A tradition unlike any other… the future practice squads of the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles doing battle in the latter stages of the summer.
Both sides will be seeing more green than usual on Friday night, as they’ll do preseason battle at Lincoln Financial Field (7:30 p.m. ET, WCBS) Such a ritual probably doesn’t rival beach trips to the Jersey Shore or Montauk, but it’s nonetheless been kept alive for two decades.
This time around, the exhibition has been moved to the opening slot of the preseason slate rather than its traditional spot at the end, one that produced one of the most exhilarating equalizers in the history of consequence-free football in 2021, with the Jets tying an eight-point game with a last-second heave and two-point conversion at MetLife Stadium.