What If Carson Wentz Didn't Get Hurt? What If Kawhi Leonard Missed the Shot? What if the Phillies signed Manny Machado instead of Bryce Harper? Firebrand sports radio host Joe Giglio tackles the biggest unknown scenarios in Philadelphia sports history.
All Philadelphia sports fans have wondered how things might have been different if our teams won more, stopped breaking our hearts, and commissioned more parades down Broad Street. But have you ever thought about how different things could have been if little moments went the other way? If a tipped pass was actually caught? If a trade never happened? If a last-minute, buzzer-beating shot rimmed out?
This book is an attempt to answer those questions, the ones that gnaw at every single Philadelphia sports fan. The moments that could have become memories for the good—or the bad. The decisions that teams want back, and the moves that could have led to iconic moments. Legacies redefined. All-time moments zapped from memory. Close calls. Revisionist history.
There’s an alternative reality in which Philadelphia is Titletown, USA. And there’s one in which the most popular team in town is still searching for its first Super Bowl championship. A way in which a legacy is totally reshaped, and how a budding star is traded away in the most controversial trade in city history. And even how a disgraced former American icon lands in the city of Brotherly Love, perhaps altering the course of legal history.
This dive into the unknown will take the reader through the ups and downs of what was, what could have been, and where it would have taken us all.
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What If?
Tackling the Biggest Unanswered Questions in Philadelphia Sports History
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - What If Carson Wentz Didn’t Get Hurt?
- Chapter 2 - What If the Eagles Never Fired Andy Reid?
- Chapter 3 - What If Alshon Jeffery Caught It?
- Chapter 4 - What If the Eagles Chose Nick Foles over Carson Wentz?
- Chapter 5 - What If Kawhi Leonard Missed the Shot?
- Chapter 6 - What If the Phillies and Scott Rolen Mended Fences?
- Chapter 7 - What If the Penalty Flag Wasn’t Thrown on James Bradberry?
- Chapter 8 - What If the Eagles Drafted Ricky Williams over Donovan McNabb?
- Chapter 9 - What If Randall Cunningham Didn’t Get Hurt in 1991?
- Chapter 10 - What If the Sixers Drafted Another Star to Pair with Allen Iverson?
- Chapter 11 - What If the Fog Bowl Wasn’t Foggy?
- Chapter 12 - What If the Eagles Drafted O. J. Simpson?
- Chapter 13 - What If the Eagles Redid Terrell Owens’s Contract?
- Chapter 14 - What If Sam Hinkie Was Allowed to Complete The Process?
- Chapter 15 - What If the Eagles Fired Howie Roseman When Chip Kelly Took Power?
- Chapter 16 - What If the Eagles Left for Phoenix in 1984?
- Chapter 17 - What If Eric Lindros Stayed Healthy?
- Chapter 18 - What If Ryan Howard Didn’t Rupture his Achilles?
- Chapter 19 - What If Jay Wright Left Villanova for the Sixers?
- Chapter 20 - What if the Phillies Signed Manny Machado over Bryce Harper?
- Chapter 21 - What If the Phillies Traded for Barry Bonds?
- Chapter 22 - What If the A’s Never Left Philadelphia?
- Chapter 23 - What If the Eagles Drafted Justin Jefferson over Jalen Reagor?
- Chapter 24 - What If the 1964 Phillies Didn’t Collapse?
- Chapter 25 - What If Jalen Carter Didn’t Sack Matthew Stafford?
- Chapter 26 - Would It Have Been Worth Changing?
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Publisher
Brookline BooksYear
2026Topic
HistorySubtopic
North American HistoryeBook ISBN
9781955041614
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