Eagles Facts

In a letter to his daughter in 1784, Benjamin Franklin criticized the Bald Eagle as a bird of 'bad moral character' and wrote that the Wild Turkey was 'a much more respectable Bird.' While he never actually proposed the turkey as the national symbol, his colorful comparison has fueled a popular myth ever since.

During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

Eagles can attack, kill, and carry away young deer fawns, with the heaviest documented load being a 15-pound mule deer fawn carried by a bald eagle.

Joe Walsh of the Eagles was 20 months old when his father, an Air Force jet instructor, died in a 1949 collision over Okinawa. There was no support system for families like his. In 2017 Walsh started VetsAid, a benefit concert he plays himself, with the proceeds going to veterans' groups in that year's host city. Eight shows in, he is still showing up.