“I remember sitting on the table with my pads on,” Klecko says. “Other guys were going out to warm up, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the TV. I couldn’t believe what was happening.”
What was happening was nothing short of a football miracle. The Eagles, who appeared hopelessly out of the NFC playoff race just one month earlier, were suddenly alive. They had won three of their last four games to improve their record to 8-6-1 and they went into the final week of the regular season with a chance to sneak into the playoffs.
It was a ridiculous longshot when the day started.