Sharon Wentz has been bleeding green for five decades.

Back in the day, she rooted for Ron Jaworski, Wilbert Montgomery, and Harold Carmichael.

These days, she cheers on the likes of Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown and company.

Through all the highs and lows, all the ups and downs, Wentz has stuck by her Philadelphia Eagles.

It’s been that way from the time she watched her first Eagles game on television in the early 1970s.

Family tradition

Wentz became an Eagles fan at the age of 8 thanks to her late brother, Bobby Beers.

“I used to go up to his house every Sunday to play board games, and I always seemed to get there when an Eagles game was on,” Wentz said. “It got to the point where I would go up there just to watch it.”

From that point, Wentz said it escalated from year to year to the point she began watching the games during her high school years.

“Me and him used to go to a home game once a month, sometimes we drove, sometimes we went on buses when I was in high school,” she said. “Even after I was (first) married, me and him used to go even after that.”

A lifelong resident of Lehighton, Wentz said she’s always been drawn to the action, and added most of the games she’s attended were at the former Veterans Stadium.

“The excitement, some of the players, going down to the wire,” she said. “It was just exciting; I loved going to the games and the adrenaline.”

Wentz cited Jaworski and Montgomery among some of her early favorites, and purchased some of their memorabilia.

“I got all the jerseys of anybody I really liked,” she said. “I went to get their autographs at Laneco.”

Wentz recalled a time that she went up to Panther Valley to see the Philadelphia Eagles play the Panther Valley faculty in a game of basketball and got autographs.

She said she also had a VIP pass one year at the Eagles training camp in Bethlehem, where she got to be on the field with all the Eagles and went up to then-coach Ray Rhodes.

For her 50th birthday several years ago, Wentz said her son, Brandon Zellner, got her tickets at Lincoln Financial Field.

Other favorites Wentz cited include former barefoot field goal kicker Tony Franklin, former defensive back Brian Dawkins and former quarterback Donovan McNabb among many of her other favorites.

Her all-time favorite Eagle? Former All-Pro center Jason Kelce.

But, while she has her favorites, Wentz said she’s more about the team than the individuals.

“I’m not about one player,” she said. “I’m all about the team.”

Wentz is far from the only Eagles fan in her family, as her sister, Carol Kuhns, nephew, Travis Beers (Bobby’s son) and Wentz’s own son, Brandon Zellner, are also die-hard fans.

“My parents were never involved in sports, but my brother (Bobby) got my (late) mom, Ethel, watching the Eagles,” she said. “I didn’t really give my kids another choice to pick another team; my granddaughters don’t have any choice.”

As for her other son, Joey Zellner, well, he goes against that grain, according to Wentz.

“Joey’s a die-hard (now Washington Commanders, formerly) Redskins fan,” she said. “He got that from his father …”

Once-in-a-lifetime moment

This past Sunday, Wentz said she received a dream-come-true courtesy of her son Brandon and his wife, Amanda Zellner.

“Friday night my daughter-in-law called me and said, ‘Hey, get ready, we’re going to Philly on Sunday,’ ” Wentz said. “That’s all they had to say, and I was ready.”

At that, Wentz said the three of them traveled to Lincoln Financial Field to watch the Eagles send-off party.

She said that while the gates opened at 9 a.m., they were there at 8:30 waiting in the cold with several thousand other fans.

While there, she said they got to see the cheerleaders all lined up, the Philadelphia Eagles Drum Band, and had photo ops.

From there, Wentz said, they went over to the tunnel, where they waited for about a half-hour.

“We went through the tunnel, which was totally awesome, and you came out the same way the Eagles come out through the tunnel,” she said. “The field was there, and I immediately started to cry, because that was my dream to be on the field; I immediately thought of my brother, and what he would have done if he had the chance to do that.”

Wentz pointed out that would have never happened if not for her son and daughter-in-law.

“If it wouldn’t have been for them, I wouldn’t have been there,” she said. “She (Amanda) is the one that really made it happen for me; she got the tickets for us.”

Prediction

So, who does Wentz think will ultimately come away with the Vince Lombardi Trophy when her beloved Eagles matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans?

Why, the Eagles, of course.

“It just seems like they came together this year; they work well, their offense and their defense,” Wentz said. “I am not at all worried about the Chiefs; they don’t have quite the team they had when they beat (the Eagles) by three points (in the Super Bowl) two years ago.”

And why is Wentz so confident in her Eagles this time around?

“Just the talent, the team as a whole,” she said. “I always was a big Jalen Hurts fan, Barkley, not only his talent, he’s local being from Whitehall, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith.”

Unlike years past, Wentz won’t be rooting for her team around these parts.

The last time the Eagles won the Super Bowl, she said they had a big party at her nephew Travis Beers’ house, and afterward, they went over to the cemetery where his father, her brother, Bobby, is buried and took green balloons.

“He (Bobby) saw a couple of Super Bowls and the Eagles never won; that first one they won (in 2018), was very emotional,” she said. “You’re happy, but still don’t forget why you are so happy about the team and the love you have for the team.”

This time around, Wentz will be in Florida at a local sports bar watching the game.

“We will not be anywhere in Florida that doesn’t bleed green,” she said. “If there’s too many red shirts, we’re going into the next one.”

And Wentz will no doubt have every ounce of her decorated in Eagles attire.

“I just love the team and spirit, and it’s in your home state,” she said. “You can just go to a game for the day and come home.”