{"id":6438,"date":"2018-09-05T02:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2018-09-05T02:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:53:11","slug":"nfl-flashback-2018-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/nfl-flashback-2018-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Flashback (2018 Week 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 NFL regular season is upon us, and I&#8217;m using this occasion to make a change to the weekly NFL flashback series. Rather than post a gallery for each week&#8217;s matchup I&#8217;m going to highlight one cover of interest.<\/p>\n<p>This week I have to go with something for the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. They&#8217;re hosting the Atlanta Falcons, so I went back all the way to the first regular season game between the two franchises.<\/p>\n<p>On September 18, 1966 the Eagles hosted the Falcons at Franklin Field during Week 2. Hi Y&#8217;all Falcons indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/1966\/09-18_atl-phi.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=nfl\/seasons\/1966\/images\/nfl-game-program_1966-09-18_atl-phi.jpg\" alt=\"PHILADELPHIA EAGLES VS. ATLANTA FALCONS (SEPTEMBER 18, 1966)\" width=\"600\" height=\"779\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Eagles QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SneaNo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norm Snead<\/a> (#16) under center with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RingJi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Ringo<\/a> (#54). Philly came away with a 23-10 win thanks to a TD rush from Snead and a 114-yard, 1 TD performance from running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LangIz00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Izzy Lang<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For week 1 of the 2018 NFL season, let&#8217;s revisit the first regular season meeting between the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[21,195,91,136,14],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1960s","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-programs","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}