Eagles To Retire Brian Dawkins #20 Jersey
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, News, Secondary Monday, April 30th, 2012
I think the Eagles would admit that they misjudged the popularity of Brian Dawkins here in Philadelphia, as well as his ability to still play football. The absence of Dawkins on the Birds’ roster hurt the Birds for the last few years because they haven’t been able to find a star level safety, since he left.
The Birds made amends on Saturday with their Brian Dawkins retirement news conference. Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie was there to announce that Dawkins #20 jersey will retired on September 30 before a game between the Eagles and the defending champion New York Giants. Head coach Andy Reid was there and he started the push to put Dawkins into the NFL Hall of Fame.
The Birds had a group of season-ticket holders there to witness the event and get the chance to meet Dawkins. Dawkins made it a point to speak to the passionate Eagles fans who loved him so much.
“I wore my emotions on my sleeve”, Dawkins said while fighting back the tears. “You can tell in the video that that’s who I was. It wasn’t an act . . . I’m a passionate cat about the thing that I did for a living for that long . . . [fans] knew that everything I said was coming from my heart.”
Former Eagles like Donovan McNabb, Correll Buckhalter, Jeremiah Trotter, Tra Thomas, Ike Reese, Darwin Walker, Mike Mamula and current Eagles coaches Duce Staley and Mike Caldwell, who all played with Dawkins were there as well.
Dawkins signed a one-day contract with the Birds before retiring. He spoke about leaving the game on his own terms.
“As I walked down the aisle, you didn’t see me limping and you didn’t see my shoulders sag to one side or the other. My body is healthy and I feel great”, Dawkins said during his remarks.
Dawkins’ #20 will join the ranks of Eagles uniform numbers which have been retired.
The Philadelphia Eagles have been in existence a long-time and a lot of people have worn that number”, Dawkins said. “To know that now, because the Lord blessed me to play this game, nobody will ever wear it again…. what an honor, what about honor.”
Number 20 will be the eighth retired jersey in franchise history. Here’s the rest of the list:
15 – Steve Van Buren, 40 – Tom Brookshier, 44 – Pete Retzlaff, 60 – Chuck Bednarik, 70 – Al Wistert, 92 – Reggie White, 99 – Jerome Brown
Here are the 17 players who wore #20 in an Eagles uniform prior to Dawkins:
1. Alex Marcus, 2. John Lipski, 3. Clyde Williams, 4. Howard Bailey, 5. Pete Stevens, 6. Jim MacMurdo, 7. Henry Reese, 8. Elmer Hackney, 9. Don Stevens, 10. Bibbles Bawel, 11. Jim Harris, 12. Frank Budd, 13. Leroy Keyes, 14. John Outlaw, 15. Leroy Harris, 16. Andre Waters, 17. Vaughn Hebron
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schiller I don’t want to continue to boo the birds today — I like the team and I realize I’m slamming them — the miller & olbermann reference is comparing your fortune teller paragraph to their insistence of pulling their classical education into common conversation, I had to read that comment twice before I realized what you wanted to express and I was pissed that I had to read it twice
Eagles0 – I respect that post a lot. I really do and thanks for clearing up those references. When I refer to scientific knowledge and the like, I do it to draw attention to proven truths that can help us think rationally and help ease the frustration and rage, not to show what I know or be condescending. I’m not taking credit for the concepts of cognitive distortionss, just pointing you to some stuff that someone showed me, that is relevant here. Go birds.
Songs – take notes – really – in multiple rcvr sets the S lines up on a rcvr –
um.. No Songs – wrong AGAIN – see they have these things called nickle and dime packages where they bring extra CBs on the field – so if the offense sends in 3 rcvrs – the eagles send in an extra CB (remember that whole Boykin/Hanson convo dumbass) – technically they pull an LB and just add an extra DB – 5 DBs – nickel – let me know if I am going to fast – and if they send in 4 the eagles put a dime package in – which is 6 DBs – typically 4 CBs and 2 Safety with 1 LB – again – if I am going to fast… let me know..
So I guess you don;t know the situation where a Free Safety is forced to cover someone man to man..
just cut paste and print – if you need me to explain cover 1, 2 and 3 I can do that for you too….
just cause your a dumb ass I will give it away – It is called Cover 0 (as in Zero) – and you use it when….. on a blitz! That’s right Songs – the ONLY time a FS is ever lined up man to man is during blitzing situations..
There goes Schiller telling us how smart he is, but he is just an educated derelict, the world is full of them and they are the first to spout some so called empirical truths to bolster their views on things, people, stuck in personal developmental stages, ultimately unable to self actualize, but at least he is entertaining with his persistent penchants
Jake, glad i’m entertaining. First, you’re done developing? Development is a bad thing? Wow, sucks for you. And that’s against empircal knowledge. Guess you wont develop into a grandfather. No grey hair, reflectivie life satisfaction from you one day. Nope, you’re perfect and done developing. Shame you never developed past thinking development and education, not to mention humility, are bad things. DAMN shame.
But most of all, does everyone realize how that when I post something involving something I’ve learned in life, that psychologists around the world use in the most widely used school of thought, cognitive behavioral therapy, jake doesn’t post an opinion about the content of what I refered to or the greater point I was making, rather he attempts to distrcact us from the content by saying that learning things is bad? How messed up is that.
Jake, not sure if you’re into politics, but if you ever decide to develop again, you’d make a great politician – distract from content by disparaging the progress of society learning things.
Pathetic
Jake, am I mistaken or are you the one who said you’re in med school?
Either way, do you think doctors are arrogant because they’re educated as well?