Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie goes on the record to talk about the team every year at the NFL’s annual Owners’ Meetings, which are held each offseason after the meaty part of free agency and before the draft.
Otherwise, it takes a pretty noteworthy event — such as “Media Night” the week of a Super Bowl that the Eagles are participating in — for Lurie to talk on the record.
I asked Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie what he would do if Brown knocked on his door and asked for a trade. His answer was firm, team-first and championship-minded.
“We do what’s best for the team,” he said. “We don’t even consider it seriously unless it’s best for the Eagles. We will always do what gives us the best chance of winning big. Everything else is secondary.”
Bottom line: Brown can be frustrated all he wants, but this team plays for the ring first. However, GM Howie Roseman will always listen, and if the Eagles get an exorbitant offer? Nobody is untradable in Philadelphia.
Of course, Brown’s relationship with quarterback Jalen Hurts has been an ever-present storyline since last season, and Brown has taken to social media multiple times this season to voice his frustration after games.
For an owner who is shielded from public commentary built on decades of precedent, Lurie’s willingness to comment on the record in-season about the trade of a star player is noteworthy, to say the least.
To begin, Lurie took the question seriously. Had he been asked about the trade of other star players like Jalen Carter or Zack Baun or Jalen Hurts, I imagine that the question would be met with confusion. But with Brown, the fact that Lurie answered at all confirms that it was a legitimate inquiry, and likely strategic.
It is highly unlikely that the Eagles will deal Brown before the November 4 trade deadline. But Lurie had the opportunity to say the team wouldn’t trade him — or simply to decline to talk at all, as usual — but he did neither.
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Imagine this, Philly. The Dallas Cowboys — with a fresh start once again to begin the 2025 NFL Season — not only have to commence the season in the bosom of the home of their arch rival — but from a box high above the field — Jerry Jones will get a good view of the raising of the Eagles championship banner.
For Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie — it’s been quite a journey for his franchise to achieve prominence. After nearly two decades of being the class of the NFC — his Eagles finally advanced to the realm of sports euphoria after out-dueling New England in Super Bowl LII in 2018, advancing to the big game again in 2023, and brought the Lombardi Trophy home in Super Bowl LIX last year.
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For Cowboy’s owner — Jerry Jones — the reality is much worse. There was a time when bold moves from an oil tycoon and his Head Coach from the University of Miami bundled an aging Herschel Walker in return for draft selections that would deliver them a dynasty. Thirty-five years later — the end of Jones’ dynasty with a championship in 1995 — would be the end of the best time of his ownership of the Cowboys. Since 1996 — the Cowboys have advanced to the playoffs thirteen times — never again reaching a Conference Championship Game again. In August (Jones) exchanged Parsons to the Packers in exchange for (two) 1st round picks and defensive tackle (Kenny) Clark.
In the end — it would be the Eagles would contribute to the end of the Cowboys. Twenty-six years ago — the (Eagles) Coach Reid and Donovan (McNabb) were part of a team that opened the season in Dallas amid scorching temperatures— Troy Aikman threw a pick six to Jeremiah Trotter, went 0–5, and wound up in the hospital with a concussion. That next season would be his last. The same year at Veterans Stadium — Tim Hauck hit Michael Irvin effectively ending his career. In 2003 — Emmitt Smith’s last game with the Cowboys ended with a screen pass intercepted by Shawn Barber.
Last season — a video surfaced of Jerry Jones being heckled at Lincoln Financial Field. This year — without Micah Parsons and a team going sideways — the trip on Thursday night could be much, much worse for Jerry.
Why A Season that Ended in Collapse Doesn’t Diminish the Strength of the Eagles in 2024.
On Tuesday, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie took to the podium for his annual meeting with the Press about the Eagles to talk about season and where he sees the team going.
For years during the mid-2000s, I would be in attendance at Eagles Training Camp at Lehigh University. Each year in the August, there was Jeffrey Lurie, watching intently in the Pennsylvania sun and eyes covered by sunglasses as he proudly observed his franchise.
His Philadelphia Eagles.
It’s Been 30 years since fourty-two year old Jeffrey Lurie purchased the Philadelphia Eagles for $185 Million in 1994. While it’s true that Lurie is not the most successful owner in Eagles history — his franchise is not only a beloved Philadelphia tradition since 1933 — but also the strongest that the Eagles have ever been.
Both nationally and internationally.
This year is another anniversary for Eagles leadership. Fourty years ago in December of 2024 — Eagles owner Leonard Tose’ plan to move the Eagles to Arizona after not getting the immediate support that he requested from the City of Philadelphia to build Skyboxes in Veteran’s Stadium — was exposed by the Philadelphia media.
Shortly after in April of 1985, Norman Braman and Ed Leibowitz bought the Eagles.
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This month, the news broke that the Eagles will play Eagles to Sao Palo Brazil in the first ever NFL game in over 50 years and the first ever in South America on Friday evening, September 6th.
Lurie’s continued growth of Bert Bell’s 1933 visionary team for all Philadelphia — not just for Frankford — hasn’t seen the success of the “Happy Hundred,” a group of investors who owned the Eagles during the Championship years of 1949 and 1960 before the NFL/AFL merger.
But longest-tenured Eagles owner has won a modern-day Super Bowl in 2018, which still the crowning victory for any NFL team between the NFC and AFC Conferences.
While behind the scenes, he has accomplished much more.
When Lurie borrowed $185 Million to buy the Eagles in 1994, after contemplating owning other sports’ franchises like the New England Patriots, the Eagles were far from championship caliber. The last World Championship had been in 1960, last Super Bowl appearance in 1981, and the exileration of Buddy Ryan’s Gang Green Defense had not brought the Eagles any closer to a title.
Since 1994, Lurie has delivered on a consistent contender in Philadelphia as he promised. When the Eagles were farthest from that promise, he has always took decisive action. Rich Kotite was out in 1994, Ray Rhodes in 1998, and a rebellious Chip Kelly in 2015. He even parted ways with Super Bowl winning coach Doug Pederson in 2021.
What Lurie has delivered is a consistent, quality, on-field product. Under Eagles Coach Andy Reid (coached in the Super Bowl) the Eagles were the class of the NFC in the early 2000s. They appeared in five NFC Championship Games, one Super Bowl, and six NFC East Titles between 2000–2010.
Then we enjoyed the euphoric sensation of the 2018 season that delivered Eagles’ fans almost everything that they wanted (I said almost.) The Eagles outmaneuvered Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the New England Patriots to to bring home the Lombardi Trophy, ran the Minnesota Vikings out of Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game, and made a huge defensive stand against Julio Jones and the Falcons in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game. Jones now plays for the Eagles.
And last season — a year of nearly Eagles perfection — saw the Eagles lose the Super Bowl to Andy Reid and the Chiefs 38–35. If we had time left on the clock, few in the greater the greater Philadelphia area think that the outcome couldn’t have been different. It could have been another Broad Street Parade once again.
The Philadelphia Eagles, Jeffrey Lurie’s $185 Million investment — now a reported value of $5.6 Billion — are reportedly the #4 most popular NFL team in 2024 according to SportingLad.com. In 2022, the Eagles made $598 Million in revenue. The Eagles have an outstanding 34.1% international fanbase according to gambling.com, which is one of the highest in the whole NFL.
And now, they are an international sensation as well. In March of 2022, the Eagles became the 19th NFL Team to enter the NFL Global Market, securing rights in Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Last year during the Super Bowl, the Eagles even hosted an international watch-party in Accu, Ghana sponsored by GATE Africa. In 2022, they were the first team in the NFL to enter the African market.
Certainly, the Eagles don’t as yet garnish the international the fame as the most popular international team (unfortunately the Dallas Cowboys) but with their current upward trajectory, all the reason exists to believe that eventually they can claim the the position of the NFL’s number one most-popular international team.
Looking back on those August summer days of seeing Jeff Lurie proudly on the sidelines at Training Camp, it’s no wonder why.
