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The History of the Philadelphia Eagles begins when the franchise was founded in 1933. [1] Since the team's establishment, the Eagles have appeared in five Super Bowls, losing their first two appearances, Super Bowl XV (1981) and XXXIX (2005) as well as their fourth, Super Bowl LVII (2022), and winning their third, Super Bowl LII (2017), and fifth, Super Bowl LIX (2024). [2]
A flag football game between the staff of The Howard Stern Show and a team of drag queens. [60] XLII: 2008 Animal Planet: Puppy Bowl IV [40] [51] Seen by an average of 1.1 million viewers, an increase of 35% from the previous year. [61] Spike: Major League Eating Chowdown
Ain'ts: [1] Nickname given to the New Orleans Saints after their 1980 season of 14 consecutive losses. The name persisted somewhat as, although they would later qualify for the playoffs several times since then, they did not win a playoff game until their defeat of the defending Super Bowl champion Rams in the wild-card round of the 2000–01 playoffs.
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]
In 2010, Nielsen reported that 51% of viewers prefer the commercials to the game itself. [1] This article does not list advertisements for a local region or station (e.g. promoting local news shows), pre-kickoff and post-game commercials/sponsors, or in-game advertising sponsors and television bumpers. [2]
The program broke ground in a number of ways: it was the first live pre-game show, the first to show halftime highlights of other games televised by CBS, and the first to wrap-up as a post-game show. CBS also began referring to its stadium studios or its pre-game set, previously known as "CBS Control," as the "CBS Sports Center".
The first flag called "Ol' Crimson" was created by Tom Pounds' wife Syndie. [6] Tom then drove to Austin, Texas to fly the flag in the background of College GameDay's broadcast ahead of a 2003 game between the Kansas State Wildcats and the Texas Longhorns, in an attempt to convince the program to visit a game at WSU's campus in Pullman, Washington. [7]
In 1907 at Champaign, Illinois Chicago and Illinois played in the first game to have a halftime show featuring a marching band. [97] Chicago won 42–6. On November 25, 1911 Kansas and Missouri played the first homecoming football game. [98] The game was "broadcast" play-by-play over telegraph to at least 1,000 fans in Lawrence, Kansas. [99]