Put on that midnight green and white for the Philadelphia Eagle’s 2009 Season at Lincoln Financial Field! With the loss of Terrell Owens this season comes with great disappointment, but the team will all be renewed with the great, young quarterback, Michael Vick.

The football team was created under the ideas of the National Recovery Act whose centerpiece was the Blue Eagle insignia. The team got its name from this centerpiece. In 1940, the Eagles moved to Shibe Park and played their home games at the stadium through 1957, except for the 1941 season, which was played at Municipal Stadium, where they had played from 1936 to 1939.

In 1943, when the country’s men went to fight in World War II, lack of able bodied men made it impossible to fill the roster. To create a functional team, an equally lacking Pittsburgh Steelers merged, forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the "Steagles."

After the 1957 season, the Eagles moved from Connie Mack Stadium to Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania, selling many Eagles tickets at this new location. Franklin Field would seat over 60,000 for the Eagles, whereas Connie Mack had a capacity of 39,000. The stadium switched from grass to Astroturf in 1969. It was the first NFL stadium to use artificial turf.

In 1970, the AFL and NFL mixed to a consistent cross-country group. The Eagles were placed in the NFC East Division with their archrivals the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins, and the Dallas Cowboys

An interesting history follows the owners of the football team. In 1985, Tose was forced to sell the Eagles to Norman Braman and Ed Leibowitz, highly successful automobile dealers from Florida, for a reported $65 million to pay off his more than $25 million in gambling debts at Atlantic City casinos. Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles on May 6, 1994 from then owner Norman Braman for an estimated $185 million. The club is now estimated to be the 5th most valuable NFL franchise by selling many Eagles tickets, worth $1.024 billion, as valuated in 2006 by Forbes. In 1999, the Eagles hired head coach Andy Reid and drafted quarterback Donovan McNabb. From that time on the team continually improved, returning to the playoffs in 2000, and then succeeding in winning the NFC East and playing in four consecutive conference championship games between 2001 and 2004.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl in 2004 (Super Bowl XXXIX), where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24–21. In 2006, the team earned its fifth NFC East title under Coach Reid and in 2008, the team won their 500th football game. On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23–11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid. In the 2008 NFC Championship Game, the Eagles lost to the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 32–25. Get your Philadelphia Eagles tickets through the Seats and enjoy the 2009 season live.