Philadelphia Eagles How the Philadelphia Eagles became the NFL's wokest team Amid a renaissance of athlete activism, the NFC champions rate among the league leaders of the new social awareness Rodney McLeod and Malcolm Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles raise their fists as team-mate Chris Long stands alongside them before a November game. That’s what top Philadelphia civil rights attorney David Rudovsky thought as he listened to Philadelphia Eagles players Malcolm Jenkins, Chris Long, Torrey Smith and Rodney McLeod interrogate city leaders. But the more Eagles players like Jenkins, Long, Smith and McLeod spoke up the better the team played. He skipped last year’s as well when he was a member of the Eagles’ Super Bowl opponent, the New England Patriots. The Eagles’ Super Bowl run has brought so much joy to his city.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2018 14:15 UTC