PHILADELPHIA — It was the summer of 1994, but for a moment it may have felt like the winter of 1974. Forget that the players wore rollerblades, the puck was plastic, and the floor was turquoise. This was the Montreal Forum and Dave Schultz — then the head coach of the Philadelphia Bulldogs — was still “the Hammer.” He reached over the glass, grabbed Yvan Cournoyer by his tie, and lifted his old rival off the ground.
“They cheated,” Schultz said by phone nearly 30 years later. “They cheated. They did.”
It has become a thing in the last few months to refer to the Eagles as “the Philadelphia Bulldogs” after they added a cast of former University of Georgia Bulldogs in the last two offseasons. The Eagles drafted two Bulldogs in 2022, three more this April, and traded for former Georgia star D’Andre Swift. The Birds are the Dawgs.
