Hall of Famer Tommy McDonald: “Eagles owners don’t forget ballplayers of the past”

The Philadelphia Eagles will celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of their 1960 NFL championship team on Kickoff Weekend with three days of festivities for players on that team and for fans.  The weekend culminates on Sunday, Sept. 12 with the 1960 team being honored at halftime and the Eagles wearing the kelly green and white jerseys worn in the 1960 title game victory over the Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia’s 2010 Kickoff Weekend opponent.

”It’s a whole weekend of celebrations,” Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie (above, from right to left, with Eagles alumni Tommy McDonald and Pete Retzlaff and current head coach Andy Reid - Morning Call) told the Allentown Morning Call at a press conference at Philadelphia’s Franklin Field, site of the 1960 championship game. “From a Friday night dinner to Saturday with the fans going from the NovaCare [Complex] to the stadium,  there’s so many things going on. It’s meant to be a whole weekend celebration to not only bring that group together, but to bring the fans into it.”

“That just goes to show me that the Eagles owners don’t forget the ballplayers of the past,” Tommy McDonald, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who caught an Eagles’ touchdown pass in the game, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“We’re really looking forward to this,” Pete Retzlaff, a tight end on the team, told the Delaware County Times. “It doesn’t seem like it’s been 50 years. But it has.”

“They deserve the focus to be on them,” Lurie added. “They built the franchise.”

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