Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Steagles

I

think there might have been some wartime thing where the Eagles and the Steelers combined to be the Steegles.

Oh, yeah.

Steegles? They need some naming help.

Yeah, I don't know.

Well, I'm only saying the dumb ones, obviously.

Or the 1944, or we can do the 1944 Steelers were Card-Pitt, uh, which is the year, the second of two years in a row the Steelers in World War II, combined with another franchise in 1943.

They did it with the, uh, Philadelphia Eagles, and they became the Steagles.

Yeah.

And they were not very good.

It wasn't until 1942 that they achieved a winning record.

But in 1943, wartime shortages forced them to merge with the Eagles, forming the Steagles.

The following year, they teamed up with the Cardinals.

From 1933 to 1971, the Steelers had only eight winning seasons and never contended for the NFL title.

That's six hundred twenty-five million wingless chickens.

In nineteen forty-three, the Steelers and the Eagles lost so many players to service in World War II that the teams combined and they called it the Steagles.

Stat of the day.

Stat of the day.