Time Machine

                              The Eagles Last played at Franklin Field on Dec. 20, 1970, when a Birds win over the Steelers mercifully ended a 3-10-1 season.
                              Here are some of the other things going on in the world around that time:

• Musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died from drug overdoses.
• Charles de Gaulle, the most prominent French general of World War II, also passed away.
• Casey Kasem's American Top 40 countdown radio show debuted.
• The groundbreaking sitcom "All in the Family" hit the air.
• The Vietnam War raged on.
• The AFL merged with the NFL.
• Carroll O' Connor was a big hit as Archie Bunker.
• Frazier took down Ali in the 1971 "Fight of the Century."
• The first "Monday Night Football" game was played on Sept. 21, 1970.
• The Colts won that season's Super Bowl, Nebraska ruled college football and Jim Plunkett won the Heisman.
• Cult leader Charles Manson was convicted in the murders of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
• Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali in the spring of 1971 at Madison Square Garden.
• Villanova's men's basketball team made it to the Final Four.
• Richard Nixon was the president, James Tate was Philadelphia's mayor and Milton Shapp was about to take over for Ray Shafer as Pennsylvania's governor.  His gubernatorial counterpart in New Jersey was Bill Cahill.