Who is your all-time favorite Redskin?

Billy Kilmer was the first Redskin name I learned when I first became a fan. So he will always be up there. After that the list is long... Riggins, Mark Mosley, Dexter Manley, all of the Posse, Gerald Riggs, Cooley, Portis...

mosley, butz Riggo and Green

I can't really choose one. Art Monk, Dave Butz, and Riggo are definitely among the best. Sean Taylor, however, was simply amazing to watch. He made plays on the ball AND would deliver knock-out hits. He made me smile so many times and yell "oooooooooohhhh," that he's definitely on the list, if not at the very top of it.

remember how Dave Butz use to have his kid carry his helmet off the field? that was cool.

Darrell Green is a punk ass bitch. I love nostalgia, but he doesn't deserve all the praise he gets. Yeah, he's fast, yeah he caught Tony Dorsett, and he was a great football player. I was at a private car show in Manassas and saw him walking around with one of his boys. I walked up to him, and said..."Mr. Green, can you sign my hat?" and he said..."No Son, I don't do autographs." So, I said "ok, thanks anyway." Shook his hand, and started to walk away. Then this mentally and physically challenged boy carted up to him in his motorized wheel chair, and the boys Mother asked him, and he said "No, I don't want to be seen, and I don't do autographs."


Point is, is that he is fake as hell, and this youth charity he takes on is probably because of his guilt for so many times he did shit like that. I promise this story is true, and will swear on the bible. Not many people know him like that, so I just thought I'd like to say that because I'm just really tired of people being on his nuts.


Now, my favorite Redskin? I've been watching since 91, and I'd have to say Kurt Gouveia. He was a nasty linebacker. Reminded me of the old Steeler D. Close second would be Dex. Dex has more emotion than I think any of the old Redskins had, with exception to Donnie Warren. I also met him at a car show oddly enough. It was at the MCI center if I'm not mistaken. After a brief convo with Warren, he looks like he hates life for not playing for Gibbs anymore. I like those guys.

mine is cris samuels
too bad seattle wont have any penetrations this afternoon

For me it's Art Monk, hands down, not even close. Charles Mann is second, and then my third team consists of a bunch of guys: Doug Williams, Darrell Green, Wilber Marshall, Ken Harvey, Monte Coleman and Kurt Gouveia (anyone else remember the announcers always used to say it "Goo-vee-aay"?).

Though I admired Doug so much for that win in Denver, I always really preferred Stan Humphries to Ryp. I really rooted for him in that Super Bowl when he got the chance.

Darrell Green is a punk ass bitch. I love nostalgia, but he doesn't deserve all the praise he gets. Yeah, he's fast, yeah he caught Tony Dorsett, and he was a great football player. I was at a private car show in Manassas and saw him walking around with one of his boys. I walked up to him, and said..."Mr. Green, can you sign my hat?" and he said..."No Son, I don't do autographs." So, I said "ok, thanks anyway." Shook his hand, and started to walk away. Then this mentally and physically challenged boy carted up to him in his motorized wheel chair, and the boys Mother asked him, and he said "No, I don't want to be seen, and I don't do autographs."


Point is, is that he is fake as hell, and this youth charity he takes on is probably because of his guilt for so many times he did shit like that. I promise this story is true, and will swear on the bible. Not many people know him like that, so I just thought I'd like to say that because I'm just really tired of people being on his nuts.


Now, my favorite Redskin? I've been watching since 91, and I'd have to say Kurt Gouveia. He was a nasty linebacker. Reminded me of the old Steeler D. Close second would be Dex. Dex has more emotion than I think any of the old Redskins had, with exception to Donnie Warren. I also met him at a car show oddly enough. It was at the MCI center if I'm not mistaken. After a brief convo with Warren, he looks like he hates life for not playing for Gibbs anymore. I like those guys.

I've made mention several times of my less than stellar encounters with DG off the field, still I can't deny his impact on the field and what he meant to the success of this franchise. You take someone like Dana Stubblefield for example who as a person was always great to me and probably one of my favorite people to deal with, but as a player I can't consider him a favorite because really what did he do for the team on the field?

Joe Gibbs.

Also, to counter the DG story, I will say that I met a lot of current and former guys from the late 80's / mid-90's Redskins at a charity signing event at the Elks Lodge in Frederick MD when I was a teenager. Russ was there, Joe was there, I think Monte Coleman was as well, Tre Johnson and Jumpy Geathers, that whole crew, but none of the "superstar" marquee guys Art, Darrell, etc.

One very vivid memory I have about the event was that they were there to do a charity raffle for a sick child, but they also had agreed to do some autograph signings (for free). At some point, very early in the event, a lot of really snotty kids started sort of ignoring the auction part and started trying to get the players to sign STACKS of papers, cards, etc. It was the first time I realized, "hey, people are trying to take advantage of this, this is kind of fucked up". A lot of the older guys from the Elks lodge who had organized it were kind of stunned as the kids mobbed the players and you could tell they had lost control of the event.

Joe Jacoby stood up and just BOOMED out a loud "HEY!" and everybody in that room just froze. He then very calmly but sternly admonished the kids, reminding them what they were there for, a sick kid who they were trying to raise money for, and told them to sit down and ONLY after that auction would they sign autographs, and they weren't going to be signing stacks of index cards and merchandise, that people had better be considerate of their fellow fans.

The whole event went off without a hitch after that, it was pretty amazing. I think that was probably the time I realized how important "The Hogs" really were, and what kind of leadership qualities all those guys had.