Coach Dick Vermeil has made the unprecedented decision to hold open try-outs for the team. Out of all the people that show up, there s one guy that makes an impression: Vince Papale. Football is a ...

NEW YORK - AUGUST 23: (L-R) Vince Papale, for whom the film is based, actor Mark Wahlberg and coach Dick Vermeil attend Walt Disney Pictures’ premiere of “Invincible” at the Ziegfeld Theatre August 23 ...

Philadelphia is the town of blue-collar workers and the rags to riches story of Rocky Balboa, or even a Vince Papale. During the 1976 season, a then 30-year-old Papale earned a spot on Dick Vermeil’s ...

It was a September afternoon in 2002, more than a quarter-century after he'd completed an impossible journey to become a 30-year-old rookie walk-on with the Eagles in 1976. My initial thought when I ...

New York - Vince Papale once lived a dream. Now he's living a second dream by revisiting the first. A substitute teacher and bartender who never played college football, he tried out for the ...