E-A-G-L-E-What?

The Philadelphia Eagles went to the Superbowl three years ago. The day before the game, my parents came to the city.

“The Eagles haven’t won a Superbowl in I don’t know how long,” my father said at dinner. “I think the last game was in 1982… best thing that happened that year.”

“I was born in 1982,” I told him.

“Oh. Two good things!”

To recover, my mother decided to have the entire family do the Eagles cheer in the middle of the Chinese restaurant.

“Everyone take a letter,” she instructed. “I’ll start - E!”

“A!” I said.

“G!” my brother played along.

We looked at my father.

“What?” he asked.

We never finished the cheer that day, but my roommates and I did it about 30 times the next day at our Superbowl party. We made green margaritas and fashioned a football-shaped cake cut by hand from a very large sheet cake pan.

All in all, I think it would have made for a good submission for Heluva Good’s “Make Your Party a Heluva Good!(R) Party Big Game Contest.”

"We're looking for people who love Heluva Good products and who know how to have a Heluva Good time during their Big Game parties," said Lynne Bohan, Heluva Good spokesperson. "If you think your party is a Heluva Good party, there's a Heluva Good chance you'll win a Heluva Good trip to next year's Big Game."

Like our party's incessant cheering during the game, no amount of repetition in that quote could have improved things.

The Eagles lost and not even the football-shaped cake that we slapped together in the fourth quarter helped.

But there was always 1982 – that was a Heluva Good year.