After that fiasco, not only did the team get a new head coach and new GM, but a new owner as well (Leonard Tose).
The Eagles ended up with the 3rd overall pick, and those knuckleheads chose Purdue running back Leroy Keyes, who was less than adequate in his 4-year Eagles' career. Not only was he no O.J. Simpson, he wasn't even a Tom Woodeshick!
By the way, after the Eagles picked Keyes at #3, THE STEELERS PICKED JOE GREENE AT #4, then the Bengals picked QB Greg Cook at #5.
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Here are the Eagles cards for 1968. After a 4-year hiatus, in 1968 the NFL cards were once again issued by Topps. (From 1964-67, NFL cards were produced by Philadelphia Gum Company, while the AFL cards were produced by Topps.) Now Topps issued a combined NFL/AFL set beginning in 1968.
The downside for collectors is that while there were 12 cards per NFL team in 1967, now there were only 8 (and AFL teams only had 7 cards each).
The 1968 cards were split into 2 series. In Series 1, the NFL players appeared in the uniform of whatever team they were playing for in 1963, the last year Topps had taken NFL player photos.
Topps used new photos for most of the 2nd series cards:
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Oh the '68 Eagles I remember them. At midseason, they played Pittsburgh with both teams coming in winless. The media called it the "OJ Simpson Bowl". The Steelers won the game but by losing the Eagles had "won" OJ. Then the Eagles played a real Mud Bowl at Detroit on Thanksgiving and won, 12-0, on 4 FGs, and won again the next week. Maybe the media forgot the draft was now a "common draft" with the AFL teams and Buffalo lost out to finish 1-12-1 to the Falcons and Eagles 2-12 and Steelers 2-11-1. So Buffalo "won" the right to draft OJ.
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