INSIDE THE Panasonic Club of Lincoln Financial Field, Bill Bergey charged from the room's threshold toward Jeremiah Trotter as if he were 40 years younger, a beeline to the target, arriving with emotion.
Separated by eras, the two men are tethered by both the shared experience of the position they played and the intensity with which they played it, an intensity that put them into the team's Hall of Fame, and thus into that room Sunday.
There were other Eagles Hall of Famers there for the luncheon to honor Trotter and longtime broadcaster Merrill Reese as the latest inductees: Brian Westbrook and Mike Quick, to name a couple.