both teams

[@djkaka020772]

I was 8 years old and still remember Wally Henry dropping those kickoffs

[@JimmyH91]

Yup we gift wrapped that game for the Giants before the first quarter was even over

[@whataboutrob442]

@@1USACitizen192 They sucked most of the 80s.

[@josephfbuffa5246]

Best uniforms they’ve ever wore. Hope they go to this kelly green version next season 🙏🏻

[@raymondwhite8420]

Shoot.. I remember that ‘81 team. Went to the last game of the regular season against the Cardinals. Eagles blew them out.. must have been 5 below wind chill. My old man said we weren’t leaving so I spent half the game standing in the John trying to stay warm..

[@jimdonovan5861]

38-0 ... that game was blacked out in Philadelphia. Still hard to believe they came out of the gate so fast then cratered.

[@tommythomason6187]

Those were great uniforms the Eagles had from 1974-1984. That defense was as tough as the Steelers, and running outside on them was mainly futile.

[@kerryc.7438]

I remember that game me and my brother would walk away from our dad in section 728 and walk all the way down there was a place where you could see the players walking into the locker room at half time and a couple of fans yelling “Wally Henry sucks! “ I was 9 and remember it like it was last week.

[@whataboutrob442]

I'm the same way with Football memories.

[@markm.j.lewandowskijr1171]

@ 9:32 The "You play to win the game" guy 😂

[@bonesmccoy4407]

Eagles had better point differential than any other NFL team in 81...including 49ers...2 losses came from missed/botched field goals at the end of 2 games... Winning those 2 games would have made them the second seed instead of the cowboys...I have no doubt eagles would have crushed buccaneers in divisional... Conference championship vs 49ers would have been a terrific game I have no doubt

[@wildwest1]

That season was great, then fell apart.

[@wildforthecats661]

wildwest1 Yes, Birds were 9-2, then the roof caved in.

[@howardcosell2022]

Just like the 2023 Eagles

[@juliuskurtz8143]

81 eagles tail spin went on for 7 yrs after that wild card lost to the giants

[@MIKELIN8]

Same stuff today as then...everybody doesn't like the Eagles because they're winning.

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

The voice of God, John facenda could read the phone book, it would brilliant

[@conlanding]

If you take the Eagles record from their final 10 regular season games in 1981, (4-6, 0-1 in playoffs) including the playoff loss to the N.Y. Giants along with the 1982 (3-6) & 1983 (5-11) seasons, the Eagles went a combined 12-24.

[@howardcosell2022]

Similar to the 2023 Eagles

[@theolee3851]

Thoes uniforms were spot on 0n time👍

[@MGAF688]

Every time the Eagles have made a Super Bowl, the next season someone from the NFC West wins the NFC and someone from the AFC Central (now North) wins the AFC. 2018 likely will follow the same pattern. Rams vs Steelers in the Super Bowl.

[@spinner9057]

Please, it's gonna be Rams vs. Ravens. Lamar Jackson's taking Baltimore to the promised land! GO EAGLES!!!!

[@madrecka]

Don't you want your Eagles to repeat as Super Bowl Champs???

[@spinner9057]

That would be nice. Of course, I was kinda being sarcastic about the Rams and Ravens lol.

[@Musicvidsetc]

Rams vs. Steelers? It's 1979 all over again, baby! Bring back disco! Fleetwood Mac reunion tour!

[@MGAF688]

@@Musicvidsetc Well it ended up being half-right. Eagles went to SB XV and the Niners went to SB XVI. Eagles went to SB XXXIX and the Seahawks went to SB XL. Eagles went to SB LII and the Rams went to SB LIII.

[@schnuurtchke]

They didn’t make the playoffs again. Next time was in 1988, but at that time it was a different Eagles team. Vermeil’s Philadelphia Eagles teams were great teams who peaked at the wrong time.

[@howardcosell2022]

What about Nick Sirianni?

[@schnuurtchke]

@@howardcosell2022 He’s their coach now and I see similarities between this Eagles team and the 1980 Eagles team that won the division and got to Super Bowl, just like the Eagles did last year, and this team that made the Super Bowl last year and had the season they had this year. In 1981 defending NFC champs Eagles, started the season 7-1 and finished 10-6 and lost 3 of last 4 and lost the wildcard game. This year’s Eagles started 10-1 and finished 11-6, losing 5 of 6

[@jerryashlock5519]

Polish Rifle !! # 7

[@denimchicken104]

#1 defense and a top 10 offense, wasted by special teams mishaps. I never hear anything about this lost team. Damn shame how it went down.

[@whataboutrob442]

What happened to the Eagles after Superbowl XV?

[@TomG1555]

Short answer: they got old. If you look at the '83 roster, there's a lot of the same starters as in '80, except they'd all gotten older and not as good anymore. The '80, '81 and '82 drafts were pretty much wastelands, even with drafting Roynell Young in '80 and Mike Quick in '82. So, the decline was pretty much inevitable, regardless of whether Vermeil burned out or not.

[@DNSKansas]

Bill Bergey retired after Super Bowl XV. and Claude Humphrey after '81. That was that for the defense. In 1983 came one of the worst first round draft picks ever, Michael Haddix. Could have had Kelly or Marino to take over from Jaworski. Or Darrell Green. Or Bruce Matthews.

[@whataboutrob442]

@@TomG1555 So he wasn't smart enough to draft for the future? Either that or he was "George Allen-ing' the young players. Something doesn't seem right since we know Dick returned and got his ring. Maybe he knew that he would get it if he got that "Air Coryell" offense. Makes ya think...

[@whataboutrob442]

@@DNSKansas So Bill was the lifeblood of that defense? I know that name for sure, and I didn't start watching until 1976-ish. But Bergey was popular!

[@TomG1555]

@@whataboutrob442 Playoff success = poorer draft position, was part of it. Also, the guys who should have been in their prime in '81-'84 would have come from the late '70s drafts, and for a lot of those, there were very few high draft picks b/c a lot of them had been traded away for guys like Bergey, Gabriel, etc. during the McCormick years. Of the high picks in the early '80s, there were a few good ones (Quick, R. Young, Hopkins) but more bad (L. Mitchell, Haddix, L. Sampleton, D. Miraldi, etc.), which didn't help things either. Vermeil did a great job with what he had, considering he inherited a bad team that was draft pick poor and built them into a Super Bowl team. Eventually the toll for all that damage in the draft would come due, and that fell mostly on Marion Campbell to sort out.

[@marvingarriss141]

At least nba 2k games when they have classic teams and legends players they will call their name when they shoot the ball and score in the games

[@sethkershner3481]

8:51 ... #22 knocks himself out on this play

[@pinehawk9600]

Who is 22

[@howardcosell2022]

Take the same video and rename it the 2023 Philadelphia Eagles

[@JesusTapdancingChristOnaCross]

8:42 Song title?

[@user-co1gi7yd2r]

Definitely my favourte nfc east team

[@pinehawk9600]

I love blue collar cold weather teams.. Pittsburgh Philadelphia green bay NY

[@marvingarriss141]

Madden shouldn’t classic uniforms in the game, wtf they can’t even get the madden 21 on next gen fix,

[@stevep8445]

Smiths catch, not a catch today

[@dgendvil]

Too bad they didn't win the NFC that year....

[@DNSKansas]

Eagles would have been mauled by Montana and the 49ers in the divisional playoffs anyway

[@DNSKansas]

600 yards and 34 first downs vs. the Colts? What was so impressive about that? The 1981 Colts had the NFL's worst defense ever.

[@pp3k3jamail]

Right

[@bgraham928]

David Steinle The 1981 Baltimore Colts gave up enough yardage to form another continent.

[@friendlywalrus6971]

Still more yards than any other team got against them that year..

[@williamstocker584]

Whatever you say whitey