Movie Match Monday

  

(in which I awkwardly match a movie with a sports team or an athlete)

  

In a season that saw the casualties pile up, including the loss of their top field general, the 2017 Eagles persevered.  Their commanding officer believed in bold action, which led to a record number of 4th down attempts and conversions.  Perhaps the greatest risk led to the ultimate reward, and is known to historians as the Philly Special. 

   

  

    

Nick Foles

-  With the Eagles 2012- 14, 2017 - 18

-  Super Bowl LII MVP

-  Pro Bowl - 2013

-  7 TD passes in one game - 2013

-  25 consecutive completions - 2018

Zach Ertz

-  With the Eagles 2013 - present

-  3 Pro Bowls - 2017 - 19

-  Most receptions by a TE in one season - 116 in 2018

Jason Kelce

-  With the Eagles 2011 - present

-  3-time First Team All-Pro - 2017 - 19

-  3 Pro Bowls - 2014, 2016, 2019

Fletcher Cox

-  With the Eagles 2012 - present

-  2010s All-Decade Team

-  First Team All-Pro - 2018

-  3-time Second Team All-Pro - 2014, 2015, 2017

-  5 Pro Bowls - 2015 - 19

Brandon Graham

-  With the Eagles 2010 - present

-  Second Team All-Pro - 2016

Carson Wentz

-  With the Eagles 2016 - present

-  Second Team All-Pro 2017

-  Pro Bowl - 2017

Richard Burton

  

-  Nominated for 7 Oscars

-  Films include: Becket, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Taming of the Shrew, Cleopatra

Clint Eastwood

-  Nominated for two Best Actor Oscars

-  Won 2 Best Director Oscars, nominated for 2 others

-  Films include:  Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, The Gauntlet, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Pale Rider, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter