The Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Washington Commanders on this previous Sunday’s NFC Championship recreation to earn a spot in Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans.
Seven-time Tremendous Bowl winner and FOX Sports activities broadcaster Tom Brady was within the broadcast sales space at Lincoln Monetary Discipline for the Eagles’ 55-23 victory.
At one level through the playoff recreation, tv cameras panned to former Eagles quarterback and Tremendous Bowl LII MVP Nick Foles, who was sitting in one of many stadium’s suites.
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Recognizing Foles within the crowd prompted Brady, who suffered one among his three profession Tremendous Bowl defeats to the Foles-led Eagles, to recall the notorious loss.
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots talks to Nick Foles of the Philadelphia Eagles after a preseason recreation at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 16, 2018, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Tim Bradbury/Getty Photos)
Whereas Brady has appeared in a report 10 Tremendous Bowls, Foles and Eli Manning are the one beginning quarterbacks to have knocked off the embellished former NFL star within the huge recreation.
Brady used Foles’ NFC title recreation look as a chance to confess he doesn’t harbor any jealousy towards the previous Eagles sign caller. “Nick, I do not hate you. I am simply jealous of you. You caught it, I did not,” Brady stated after FOX Sports activities lead play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt jokingly requested Brady if he knew who Foles competed towards within the Tremendous Bowl in February 2018.
Brady’s “you caught it” remark referenced the well-known “Philly Particular” trick play throughout Tremendous Bowl LII. Foles lined up within the backfield on the play, earlier than offensive lineman Jason Kelce snapped the ball to operating again Corey Clement.
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The operating again then pitched the ball to tight finish Trey Burton, who discovered Foles ultimately zone for a one-yard landing. Foles wrote his title in historical past books by changing into the primary participant in Tremendous Bowl historical past to throw and catch a landing go within the NFL’s annual championship recreation.
Whereas Foles efficiently hauled within the go thrown his approach throughout Tremendous Bowl LII, Brady didn’t catch a go from one among his large receivers later in that very same recreation. Eagles followers haven’t let Brady overlook about dropping what would have been a primary down.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles strains up as a large receiver throughout Tremendous Bowl LII towards the New England Patriots at U.S. Financial institution Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Feb. 4, 2018. (Robert Beck/Sports activities Illustrated by way of Getty Photos)
“I get reminded of that play each time I see an Eagles fan,” Brady stated by way of SiriusXM in 2022.
“I certain as hell cannot catch something, everybody’s seen that drop towards the Eagles within the Tremendous Bowl, however I can throw it a bit of bit,” Brady joked in 2021 – his second season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – throughout a postgame interview.
Brady received six Tremendous Bowl titles with the New England Patriots, earlier than profitable his seventh championship with the Buccaneers. In February 2023, Brady introduced he was retiring “for good.”
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Foles’ second stint with the Eagles ended after the 2018 season. He went on to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. He final appeared in an NFL recreation in 2022.
The Eagles drafted quarterback Jalen Hurts within the second spherical in 2020. Hurts helped the Eagles advance to Tremendous Bowl LVII, however suffered a 38-35 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in that recreation. This 12 months’s huge recreation, on Feb. 9 in New Orleans, shall be a rematch of the Tremendous Bowl from two years in the past.
A victory over the Eagles would safe an unprecedented third consecutive Tremendous Bowl title for the Chiefs. However, if Philly is victorious, it might mark the franchise’s second Tremendous Bowl championship.
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