Eagles' 4-season run, playoff appearances (dating back to 1978-1979 aeason) was snapped that 1982-1983 season. They wouldn't see llnd season action again till 1988-1989 season
The Eagles 1982 "The Strangest Season" was the last one for Dick Vermeil as Eagles HC. He did return to the coaching ranks in 1997 with the then-St. Louis Rams (now LA Rams) and led the Rams to a Super Bowl championship (SB XXXIV) before retiring after SB XXXIV only to return in 2001 with the Kansas City Chiefs before retiring for good in 2005. in between his Eagles and Rams HC stints, Vermeil spent the 1983 thru 1996 seasons as a football game commentator for CBS and ABC.
Dick Vermeil was a great college or pro football analyst for both cbs & abc his great work when was a college football analyst at abc working with Brent Musburger he knew what your favorite color was
@@juliansmith1951 , when Vermeil became a NFL game analyst for CBS in 1983, he first worked alongside Frank Glieber. Summerall and Madden was CBS' #1 NFL broadcast team - but during the 1983 and 1984 seasons, the Glieber and Vermeil broadcast team was just as good as Summerall-Madden and Enberg-Olsen on NBC.
@@russellpavlov1343 After the tragic death of Frank Gielber in 1985 on cbs Dick Vermeil worked with baseball Hall of fame announcer The great Jack Buck Hank Stram for the NFC divisional playoff game between the Dallas cowboys & Los Angeles Rams
The 7 games that the strike wiped out for Philadelphia were: Week 3 - Rams @ Eagles Week 4 - Eagles @ Packers Week 5 - Eagles @ Steelers (Mon.) Week 6 - Cowboys @ Eagles Week 8 - Eagles @ Cardinals Week 9 - Lions @ Eagles Week 10 - Eagles @ Falcons (Mon.) (To this day, the Eagles & Steelers have never played on Monday Night Football. Every game since 1963 has been played on a Sunday afternoon.) To salvage 1 week's worth of games, the NFL extended the regular season by 1 week, sacrificing the usual off week before the Super Bowl. The game that was salvaged for the Eagles was their Week 7 game vs the Giants, which they lost, 26-24 to end the season.
@@conlanding It was September 1984. In our school there was a rumor that Harry Kalas died and when he didn't narrate the week 5 highlights, we all thought it was true. Found out Kalas was doing the '84 MLB playoffs and couldn't commit to the NFL announcing, so we were relieved he was still alive. We knew someone related NFL Films has passed away but back then it was really hard to know w/o the internet. Unfortunately is was John Facenda - who was a legend.
Eagles' 4-season run, playoff appearances (dating back to 1978-1979 aeason) was snapped that 1982-1983 season. They wouldn't see llnd season action again till 1988-1989 season
N.F.L.'s 1982-1983 season's most remembered for nearly 2 month-long work stoppage due to labor dispute
Talk about false advertising: The title of this is “The Strangest Season,” not the “Strongest” - because of the 56-day players strike.
Gotta love these old school nfl films
The Eagles 1982 "The Strangest Season" was the last one for Dick Vermeil as Eagles HC. He did return to the coaching ranks in 1997 with the then-St. Louis Rams (now LA Rams) and led the Rams to a Super Bowl championship (SB XXXIV) before retiring after SB XXXIV only to return in 2001 with the Kansas City Chiefs before retiring for good in 2005. in between his Eagles and Rams HC stints, Vermeil spent the 1983 thru 1996 seasons as a football game commentator for CBS and ABC.
Dick Vermeil was a great college or pro football analyst for both cbs & abc his great work when was a college football analyst at abc working with Brent Musburger he knew what your favorite color was
@@juliansmith1951 , when Vermeil became a NFL game analyst for CBS in 1983, he first worked alongside Frank Glieber. Summerall and Madden was CBS' #1 NFL broadcast team - but during the 1983 and 1984 seasons, the Glieber and Vermeil broadcast team was just as good as Summerall-Madden and Enberg-Olsen on NBC.
@@russellpavlov1343 After the tragic death of Frank Gielber in 1985 on cbs Dick Vermeil worked with baseball Hall of fame announcer The great Jack Buck Hank Stram for the NFC divisional playoff game between the Dallas cowboys & Los Angeles Rams
Don't you think we know this already??
He was a great commentator especially great a college football analyst on ABC
The 7 games that the strike wiped out for Philadelphia were:
Week 3 - Rams @ Eagles
Week 4 - Eagles @ Packers
Week 5 - Eagles @ Steelers (Mon.)
Week 6 - Cowboys @ Eagles
Week 8 - Eagles @ Cardinals
Week 9 - Lions @ Eagles
Week 10 - Eagles @ Falcons (Mon.)
(To this day, the Eagles & Steelers have never played on Monday Night Football. Every game since 1963 has been played on a Sunday afternoon.)
To salvage 1 week's worth of games, the NFL extended the regular season by 1 week, sacrificing the usual off week before the Super Bowl. The game that was salvaged for the Eagles was their Week 7 game vs the Giants, which they lost, 26-24 to end the season.
The last Eagles highlight film narrated by John Facenda
Super Bowl 18 was the last NFL highlight film narrated by John Facenda.☹️
@@conlanding It was September 1984. In our school there was a rumor that Harry Kalas died and when he didn't narrate the week 5 highlights, we all thought it was true. Found out Kalas was doing the '84 MLB playoffs and couldn't commit to the NFL announcing, so we were relieved he was still alive. We knew someone related NFL Films has passed away but back then it was really hard to know w/o the internet. Unfortunately is was John Facenda - who was a legend.
@@conlanding John Facenda passed away in 1984.
I was upset when vermeil stepped down
Five of the six Eagles losses that year came by four points or less. I bet Vermeil would've still coached had they won those games.
My neighbor tony woodruff played for the eagles from 82 to 84 he was #83 great guy and friend
I remember he scored the winning TD against the Rams in 1983
As a cowboys fan this eagles team wasn’t good
Yea duh plus what’s with saying “as a cowboys fan” like that adds anything…my god some of you people need to grow up
@@williamstocker584 hey stop that