Bucko Kilroy is finally going into the Eagles Hall of Fame.

One of the greatest players in franchise history, Kilroy played 13 seasons in the NFL and was considered by many to be the dirtiest player in the NFL. His classic response to that accusation can be seen in this NFL Films feature about him.

“It was smash-mouth, or what I called mash-mouth football in those years,” Kilroy once said. “The rules were different. First, you played two ways up to 1950. Another thing, forearms were legal.”

He was a two-way lineman who was part of the franchise’s first two NFL championship teams in 1948 and 1949. He was also on the 1947 team that lost in the NFL championship game.

Kilroy’s career started in 1943 with the Steagles, a combination of players from the Eagles and Steelers that was forc

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