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Well, they presumably only play once every four years.

And also... it's the Jets :)

Yea, it's only been 10 games. Even for perfectly random coin tosses, the chance that you get the same result 9 times as the result of the first toss is 1 in 2^9 = 512. With lots of potential team pairings, and the obvious fact that teams can be above/below average over 4+ years (correlating the outcomes), this isn't that crazy.

http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/team...

There's only 496 pairings with 32 teams.

The number of pairings between teams that play infrequently will be quite a bit smaller.

And never played in the Super Bowl...because Eagles :)

Brett Favre and Peyton Manning are the only quarterbacks to have beaten all 32 NFL teams.

Had to google to see this in real internet life. It is true. Insane.

I'm an Eagles fan and I did not know this. I used to end up spending time with an amazingly annoying Jets fan, this would have been a fun tidbit to bring up repeatedly.