The Foles Formula: Five Life Lessons from the Most Unlikely Hero

Pete Long
18 min readJan 30, 2019
Philadelphia Eagles QB Nick Foles consoles WR Alshon Jeffrey after a crucial dropped pass in the 2019 NFC Divisional Round Game against the New Orleans Saints, which ended the Eagles season.

This is an excerpt from a letter to the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl LII Champion Quarterback, Nick Foles, who overcame adversity and critics in leading the team to the Lombardi Trophy in 2017–18 as a backup. More importantly, Foles exemplified what it means to be a genuinely kind-hearted individual in a world where those are hard to come by. If you don’t know his story, read

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Pete Long

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