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The Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Washington Commanders successful this past Sunday's NFC Championship crippled to gain a spot successful Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans.
Seven-time Super Bowl victor and FOX Sports broadcaster Tom Brady was successful the broadcast booth astatine Lincoln Financial Field for the Eagles' 55-23 victory.
At 1 constituent during the playoff game, tv cameras panned to erstwhile Eagles backmost and Super Bowl LII MVP Nick Foles, who was sitting successful 1 of the stadium's suites.
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Spotting Foles successful the assemblage prompted Brady, who suffered 1 of his 3 vocation Super Bowl defeats to the Foles-led Eagles, to callback the infamous loss.
While Brady has appeared successful a grounds 10 Super Bowls, Foles and Eli Manning are the lone starting quarterbacks to person knocked disconnected the decorated erstwhile NFL prima successful the large game.
Brady utilized Foles' NFC rubric crippled quality arsenic an accidental to admit helium does not harbor immoderate jealousy toward the erstwhile Eagles awesome caller. "Nick, I don't hatred you. I'm conscionable jealous of you. You caught it, I didn't," Brady said aft FOX Sports pb play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt jokingly asked Brady if helium knew who Foles competed against successful the Super Bowl successful February 2018.
Brady's "you caught it" remark referenced the celebrated "Philly Special" instrumentality play during Super Bowl LII. Foles lined up successful the backfield connected the play, earlier violative lineman Jason Kelce snapped the shot to moving backmost Corey Clement.
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The moving backmost past pitched the shot to choky extremity Trey Burton, who recovered Foles successful the extremity portion for a one-yard touchdown. Foles wrote his sanction successful past books by becoming the archetypal subordinate successful Super Bowl past to propulsion and drawback a touchdown walk successful the NFL's yearly title game.
While Foles successfully hauled successful the walk thrown his mode during Super Bowl LII, Brady failed to drawback a walk from 1 of his wide receivers aboriginal successful that aforesaid game. Eagles fans person not fto Brady hide astir dropping what would person been a archetypal down.
"I get reminded of that play each clip I spot an Eagles fan," Brady said via SiriusXM successful 2022.
"I definite arsenic hellhole can't drawback anything, everyone's seen that driblet against the Eagles successful the Super Bowl, but I tin propulsion it a small bit," Brady joked successful 2021 – his 2nd play with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – during a postgame interview.
Brady won six Super Bowl titles with the New England Patriots, earlier winning his seventh title with the Buccaneers. In February 2023, Brady announced helium was retiring "for good."
Foles' 2nd stint with the Eagles ended aft the 2018 season. He went connected to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. He past appeared successful an NFL crippled successful 2022.
The Eagles drafted backmost Jalen Hurts successful the 2nd circular successful 2020. Hurts helped the Eagles beforehand to Super Bowl LVII, but suffered a 38-35 nonaccomplishment to the Kansas City Chiefs successful that game. This year's large game, connected Feb. 9 successful New Orleans, volition beryllium a rematch of the Super Bowl from 2 years ago.
A triumph implicit the Eagles would unafraid an unprecedented 3rd consecutive Super Bowl rubric for the Chiefs. But, if Philly is victorious, it would people the franchise's 2nd Super Bowl championship.
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