Flashback Friday: Washington Vs Philly – The Body Bag Game
The Body Bag Game. It was thirty-one years ago today – November 12th, 1990 – on a Monday Night football game at Veteran’s Stadium. A nationwide audience watched Washington lose 28-14 to the Philadelphia Eagles in what is widely regarded as one of the roughest games of football ever played.
The game is called the Body Bag Game because before the game, Eagles Coach Buddy Ryan told reporters that “they’ll have to be carted off in body bags.”
During the game, an Eagles player reacted to one of the Washington injuries by asking, “Do you guys need any more body bags?”
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