The Philadelphia Eagles and their fan base aren’t ones to absorb sleights — real or perceived — lying down.
The fans, in the throes of a miserable season in 1968, exercised their frustration by throwing snowballs at a teenager dressed as Santa Claus during a halftime performance. Fifty years later, players donned dog masks after their NFC divisional-round playoff victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Jan. 13, a shot at those labeling the conference’s No. 1 seed as a longshot underdog once its second-year quarterback, Carson Wentz, was lost for the rest of the season in December because of a knee injury.