By the current sports landscape, it’s a little tough to believe and a little tougher to understand if you didn’t live through it. But at one time, a bizzaro sports world existed in Philadelphia in 1976, where top was on bottom, and bottom was on top. Yes, the Flyers were the No. 1 team in the city, looking for a third-straight Stanley Cup and a terror to everyone who played “The Broad Street Bullies.” The Phillies were on the brink of their age of enlightenment with a farm system that produced Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt, along with Larry Bowa, Greg Luzinski and Bob Boone, and eventually their first World Series crown, and the 76ers had just acquired Julius “Dr.
Dick Vermeil saved the Eagles
