India, Sept. 4 -- The Philadelphia Eagles announced on September 1 that Boyz II Men, a local music group, will be performing the national anthem before they take over the field on Thursday (September 4) for their regular season opener against the Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field.

As soon as the band was asked to perform the honors this season, all three members, being Philadelphia natives, jumped at the opportunity. "Well, we have to do it because Wan' (Wanya Morris) will kill us if we don't," band manager Joe Mulvihill recalls Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman, the other two members of the band, saying, as reported by the official website of the Eagles. "There's like an unspoken word that when it comes to the Eagles, the answer ...