The legend of Steve Van Buren – whose slashing running style revolutionized pro football in the 1940s and who quit after eight explosive seasons and two NFL championships as the league’s then-all-time rusher – continues to intrigue Eagles fans, even with the game morphing into a multibillion-dollar entertainment empire that will be capped with next Sunday’s Super Bowl spectacle that would be unrecognizable to the sport’s “Greatest Generation.”
It took 66 years for an Eagle – LeSean McCoy – to finally surpass Van Buren’s 1945 feat of 18 touchdowns, and it required a 16-game schedule. Van Buren did it in only 10 games. Continue Honduras Football Player tribute: The Greatest Eagle from Philadelphia Daily News here.
