Arlen Specter: “Before yielding, let me make one other comment; that is my congratulations to the New England Patriots. As a…”

“Before yielding, let me make one other comment; that is my congratulations to the New England Patriots. As a long-standing Philadelphia Eagle fan, going back to the days of Franklin Field, as those in Philadelphia would understand, where the Eagles played in the confines of the ballpark of the University of Pennsylvania and the features were Jimmy Brown running for the Cleveland Browns, tackled most of the time by Chuck Bednarik of the Philadelphia Eagles, in the great championship game of 1960, which the Eagles won 17 to 13. The glory days were recounted again in the New York Times. You have to go back to 1960 to find glory days for Philadelphia football. But it is recounted how Chuck Bednarik tackled Jim Taylor, the great running back of the Green Bay Packers, and sat on him until time had expired, and the Eagles also won 17 to 13. Franklin Field seated a few over 60,000. It is now reputed that about 900,000 people were there; 900,000 people claim to have been there to have seen that game. I was there and am prepared to say so in open court and even take an affidavit on it. It was a thrilling game yesterday. I was in Jacksonville. It was reported by one of the local firms that there were some 60,000 Eagle fans in Jacksonville who did not have tickets. And when you moved through the city, the green was everywhere, with '5' for Donovan McNabb and 81 for Terrell Owens.”