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Eagles pay tribute to Johnson at memorial service

August 8th, 2009

THEY memorialized Jim Johnson in a football stadium yesterday, which certainly was appropriate, given how much of Johnson’s life was spent in such places. The posh lounge in Lincoln Financial Field might not have been exactly to Jim’s taste - a cramped coach’s office or a locker room would have been more the natural environment of the 68-year-old Eagles defensive coordinator, who passed away from metastatic melanoma on July 28. But it would be hard to fit 300 people into a coach’s office or even a locker room, and that many players, former players, coaches, former coaches, friends, family and various invited figures from the sports community showed up to honor the life of a man who …

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