For the Eagles to trade two first-round draft choices and a second-round pick for a player, that guy had better be SOME kind of a player.
He was.
Philadelphia acquired five-year veteran linebacker Bill Bergey from Cincinnati on July 10, 1974. But not before he had revealed plans to leave the Bengals by signing a future contract with the upstart World Football League.
“It was for the money. I’ll make no bones about it,” Bergey said. “The World Football League was going to give me about five times as much money as I was making in the NFL.