<P> The team consistently ranks in the top three in attendance and has sold out every game since the 1999 season . In a Sports Illustrated poll of 321 NFL players, Eagles fans were selected the most intimidating fans in the NFL . </P> <P> Midway through the 1931 season, the Frankford Yellow Jackets went bankrupt and ceased operations . After more than a year of searching for a suitable replacement, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to a syndicate headed by Bert Bell and Lud Wray and awarded them the franchise rights of the failed Yellow Jackets organization . The Bell - Wray group had to pay an entry fee of $3,500 (equal to $40,230 today) and assumed a total debt of $11,000 that was owed to three other NFL franchises . Drawing inspiration from the Blue Eagle insignia of the National Recovery Administration--the centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal--Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles . Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the aforementioned period of dormancy . Furthermore, almost no Yellow Jackets players were on the Eagles' first roster . The Eagles, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the now - defunct Cincinnati Reds, joined the NFL as expansion teams . </P> <P> In 1937, the Eagles moved to Shibe Park (renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1954) and played their home games at the stadium through 1957, except for the 1941 season, which was played at Municipal Stadium, where they had played from 1936 to 1939 . </P> <P> To accommodate football at Shibe Park during the winter, management set up stands in right field, parallel to 20th Street . Some 20 feet high, these "east stands" had 22 rows of seats . The goalposts stood along the first base line and in left field . The uncovered east stands enlarged capacity of Shibe Park to over 39,000, but the Eagles rarely drew more than 25 to 30,000 . </P>

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