Philadelphia
EAGLES
< 1995
1996 1997
>
Ray Rhodes 2nd year as EAGLES head coach.
1996
pre-season:
L XXX Aug 3 at
Baltimore ravens SAT 7:30pm
L XXX Aug 8 New York jets THURS 7:30pm
W XXX Aug 18 at New England patriots
L XXX Aug 23 Pittsburgh steelers FRI 7:30pm
1996 regular season:
W 17-14 Sept 1 at Washington redskins
"I
want everybody to suck it up, " Rhodes said. "I want everybody to
bite the bullet. It's time to
go to war now. You know what happens to the weak: They get shot. You
can't carry a guy; you can't
drag the wounded guy on your shoulder. You've got to get your pistol out and
go and shoot him. He's
worthless. Either you kill him or the enemy will kill him. You'd
rather take him out of his misery, because
you know how the enemy's going to kill him. You say 'Where do
you want it? You want it in the heart
or in the head?'"
L 39-13 Sept 9 at Green Bay packers MNF
"We
were embarassed. To go to Green Bay for a Monday night and get destroyed like
that really hurts.
It embarassed me, everyone associated with this team, and the city. This is
not going to do it. It's not
going to be acceptable."
W 24-17 Sept 15 Detroit lions
"We
pounded the ball down their throats a little bit."
W 33-18 Sept 22 at Atlanta falcons
"It's
important for us to go down to Atlanta and play with the same type of intensity
that we played with
Sunday.
That will be discussed all week. Not just one or two days, but all week."
L 23-19 Sept 30 Dallas cowboys Rodney
Peete lost for season with a torn patella tendon
"It
hurts a great deal. I think I need the bye week more than the players do to
get over this one. It's going
to
linger for a while. I thought this was a chance for us to beat Dallas when
they were a little bit down.
They fought us, to their credit, and we didn't get it done."
=bye=
W 19-10 Oct 13 at NY giants
"I'm
going to tell you something, guys," he began. "As frustrated as
I am about the special teams, OK, I'm
through talking about that shit. All right? All right? I'm through talking
about it. All right? Don't talk to me....
I don't want to hear about that shit anymore."
W 35-28 Oct 20 Miami dolphins
"If
God was coaching a team and we had to play them, we'd do our damnedest to
beat them."
W 20-9 Oct 27 Carolina panthers
"I've
gone through life like somebody's got a loaded .38 pointed at my head, says
Rhodes.
And I say to myself, I have got no choice but to do this. I must succeed."
W 31-21 Nov 3 at Dallas cowboys Eagles
QB Ty Detmer
James Willis laterals to
Troy Vincent, who completes 104-yard interception return to seal win
"When
you go down there and play, you have to not only play the Dallas Cowboys,"
Rhodes said.
"Any
team that goes down there also plays the officials. So that's tough. And they
do get all the calls.
They
get all the calls."
L 24-17 Nov 10 Buffalo bills
"I've
gotten my call," Rhodes said. "I'm through talking about officiating.
They're the greatest people in America."
L 26-21 Nov 17 Washington redskins
"I
equate when people are coming into this stadium and playing us at our stadium,
it's people
coming into my house. That's the way I equate that. And
I was very pissed off about the way we're
approaching our house. That's just like you walk up and
you catch people burglarizing your house;
and they have sodomized your wife and kids. And you don't do anything about
it."
L 36-30 Nov 24 at Arizona cardinals
"I wish everybody had a .38 upside their
heads on Sunday, whereas they have to go out and fight for
their lives. The ones that don't fight
for their lives, just pull the trigger. Boom. So it's over."
W 24-0 Dec 1 NY giants
"They're
no juggernaut, but any time you can shut a team out, that's big for a team.
Regardless of who you
are playing - you can be playing any school around here - and a shutout is
a shutout. You take'em any way
you can get 'em."
L 37-10 Dec 5 at Indianapolis colts
"Evidently,
the Colts were much hungrier that we were because they're in a playoff run,
too, and they came
out to kick our rear ends, and that's exactly what they did. This was a total
embarassment to everyone."
W 21-20 Dec 14 at NY jets
"We
had to find a way to win," a grim coach Ray Rhodes said. "It's good
to win and everything,
but it's hard for me to get too elated about this
win."
W 29-19 Dec 22 Arizona cardinals
"I
have to take time out for Christmas," Rhodes said. "I'll go home
and have Christmas dinner with
the family. They might not like it. It's hard to have
Christmas dinner with me when I'm not talking. After
I bless the food, that's the end of the conversation.
I say 'Amen' and it's over."
10-6
NFC Wild Card
game
L 14-0 Dec 29 at
San Francisco
Super
Bowl XXXI
Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA. MVP: Green Bay
KR-PR Desmond Howard - 99 yard TD (KR)
Jan 26, 1997 Green Bay packers 35 - New England patriots 21
attendance: 72,301 ticket
- $275.00
former Eagle LDE Reggie White - 3 sacks (Super
Bowl record)
Desmond Howard
returns a kick-off
99 yards for a Green Bay TD.
Super
Bowl XXXI ticket distribution:
AFC Team: 17.5
%
NFC Team: 17.5%
New Orleans Saints: 10.0 % (host
team)
Other 27 teams: 29.7 % (1.1 % each)
League Office: 25.3
%
1996 season tickets:
sec 645
row 9
seat 1, 2
printed price
on tickets:
pre-season and regular season = $45. each
invoice:
$1050. total = $350. each = $35. per game
EAGLES Playoff Ticket
invoice, Friday, November 8, 1996
Regular season ticket price:
$45
$35
$23
Wild Card/Division:
$50
$45
$35
Championship:
$62
$55
$50
due Dec 3, 1996
+ $3 handling charge per account