How many steelers fans pretend...

[GMDino]

(02-05-2018, 01:50 PM)BMK Wrote: Funfact not worth knowing #257

Actually, it's entirely possible that their fathers, ok grandfathers,  WERE Eagles fans...at least for one year back in the mid 40's. Both teams lost so many of their players to the war effort,  the Steelers and Eagles combined the two teams and created the Steagles.   They went 5-4 and it was the very first winning season for Philly, and only the second one for Pgh.  They went back to two separate teams the next year. 

And Art Rooney also OWNED the Eagles...for a brief period of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Rooney#Pittsburgh_Steelers

Quote:In 1936, Rooney won a parlay at Saratoga Race Course, which netted him about $160,000. He used the winnings to hire a coach, Joe Bach, give contracts to his players and almost win a championship. The winnings funded the team until 1941 when he sold the franchise to NY playboy Alex Thompson. Thompson wanted to move the franchise to Boston so he could be within a five-hour train ride of his club. At the same time, the Philadelphia Eagles ran into financial problems. Rooney used the funds from the sale of franchise to get a 70% interest in the Eagles, the other 30% held by Rooney friend and future NFL commissioner, Bert Bell. Bell and Rooney agreed to trade places with Thompson. Bell took the role of President of the Steelers that he relinquished to Rooney in 1946 when Bell became Commissioner. Rooney got his good friend and his sister's father in law, Barney McGinley, to buy Bell's shares. Barney's son Jack, Art's brother in law, retained the McGinley interest that passed to his heirs when he died in 2006.[6]

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