Jul 06

NFC East

The Philadelphia Bulldogs were a roller hockey team owned by Tony Danza and coached by Dave Schultz before the Eagles borrowed their name

PHILADELPHIA — It was the summer of 1994, but for a moment it may have felt like the winter of 1974. Forget that the players wore rollerblades, the puck was plastic, and the floor was turquoise. This was the Montreal Forum and Dave Schultz — then the head coach of the Philadelphia Bulldogs — was still “the Hammer.” He reached over the glass, grabbed Yvan Cournoyer by his tie, and lifted his old rival off the ground. “They cheated,” Schultz said by phone nearly 30 years later. “They cheated. They did.” It has become a thing in the last few months to refer to the Eagles as “the Philadelphia Bull…

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