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Throwback Thursday: Sonny Gets Back At Eagles

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Sonny Jurgensen couldn’t believe it at first -- and most of Redskins Nation couldn’t, either.

On Aug. 1, 1964, Jurgensen got the news that he was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to one of their biggest rivals, the Washington Redskins.

“I was having lunch, and a guy walks in and said, ‘I see where you were just traded to the Washington Redskins.’ I said, ‘Don’t tell me that…that’s not true.’ I said, ‘You’re kidding.’ He said, ‘No, I’m not kidding, I just heard it.’ I couldn’t believe it,” Jurgensen recalled.