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Bowen: Another Eagles Super Bowl?! We're living in the future — I thought there would be flying cars though

January 28, 2025

Feb 12, 2023; Glendale, Arizona, US; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid meets with Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie on the field before Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

I was scrolling through social media after the Eagles’ amazing 55-23 NFC Championship victory over Washington Sunday evening, and my eyes stopped on a post from a much younger reporter (yes, that’s everybody these days), who noted that he was about to cover his third Eagles Super Bowl.
It was dark outside, and I was indoors, but I shook my wrinkled, age-spotted fist at a cloud, anyway.
The Eagles are in the Super Bowl for the second time in three seasons, the third time in eight seasons. To a lot of us who covered the team over the decades, that is a heckuva sentence to write, a heckuva thing to contemplate. Listen here, sonny – there was a time when the Eagles had been to one Super Bowl in ...

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