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During the great depression, FDR made a series of New Deal programs to get money circulating and to create jobs. One of the programs were the NRA National Recovery Act. To promote the program FDR made buttons with Blue eagles on them. This became the symbol for the program. Then in 1933, after the Frankford Yellow jackets went bankrupt, new owner Bert Bell got the inspiration from the insignia. Bert went on to make the Eagles

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The club was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets after a syndicate led by future NFL commissioner Bert Bell purchased the rights to a Philadelphia franchise from the league.

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The Eagles were an expansion team in the NFL, coming into the league in 1933. They have always played in Philadelphia.

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