Game of My Life Philadelphia Eagles: Memorable Stories of Eagles Football

By Bob Gordon

In these pages, several legendary Eagles players share their fondest memories as each one recalls the game that sticks out the most from his Eagles career. The games they choose may very well be the one with which you most associate them—a championship game, a playoff game, or a heralded comeback. But a fair number of choices may surprise you, as some Eagles cite encounters that time and history have buried deep within history’s vault. No matter which game each player chooses as his most memorable, each one tells a story. Each fills in a bit more of the complex legacy that defines the Philadelphia Eagles. More importantly, and certainly more poignantly, each story humanizes the larger-than-life warriors who strapped on their winged helmet each Sunday and played for the glory of the city of Philadelphia.

Some of the former Eagles players profiled in this book are:

Chuck Bednarik
Brian Dawkins
Tommy McDonald
Bill Bergey
Seth Joyner
Keith Jackson
Mike Quick
Vai Sikahema
Garry Cobb
William Thomas
Brian Baldinger
Claude Humphrey
Bill Bradley
Lito Sheppard
Vince Papale

The new edition includes a fresh introduction, which explores the vicissitudes of the Andy Reid era, recounts the emergence of 21st-century stars like DeSean Jackson and Brian Westbrook, and dives into much, much more Eagle lore.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sports Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781613214633

Reviews for Game of My Life Philadelphia Eagles

[benkline · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It was fun reading some of the players "game of their lives" or more like "their most memorable/one they enjoyed the most". The backstories on some of the players and the lead-up to the games in question were a nice touch, especially for the eras before I was born. Sadly a lot of the players in this collection (as well as the two Phanatics and Chris Wheeler) are kind of inconsequential players/people in the grand scheme of things (sadly no Ashburn, or Bowa or Rose or Maddux or later years like Kruk, Dalton, Eisenreich, Utley, Howard, Rollins, etc), but published in 2008 (originally and then republished in 2013) some of that is understandable, and seeing as how this is a smaller print run style book, also understandable that some of the "big names" of Phillies history weren't around for this.

There was also a few factual and typographical errors in this as well.

It was a nice touch to end on Tug McGraw.