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The 'Boys host la fee verte on Sunday afternoon. A "fact" about the team from "foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia":During road trips, the Eagles play Scrapple--a game where they identify bits of snout, intestine, ear, trotter and tail in their breakfast dish. The first to find something from the...
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The ‘Boys host la fee verte on Sunday afternoon. A “fact” about the team from “foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia”:

During road trips, the Eagles play Scrapple–a game where they identify bits of snout, intestine, ear, trotter and tail in their breakfast dish. The first to find something from the nose, middle and tail of a pig wins.*

*Source: The Milton Hasbro game company, who add that before joining ESPN, former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski pitched this as a family board game. Note: the “foul, fetid” line is from the serious, scholarly musical documentary 1776.

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