Kingspoint
01-15-2024, 08:55 PM
Norm Snead is why the Eagles were always my favorite National Football Conference team (Bengals, of course, being my favorite overall).
Like many Quarterbacks of his time, he himself was very good, but he didn't have the quality of players around him as some of the teams that regularly made the playoffs did. This was in the days where O-linemen could play together for 5-10 years, establishing excellent Offensive Lines, which made it difficult for other squads catch up to their standards of excellence.
Snead, Jim Hart, Sonny Jurgensen (who the Eagles traded to the Redskins for Norm Snead) all tried to keep pace with the dynasty that Tom Landry was building in Dallas, but each year got further and futher behind them. Snead would pull off the occasional upset with fantastic performances against the Cowboys, paving the way for those Eagles teams that came after him to begin to compete more regularly with players like Randall Cunningham and Ron Jaworski. Though it wasn't until Vince Lombardi took over the Redskins that a true challenger matched up with Dallas, and after Lombardi's health caused him to leave the Redskins, George Allen built a bridge to what Lombardi started and Joe Gibbs finished the job with the help of Joe Theismann. Gibbs had still failed to beat the Cowboys in his first two regular seasons, but finally got his first win against them in the NFC Championship Game during his 2nd season at the helm of the Redskins, beating them 31-17 and finishing off the strike-shortened season by beating the Dolphins in the Super Bowl.
But, it was still Norm Snead why I liked the Eagles over any other team in the NFC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Snead
Snead has the distinction of being traded for two Hall-of-Fame Quarterbacks as he was later traded from the Vikings to the Giants for Fran Tarkenton.
Like many Quarterbacks of his time, he himself was very good, but he didn't have the quality of players around him as some of the teams that regularly made the playoffs did. This was in the days where O-linemen could play together for 5-10 years, establishing excellent Offensive Lines, which made it difficult for other squads catch up to their standards of excellence.
Snead, Jim Hart, Sonny Jurgensen (who the Eagles traded to the Redskins for Norm Snead) all tried to keep pace with the dynasty that Tom Landry was building in Dallas, but each year got further and futher behind them. Snead would pull off the occasional upset with fantastic performances against the Cowboys, paving the way for those Eagles teams that came after him to begin to compete more regularly with players like Randall Cunningham and Ron Jaworski. Though it wasn't until Vince Lombardi took over the Redskins that a true challenger matched up with Dallas, and after Lombardi's health caused him to leave the Redskins, George Allen built a bridge to what Lombardi started and Joe Gibbs finished the job with the help of Joe Theismann. Gibbs had still failed to beat the Cowboys in his first two regular seasons, but finally got his first win against them in the NFC Championship Game during his 2nd season at the helm of the Redskins, beating them 31-17 and finishing off the strike-shortened season by beating the Dolphins in the Super Bowl.
But, it was still Norm Snead why I liked the Eagles over any other team in the NFC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Snead
Snead has the distinction of being traded for two Hall-of-Fame Quarterbacks as he was later traded from the Vikings to the Giants for Fran Tarkenton.