At first glance, this is notable because it isn’t often that big name quarterbacks change teams, and it is even more rare for them to leave one team and turn up on the roster of a division rival the very next season.

There is another interesting fact about this roster move though.

Through the 2009 NFL season, Donovan McNabb has thrown 216 touchdown passes. He has thrown more touchdown passes, 27 to be exact, against the Redskins than he has against any other team in the National Football League.

Now that he is playing for Washington, that will be the end of that though as either the New York Giants or Dallas Cowboys are sure to take over the number one spot in that category.

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Here is a look at 22 tidbits of Terrell Owens trivia:

-Terrell Owens has returned a kickoff five times during his career, the longest one went for 23 yards in 1997.

-The most times T.O. has fumbled the ball in one season is three. This happened in 2000, and he wouldn’t fumble the ball again until 2004.

-Terrell Owens’ favorite player as a kid growing up in Alabama: Jerry Rice.

-One other NFL player came from the same hometown as Terrell Owens, Alexander City, Alabama: Jim Phillips played wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings from 1958 to 1967, earning trips to the Pro Bowl three times.

-Terrell Owens has five career tackles. None were make as a member of the San Francisco 49ers. Three came as a Dallas Cowboy and two came with the Buffalo Bills

-The longest run T.O has ever made after taking a hand off went for 38 yards in 2002 while with the 49ers.

-As a member of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball team, Terrell Owens got to play in the 1995 NCAA Basketball Tournament. The tournament was won that year by Tyus Edney and the UCLA Bruins.

-Terrell Owens has passed two hundred yards receiving in a game twice in his career. The first time when he caught 20 passes for 283 yards with the 49ers in 2000 and the second time when he caught seven passes for 213 yards with the Cowboys in 2008.

-The most touchdowns he has ever scored in one game is four. This happened in 2007 with the Cowboys in a 28-23 win over the Redskins.

-Through the 2009 season, there are two NFL teams that Terrell Owens has gained over 1000 yards receiving against in his career: The St. Louis Rams (1,035) and the Carolina Panthers (1,110).

-In 2005, his 91 yard touchdown reception was the longest TD catch of the year in the NFL.

-T.O. caught nine passes for 122 yards in his only Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XXXIX in 2004 while with the Eagles. Of those nine catches, four of them went for ten yards exactly.

-Terrell Owens wore #82 and played a member of the fictional Miami Sharks in the 1999 Oliver Stone movie ‘Any Given Sunday’.

-T.O. has caught more touchdown passes against the New Orleans Saints, with a total of 12, than he has against any other team. The Atlanta Falcons are in second on the list with 11, and then the Rams, Giants, and Panthers are tied for third with ten scored against each of them.

-Terrell Owens has caught more touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter, a total of 43 during his career, than he has in any other quarter of play.

-The most touchdowns receptions he ever caught in one season was 16 with the 49ers in 2001.

-T.O. has caught five postseason touchdown passes during his career. The first four came with the 49ers and all came in games his team one. The last one came in 2007 with the Cowboys in a game they lost to the New York Giants.

-Terrell Owens was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft, the 89th pick overall.

-Other wide receivers selected ahead of Terrell Owens in the 1996 NFL Draft include: Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, Eddie Kennison, Marvin Harrison, Eric Moulds, Alex Van Dyke, Amani Toomer, Bryan Still, Muhsin Muhammad, Bobby Engram, and Derrick Mayes.

-The longest touchdown reception of his career went for 98 yards and came in a 18-15 Buffalo Bills lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was a third quarter score and was thrown by Ryan Fitzpatrick.

-No quarterback has thrown more touchdown passes to Terrell Owens than Jeff Garcia with 50. Tony Romo is in second with 34.

-Through the 2009 season, T.O. has scored a touchdown rushing three different times. He did it first in 1998 in a 28-10 win over the Rams, then he did it in 2002 in a 20-10 win over the Redskins, and he did it for the third and so far final time in 2009 as a member of the Bills in a 31-10 loss to the Houston Texans.

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One of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League during the 2000′s was Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles. McNabb made a number of big plays and played in some of the decade’s biggest games. His Eagles teams were always exciting and he was a big part of the reason why.

Even though he has since moved on to the Washington Redskins, McNabb will always be associated with Philadelphia. Who were his favorite receivers during his time there though? Here are the top five receivers listed in order of how many touchdown passes they caught from Donovan McNabb.

Brian Westbrook – 27

Terrell Owens – 20

Chad Lewis – 18

L.J. Smith – 15

James Thrash – 14

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The Philadelphia Eagles have had some great quarterbacks over the years, and even though the quarterback sack is a stat that wasn’t tracked until the late 1960s, which Eagles quarterbacks were sacked the most?

Here is the top ten list of most sacked Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks.

1. Randall Cunningham – 422 sacks
2. Donovan McNabb – 357 sacks
3. Ron Jaworski – 344 sacks
4. Roman Gabriel – 97 sacks
5. Rodney Peete – 77 sacks
6. Bobby Hoying – 63 sacks
7. Ty Detmer – 46 sacks
8. Mike Boryla – 45 sacks
9. John Reaves – 44 sacks
10. Norm Snead – 42 sacks

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Currently NFL teams play 16 games during the regular season, but it hasn’t always been this way. Up until 1947, the league fluctuated between ten and twelve games played per season. Some of this had to do with the instability of some teams as well as playing during the seasons affected by World War II. In 1961 though, the NFL changed to a 14 game season and stayed that way until 1978 when the change to the current 16 game format was made.

So, who was the last team to win it all during a 12 game schedule?

That would be the 1960 Philadelphia Eagles who went 10-2 and then defeated the Green Bay Packers 17-13 for the NFL Championship. That Eagles team was coached by Buck Shaw and featured the likes of Norm Van Brocklin, Pete Retzlaff, Chuck Bednarik, Marion Campbell, and Tommy McDonald. They beat a Packers team being coached by Vince Lombardi for just the second season and featured players like Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor Max McGee, Willie Davis, and Ray Nitschke.

And who was the last team to win the championship during a 14 game schedule?

That would be the 1977 Dallas Cowboys who defeated the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs before going on to beat the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. The Cowboys were coached by Tom Landry and featured players like Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, Butch Johnson, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Randy White, and a young rookie running back named Tony Dorsett. The Orange Crush Broncos were coached by Red Miller and featured players like Craig Morton, Otis Armstrong, Haven Moses, Rick Upchurch, Lyle Alzado, Steve Foley, Randy Gradishar, and future ESPN broadcaster Tom Jackson.

So, the Eagles and the Broncos go down as the last NFL champions during the final seasons before a change in the amount of regular season games. If they bump up to an 18 game schedule in 2011, that means the team that wins it all this year will join that group.

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The interesting thing about this trade is that it technically violated NFL rules. Both Young and Jaworski had fulfilled their contracts and were not bound to any team. Neither the Rams nor the Eagles had the right to trade a player that was no longer under contract to them. The trade was allowed to go through anyway, and the rest is history.

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-Though he had set the all time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) record for touchdowns scored in a career, Montgomery wasn’t selected in the 1977 NFL Draft until taken by the Eagles in the 6th round.

-In the Eagles’ Super Bowl loss to the Oakland Raiders, Wilbert Montgomery carried the ball 16 times. Ten of those rushing attempts came on first downs.

-Wilbert Montgomery has three brothers that also played in the NFL.

-In a 1981 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Wilbert Montgomery racked up his one and only 100 yard receiving game in the NFL. He ended up catching ten passes that day for 143 yards and one touchdown.

-Wilbert Montgomery attempted three passes during his NFL career, none of them were ever completed.

-In a 1979 loss to the Cleveland Browns, Wilbert Montgomery set his personal best with 197 rushing yards.

-In 1987, Wilbert Montgomery was included among the initial group of Philadelphia Eagles players inducted into the team’s Honor Roll.

-Wilbert Montgomery had 26 one hundred yard rushing games during his NFL career.

-In 1979, Wilbert Montgomery led the league with 14 fumbles. During no other season in his career did he have more than six.

-During his NFL career, Wilbert Montgomery scored 58 touchdowns, 35 of them at home in Philadelphia and the other 23 on the road.

-During his eight years in the NFL as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, Wilbert Montgomery wore the jersey number 31. He finished his career with one lone season as a member of the Detroit Lions where he wore jersey number 28.

-The team that Wilbert Montgomery scored the most touchdowns against during his career was the Washington Redskins with 13.

-Wilbert Montgomery got the longest run of his NFL career, a 90 yard touchdown run, during the strike shortened 1982 NFL season.

-Each of Wilbert Montgomery’s 12 career receiving touchdowns was thrown by quarterback Ron Jaworski.

-Wilbert Montgomery scored 12 receiving touchdowns during his career, three of them came against the Washington Redskins (1978, 1979, and 1982).

-In 1979, Wilbert Montgomery had 2,006 yards from scrimmage which led the entire NFL in that category.

-In a 1982 game against the Houston Oilers, Wilbert Montgomery gained 147 yards on just 17 carries, an amazing 8.65 yards per carry.

-The first touchdown that Wilbert Montgomery ever scored came in the 3rd quarter of a week 13 win over the New York Giants when he returned a kickoff 99 yards for the score.

-The most rushing touchdowns that Wilbert Montgomery ever scored in a game was three. He did this three times, twice against the Washington Redskins (in 1978 and 1979) and also once against the Houston Oilers in 1982. The most total touchdowns he scored in a game is four, which he did by adding a receiving touchdown to his stat total in each of those two games against the Redskins.

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But, this is a trivia site… so today we’re going to look at Michael Vick’s career numbers vs. his new team the Philadelphia Eagles.

-Michael Vick has a career record of 1-1 against the Philadelphia Eagles, winning in a Monday Night Football match up during week one of the 2005 NFL season by a score of 14-10, and then losing in a week 17 match up in 2006 by the score of 24-17.

-In his two games against the Philadelphia Eagles, while quarterbacking for the Atlanta Falcons, Michael Vick only managed to throw one touchdown pass.  This pass came in the 2006 loss to the Eagles and was thrown to Warrick Dunn in the first quarter.

-In those two games versus the Eagles, Michael Vick has also run for just one touchdown.  This happened in the 2005 win when he scampered for a touchdown in the first quarter.

-Michael Vick’s two career touchdowns against the Philadelphia Eagles, one in the air and one on the ground, each went for the same distance, seven yards.

-Michael Vick has one career interception against the Eagles, it was Philadelphia great Brian Dawkins that picked him off in the 2005 game.

It remains to be seen what kind of impact Michael Vick has on the Philadelphia Eagles, or if he has no impact at all, but it will definitely go down as one of the more interesting personnel moves of 2009.

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The 1930s
The Philadelphia Eagles‘ first year in the NFL was 1933 and they would spend the rest of the decade putting up below .500 records each and every season. In the early days of American football many teams did not use a player in what would become the traditional role of a quarterback. The leading passer for the Eagles in their first year was Red Kirkman who in nine games completed 22 passes out of 73 attempts for 354 total yards. In an indication of how the team’s first season went, finishing with a record of 3-5-1, Kirkman finished the season with two touchdown passes and 13 interceptions. 1934 would see the leading passer on the Eagles be tailback Ed Matesic who would also throw two touchdown passes, but only throw five interceptions. Matesic would be the leading passer in 1935 as well. In 1936, fullback Dave Smukler would take over as the team’s leading passer and remain their for three seasons. He would finish those seasons with three touchdown passes in 1936, five touchdown passes in 1937, and seven touchdown passes in 1938. The only time he would lead the league in any passing category was 1937 when his 14 interceptions were tops in the league. 1939 would see Heisman Trophy winner Davey O’Brien come to Philadelphia and immediately set the record for most passing yards in an NFL season with 1,324.

The 1940s
The next decade would start out with continued excitement over the team’s quarterback, and O’Brien would respond leading the league in passing attempts and completions while finishing the season with 1,290 yards. After two seasons in the NFL, O’Brien would leave the team and join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an agent. Tommy Thompson would join the team in 1941 and immediately make an impact at the position of quarterback. The team would continue its losing ways at the outset of the 1940s, but in 1943 when playing as the Phil/Pitt Steagles, they would experience their first winning record finishing the season at 5-4-1. 1943 would see Roy Zimmerman see major playing time as primary starting quarterback for the Eagles, he would be the Eagles leading passer through the 1945 season while Thompson moved into a backup role. Also appearing as a backup quarterback for the Eagles during this time was future future head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and New York Giants, Allie Sherman. Through the late 1940s, Zimmerman and Thompson would split duties at starting quarterback with Zimmerman getting the bulk of the starts but Thompson leading the team in most passing categories. This arrangement was very successful with the team appearing in the NFL Championship game in 1947, 1948, and 1949, winning the title in 1948 and 1949.

The 1950s
Tommy Thompson would be the primary starting quarterback at the start of the 1950s, but would end his career before the start of the 1951 season. Adrian Burk would take over the starting quarterback duties in 1952 and though the team would post a winning record (7-5), Burk would lead the league in interceptions thrown with a total of 23. Bobby Thomason joined the team in 1952 and he and Burk would split quarterback duties for much of the rest of the mid 1950s with 1956 being Burks’ last season in the NFL and 1957 being Thomason’s last year. Appearing on the roster as a backup quarterback at this time was Sonny Jurgensen, he would remain in that role throughout the rest of the decade. 1958 would see legendary Rams quarterback Norm Van Brocklin join the Eagles. Van Brocklin would turn the fortunes of the Eagles around, leading the league in completions and attempts in his first year with the team. Of interest here is that with Van Brocklin and Jurgensen on the roster, although they primarily made their names with other teams, the Rams and Redskins respectively, the Eagles would have two future Hall of Famers at the quarterback position.

The 1960s
The Eagles would hit the big time in 1960 with another NFL Championship, and after winning the big game quarterback Norm Van Brocklin would call it a career. Van Brocklin’s retirement opened up a spot for Jurgensen in the starting lineup and he took full advantage, leading the league in completions, passing yards, touchdowns, and yards per game in his first year as a starter. The team would put up a 10-4 record in 1961, but success under Jurgensen wouldn’t last and after an injury filled 1963 season he would be traded to the Washington Redskins for quarterback Norm Snead. Jurgensen would go on to a legendary career in the nation’s capital, and the Eagles wouldn’t see post season play again for almost two decades. Snead would keep the starting quarterback position through the rest of the 1960s and during that stretch the Eagles would only post one winning record. In those seven seasons, Snead would lead the NFL in interceptions three different times.

The 1970s
Snead would be the primary starting quarterback in 1970 and after that one more year of futility he would move on to play a year with the Vikings before ending his career in the mid-70s after stints with the Giants and 49ers. Journeyman quarterback Pete Liske would be the starting quarterback for the Eagles in 1971 and the team would respond with a record of 6-7-1. Liske would split time the next season with John Reaves, and then Reaves would become the backup behind Roman Gabriel, who joined the team following a successful career with the Los Angeles Rams, in 1973. Interestingly, John Reaves would go on to spend time with the Bengals and Oilers before moving on to the USFL‘s Tampa Bay Bandits from 1983-1985. Reaves would come out of retirement in 1987 and start two games for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gabriel’s first season with the Rams would see him lead the league in completions, attempts, passing yards, touchdown passes, and passing yards per game. Gabriel led the Eagles in all passing statistice through the 1975 season. Backup quarterback Mike Boryla saw most of the starts during the 1976 season before the team’s starting quarterback job was turned over to Ron Jaworski in 1977. After a subpar 1977 season, the Eagles would play in the post season for the first time since their last championship in 1960 following the 1978 season. Jaworski would lead the team back to respectability at the end of the 1970s though he would never be the type of quarterback that would statisticaly dominate the league.

The 1980s
The new decade started off on the right track with the Eagles making it to the Super Bowl behind the quarterbacking of Ron Jaworski, the running of Wilbert Montgomery, the receiving of Harold Carmichael, and the coaching of Dick Vermeil. The Eagles would make it back to the playoffs in 1981, but that would be the end of playoff appearances with Jaworski as the starting quarterback, though he would remain with the team through the 1986 season. Randall Cunningham began his NFL career as Jaworski’s backup in 1985, and he would start four games that season and five games in 1986 before becoming the full time starter in 1987. Because of the many times that Cunningham would run the ball, he would actually lead the league in times being sacked during the 1986 season even though he only started five games during the season. Behind Cunningham and the improved defense under Buddy Ryan, the Eagles would once again return to respectability with playoff appearances in both 1988 and 1989. The 1987 season would be the first of four consecutive years that quarterback Randall Cunningham would not only lead the team in passing yards, but rushing yards too.

The 1990s
The 90s would agains see Randall Cunningham leading the team at the position of starting quarterback. The Eagles remained one of the most formidable teams in the league in the early 90s, thanks in large part to Reggie White and the rest of their defense. Cunningham would start out the 1991 season with a season ending injury and former Bears starting quarterback Jim McMahon would step in although games were also started that year by Jeff Kemp and Brad Goebel. The rest of the early 1990s would see Cunningham, mainly because of injuries, share starting quarterback duties with, among others Bubby Brister and Rodney Peete before he would leave following the 1996 season to play for the Minnesota Vikings. 1996 saw Ty Detmer emerge as the starting quarterback with Rodney Peete and former Redskins quarterback Mark Rypien as his main backups. The final three seasons of the 1990s would see Ty Detmer, Bobby Hoying, Rodney Peete, Koy Detmer, Doug Pederson, and Donovan McNabb all start games for the Eagles at quarterback.

The 2000s
The new millennium would see Donovan McNabb take over the Eagles starting quarterback job for the rest of the decade, only relinquishing it due to injury. The primary backup quarterbacks during this time were Koy Detmer, A.J. Feeley, Jeff Blake, Mike McMahon, Jeff Garcia, and Kevin Kolb. During this time the Eagles would make it to the NFC Championship Game four consecutive times from 2001 to 2004, including making it all the way to the Super Bowl in 2004 only to lose to the New England Patriots by a score of 24-21.

The Philadelphia Eagles have had many ups and downs during their years in the National Football League. Though it has been a great many years since they were last champions of the league, they have had numerous years when they were near the top and within reach of the championship. Much of the team’s success has happened when they have had quarterbacks that were some of the best in the league at the time running their offense. Quarterbacks like Norm Van Brocklin, Sonny Jurgensen, Ron Jaworski, Randall Cunningham, and Donovan McNabb. The Eagles have one of the longest histories of any team in the NFL and their future, like most teams, will be largely dependent on the success of their quarterback.

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-He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft. Cunningham was one of the most physically gifted athletes to ever play the position of quarterback. A number of the best highlights from the late 1980s and early 1990s include Randall Cunningham scrambling around and either finding a way to make an incredible pass or finding a way to tuck the ball in and run for a touchdown. Cunningham never got his Super Bowl ring, but he was successful, even after leaving the Eagles, when he helped the Minnesota Vikings become one of the more exciting teams to watch for a few years.

-His most impressive year in terms of touchdowns thrown was 1998 after he’d joined the Vikings when he threw 34 TDs.

-Cunningham played quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, and Baltimore Ravens. The only team he had a losing record for as a starting quarterback was Dallas where he went 1-2.

-Randall Cunningham led the league in yards per rushing attempt in both the 1989 and 1990 NFL seasons. In 1989 he averaged 6.0 yards per rushing attempt, and in 1990 he averaged a whopping 8.0 yards per attempt.

-In 1990, Randall Cunningham came just 58 yards short of attaining a 1,000 yard rushing season as a quarterback.

-In 1989 and 1990, Cunningham’s longest runs of the season were both over 50 yards.

-Randall Cunningham caught two passes during his career. Coincidentally, both went for three yard losses.

-He won the Bert Bell Award for Player of the Year on two different occasions, but ten years apart. The first time came in 1988 with the Eagles and then he won it again with the Vikings in 1998.

-Cunningham also played punter while in college and ocasionally with the Eagles they would run a play on fourth down from the shotgun formation and he would end up punting the ball. He ended up leading the league in the category of longest punt of the season on two different occasions. In 1994 he punted the ball only one time, but it did end up being an 80 yard punt. Five years earlier, in 1989, he had punted the ball six times over the course of the season, but one of them went for 91 yards.

-In five different seasons, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, and 1992, Randall Cunningham led the league in both number of times sacked and yards lost due to being sacked.

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