Boston’s Connection to Philadelphia Eagles Owner Jeffrey Lurie

With the New England Patriots not in the big game, many local football fans are finding it hard to pick a team to root for in Super Bowl LIX.

Swifties may be siding with the Kansas City Chiefs, but Bostonians may be leaning towards the Philadelphia Eagles after discovering some new information.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is from Boston.

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He probably spent his childhood eating fluffernutters, going to Fenway Park, drinking Dunkin' and parking his car in Harvard Yard.

Lurie attended many local schools in the area. His younger years were spent at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, an independent co-ed day school in Cambridge. He went on to earn a B.A. from Clark University in Worcester, a Master's from Boston University and a doctorate from Brandeis.

Needless to say, he's wicked smaht.

So how does a well-educated Bostonian end up owning a professional football team? Well, making smart financial moves is something with which his family is very familiar. His grandfather founded one of the largest operators of drive-in theaters. The company grew and with the guidance of Lurie's uncle, it became a $3.7 billion conglomerate on Chestnut Hill.

Lurie once considered buying the Patriots, but at a hefty price of $150 million, his uncle said it wasn't a smart move. I bet he regrets that now, but hey, it was 1993 and we were far from the Tom Brady years and Pats dynasty we know now.

The following year, Lurie and his mom purchased the Philadelphia Eagles for $190 million – a solid gamble for Lurie. As of December 2024, the Eagles were valued at $8.3 billion. That's a lot of cheesesteaks.

Not too shabby for a Boston boy.