What was the Philadelphia Eagles football team named after?
In 1933 Bert Bell and Ludlow Wray purchased the rights to a Philadelphia football team called the Yellow Jackets. They called the new club the Philadelphia Eagles in honor of the symbol Franklin Roosevelt had chosen to represent the New Deal and the National Recovery legislation. They chose blue and yellow for the team colors because those were Philadelphia’s city colors. Source: Professional Sports Team Histories: v.3 Football, 1994, p.377, Michael L. LaBlanc, 796.
