ORLANDO – As the league’s owners, general managers, head coaches and key administrators gathered here on Sunday to start the NFL’s Annual Meeting, Eagles President Don Smolenski took it all in with a new perspective. A Sunday night address from Commissioner Roger Goodell, who hosted a panel of the owners, including Jeffrey Lurie, of the final four teams from the 2017 season discussing Operating In A Changing Environment, included a video tribute to the 2017 NFL season which, of course, culminated with the Eagles’ win in Super Bowl LII.
There was, then, a very real tribute to the Eagles in a whole-league setting and that was very, very satisfying to the team’s traveling party that includes Chairman/CEO Jeffrey Lurie, head coach Doug Pederson, Howie Roseman, Joe Douglas and Smolenski.