Duce To Retire An Eagle - Will Be Honored This Sunday At Halftime.

[Feva]

Since Andy got here, we've all gotten used to popular players leaving the team via FA and of all of them, Duce was the only one that really bothered me.  I remember in '97-'98 when it was him and nothing else, with a jacked shoulder... carrying the team through the lean years.

It'll be good to have him back in green.

[ice grillin you]

yeah he was amazing in 98...i think his best year....i remember the eagles letting watters go and thinking damn they are putting a lot of faith in a second year guy that didnt come with a lot of hype....duce promptly led the team in rushing AND receiving while getting brutalized on a pathetic 3-13 team

[Rome]

I was also bothered when they let Duce go.  A lot.

Eh - at least he got a Super Bowl ring when he left.  He deserved it after the beatings he took early in his career with some fairly awful football teams (97-99).

[PhillyPhreak54]

Since Andy got here, we've all gotten used to popular players leaving the team via FA and of all of them, Duce was the only one that really bothered me.  I remember in '97-'98 when it was him and nothing else, with a jacked shoulder... carrying the team through the lean years.

It'll be good to have him back in green.

Amen.

Well, Trot leaving hurt me too. But Duce leaving hit me hard. Like Don said, that TD against TB still gives me chills. As does him PLOWING his way into the endzone in the game when McNabb busted his ankle. Duce dragged like 4 Cards into the endzone with him.

[Fan_Since_64]

Duce
Trot
Ike
Eric Allen
Dawk

Top 5 all timers for me.

1. hopkins
2. reggie
3. jerome
4. quick
5. wilbert

1. Carmichael
2. Wilbert
3. Bill Bradley
4. Frank LeMaster
5. Bergey
5b. Ben Hawkins & Charles Young (FS 64 & 61 hear me)

Oh man do I miss Duce.  I still get chicken skin when I think of that first and only Eagle td in the NFCCG against Tampa.

Tough to keep it to 5......so many favorites over the years. But here goes:

Tom Woodeshick
Wilbert Montgomery
Super Bill Bradley
Brian Dawkins
Timmy Brown

Tommy McDonald was actually my first favorite player, but had just departed the Eagles at the point I began following them, so I'll leave him off the list.

Duce is definitely on my honorable mention list, with about 30 others.

And Don Ho, do you remember Charle Young as a rookie in '73 scoring on an end around play against the Vikings? Unbelieveable run - he must have carried about half the Vikings defense (and this was back when they had one hell of a defense!) into the end zone with him. 

[JackStraw]

Hard to get all misty-eyed - especially after this season.  Another retirement from another broken era. He did carry the day during a transitional period and he was a class act. And he got the typical Eagle send-off.

Love it when they retire with the ring from somewhere else.

[Sgt PSN]

great receiver too coming out of the backfield.

i forget which game it was but against the giants during the 9 game losing streak against them....there was a TD run he had where he seemed to be down and gang tackled by about 3 giants players...when somehow he just broke free.

it was awesome A+

I remember the play very well.  He basically took the ball right up the middle, was bottled up and literally disapeared and then suddenly reappeared and took the to the right for something like a 15-20 yard score.  I also remember Strahan intercepting a pass in OT and running it back about 80+ yards for the gw score. 

yeah he was amazing in 98...i think his best year....i remember the eagles letting watters go and thinking damn they are putting a lot of faith in a second year guy that didnt come with a lot of hype....duce promptly led the team in rushing AND receiving while getting brutalized on a pathetic 3-13 team

98 wasn't his best year statistically with just over 1000 yards rushing (1060something I think).  His best year would have been in 99 when he ran for 1200+ yards.  The amazing thing about the 98 season though was that he was able to run the ball at all despite the QB carosel of Hoying/Peete/Neckbeard plus he had a hernia for the final 8 weeks of the season. 

[Sgt PSN]

Tough to keep it to 5......so many favorites over the years.

Probably the worst thing about being old.........too many players to chose from. 

[Don Ho]

Tough to keep it to 5......so many favorites over the years.

Probably the worst thing about being old.........too many players to chose from. 

dude, were like fine wine

[Don Ho]

And Don Ho, do you remember Charle Young as a rookie in '73 scoring on an end around play against the Vikings? Unbelieveable run - he must have carried about half the Vikings defense (and this was back when they had one hell of a defense!) into the end zone with him. 

very well!  was that not also the game where Carmichael was called for "hurdling" over a viking defender?  i loved that team with Roman Gabriel at QB.  that was a great draft with young and seismore leading the way.  also was Mike McCormick's downfall as he basically traded away every high draft pick we had for Bergey and some others.  I don't think we had a number 1 pick until 1979 when Vermeil took Jerry Robinson out of UCLA.

[Sgt PSN]

Tough to keep it to 5......so many favorites over the years.

Probably the worst thing about being old.........too many players to chose from. 

dude, were like fine wine

You get young people drunk?  If you ever make it to a game, I don't want to be there. 

[Munson]

Yeah, but I do.

[Rome]

[QB Eagles]

Ike, Cecil Martin, and BBitch were there:

[SunMo]

it was a pathetic ceremony

they showed a highlight package while they got him off the field, so he couldn't even get one last ovation....awesome