Mark Bowden, the former Inquirer writer and author of Black Hawk Down, recently hung out with Eagles’ coach Andy Reid to break down some game film for a story in The Atlantic. Yeah, that sounds cool. Surely Reid could give Bowden plenty of insight on the finer points of the game.
But instead of watching a recent Eagles game, Bowden and Reid poured through the 1958 NFL Championship between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants – the game most football historians call the greatest game ever played.
Here’s the caveat: Reid had never seen the game before,