Sportstravaganza

When the Phillies were in the World Series in in 2008 and 2009, my friends and I were able to fulfill a rare double header - an Eagles game and World Series game all in the same glorious day.

So took a look at this fall's schedules to see if we could have a repeat of a sportstravaganza in South Philly and, unfortunately, the only possible Phillies home playoff game that coincides with an Eagles home game is this Sunday, which is a lock.

The Phillies will be hosting game 2 of the NLDS and the Eagles play the Niners.

The Eagles next two games after that are road games and then they have a bye. Their next home game is vs. Dallas at the end of October, by which time the World Series is over.

Given the Eagles' schedule oddity - two away games to open the season, two home games (and the latest home opener since 1971), followed by two more away games and then a bye, I have to wonder if the NFL didn't purposely schedule the Eagles' games so that there would NOT be baseball and football games on the same day as much as possible.