Glory days
 

Let's face it, it's all we have now. Let's use this thread to reminisce a bit about the glory days, the times where the Skins were a perennial Super Bowl contender and right behind the 49ers as the team of the decade for the 80's.

For those that weren't around during these times all I can say is I'm sorry, you truly have suffered. I honestly feel lucky to have lived through these great times and have these memories to look back on.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUen_vu_x0]YouTube - superbowl XVII Highlights - Redskins vs Dolphins[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3J9StM6Muo]YouTube - superbowl XXII Highlights - Redskins vs Broncos[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKvo9gVQg4]YouTube - superbowl XXVI Highlights - Redskins vs Bills[/ame]

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....I then, truly have suffered, dont remember any of this... my glory years are Gibbs II... at least we were respectable then and had some good memories.

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Definitely pick up the "3 Greatest Games" DVDs of the Redskins three Super Bowl victories. It is definitely something any Redskins fan should own! I've been watching these DVDs quite often lately. Watching these Super Bowls, you can just sense how truly together these teams were. You can definitely get a feel for how truly great the hogs were, Riggins, Theismann, Art Monk, Gary Clark, Ricky Sanders, etc...

It was truly a different franchise back then.

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Where to start? There are so many great memories:[LIST][*]Riggo hitching the team to his wagon with 4 consecutive 100 yard games in the 1982 postseason, culminating with the greatest clutch 4th down run to clinch Super Bowl XVII - the greatest play in Redskins history.[*]The 1982 NFC Championship over the hated Cowboys. The stands literally rocking as fans bounced and chanted "We Want Dallas!!!"[*]The Hogs, our rock, our constant that enabled our QBs the time to go vertical in Gibbs's potent play action attack, while allowing our bruising Running backs to control the ball.[*]Darrell Green catching Tony Dorsett from behind in his first NFL game. For that matter, D. Green catching Eric Dickerson from behind in the 1986 playoffs.[*]Gibbs on his knees, unable to watch the 4th down and goal stop against Minnesota to clinch the 1987 NFC Championship.[*]2nd Quarter of Super Bowl XXII - the most perfect quarter of offensive football in NFL history.[*]1990 wild card victory in Philly - redemption after the "Body Bag Game", leading directly to Buddy Ryan's ouster.[*]11-0 start in 1991. Mark Rypien hitting every long pass imaginable during this incredible run.[*]Jumping to 24-0 lead in Super Bowl XXVI, with Skins faithful singing Hail to the Redskins more boisterously after every score.[*]RFK. It may have been a dump, but it was our dump, and there wasn't a louder stadium in the NFL. I've attended huge games at both (most recently the 2005 win over the Giants) and FedEx doesn't even come close in terms of ear splitting volume. I hope that acoustics are taken into consideration for the next stadium, because we've lost much of our home field advantage since moving.[/LIST]

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Speaking of the glory days, what happened to our home white socks? I might be the only one alive who gives a damn, but our home uniforms just looked better with the white socks and not those solid burgundy ones. Sorry. And I had no idea where to put this... it had just been irking me lol

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I will never forget that Dolphins game in particular. We had not yet won a Super Bowl and were not yet the Gibbs 1.0 Skins in terms of reputation. It was a reasonably close game, too, which did not always happen in those days. That might be my favorite Redskins team. They were fired up and well-coached.

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I always liked the no namers that always played so hard!!!!
Mel Kaufman
Neil Olkeiwitz
Martin Mayhew
Curtis Jordan
Kurt Gouvea
Don Warren
Clint Didier
Barry Wilburn
Alvin Walton (my fav)

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Is it that bad that we have to reminisce? I guess so. I'm looking forwards to the development of our young guys on the roster and to next year when we have a new GM and coach.

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[quote=Mattyk72;617429]Let's face it, it's all we have now. Let's use this thread to reminisce a bit about the glory days, the times where the Skins were a perennial Super Bowl contender and right behind the 49ers as the team of the decade for the 80's.

For those that weren't around during these times all I can say is I'm sorry, you truly have suffered. I honestly feel lucky to have lived through these great times and have these memories to look back on.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUen_vu_x0"]YouTube - superbowl XVII Highlights - Redskins vs Dolphins[/URL]

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3J9StM6Muo"]YouTube - superbowl XXII Highlights - Redskins vs Broncos[/URL]

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKvo9gVQg4"]YouTube - superbowl XXVI Highlights - Redskins vs Bills[/URL][/quote]

As much as I love watching the glory days it's painful to watch knowing the odds are against me experiencing anything like that as long as the current structure is in place.

The highlights of me being a fan for the last ten years was winning 5 in a row to make the playoffs back in '05, and winning 4 in a row to make the playoffs back in '07. Other than that and a few games interspered (14-13, 35-7 - aka the last time I think we had a game well in hand before the 4th q even started) the pickins' are slim.

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My favorite Redskins moment. Our NFC Championship game against Dallas. THis was the game that told the nation the Redskins have arrived! We beat to a pulp the famed doomsday defense.
This was the famous game Grimm changed Gibbs playcalls in the huddle near the end of the game to run right at HOF'er Randy White and run out the clock.
We do not have that physical play anymore.
Notice in the background the home made banners and painted bed sheets that Jack Kent Cooke allowed fans to bring to the games back them.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUtfX2IMetY]YouTube - Washington Redskins-Diesel destroys Dallas![/ame]

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God we need a RB like Riggins, he was an even better Marion Barber!!

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[quote=skinsfaninok;617465]God we need a RB like Riggins, he was an even better Marion Barber!![/quote]

Here's your man:

This guy is the next Riggins.

[B] * Toby Gerhart[/B]
* #7
* Running back
* Stanford Cardinal
* Class: Senior 3V
* Height: 6-1
* Weight: 237

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im 31 yrs old which means i was about 4th grade to 8th grade during our true SB glory days. i do remember, before i even knew what football really was, sitting around the house at a very young age, bored on a sunday and i decided to really give footballa chance. i remember watching the likes of the running back for the giant morris called mighty mouse, seeing him do what he did at such a small size was amazing to me a very young boy. phil simms bravado parcells were names i learned as i followed mighty mouse. a year later i learned of the skins and darrel green. so many people spoke so highly of darrell green. i was at a pizza party and saw him intercept and return a ball for a td. the pizza party lil kid thing i went to every adult wnet nuts. i became a d green fan. soon enough the skins were apparently in the super bowl. still at a very young age, i watched as the skins put up the greastest quater in sb history as doug williams ricky sanders art monk and that other guy (im been drinkin) put up spectacular play after play. right then and there i understood football, i understood home town pride, i understood ....lady feell on flor

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My parents wouldn't let me watch SuperBowl XXII despite sitting through whole games that year at the ripe young age of 4. They went to a party which I assume was filled with drinking and debauchery and I was stuck in the rec room beside the big room in the basement, they wouldn't even turn on a TV upstairs because I'd be "too far" from them :( I still hate them for that.

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[quote=Defensewins;617463]My favorite Redskins moment. Our NFC Championship game against Dallas. THis was the game that told the nation the Redskins have arrived! We beat to a pulp the famed doomsday defense.
This was the famous game Grimm changed Gibbs playcalls in the huddle near the end of the game to run right at HOF'er Randy White and run out the clock.
We do not have that physical play anymore.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUtfX2IMetY]YouTube - Washington Redskins-Diesel destroys Dallas![/url][/quote]

Video could also be called [I][B]Dexter Destoys Dallas[/B][/I]. Check out 1:01 and 1:50 when he bats the ball.

I also feel lucky to have experienced this, and can get a little choked up about it sometimes. Four Super Bowls in 10 years racks up a lot of lifelong memories with family, friends, and yes bartenders, and complete strangers. I've hugged the young and old, rich and poor, a lot of drunks and a couple dudes in wheel chairs during a championship game. It's what Redskin fans did, especially when RFK roared (and when beer man came around).



Here's my video contribution outside of the Super Bowls. This one's only a few seconds, but says it all. Who we were, and will be again someday.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spIuA1GgfDE[/ame]

Get to 4:00 on this one (playoffs v. Atlanta...it was about effing cold and rained the entire time, one of favorite RFK memories). Anyway, I was in my early 20s during the glory years, and hope those of you of the same age today get a taste of this. You so deserve it.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIq35a2AVA&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

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[quote=Defensewins;617463]My favorite Redskins moment. Our NFC Championship game against Dallas. THis was the game that told the nation the Redskins have arrived! We beat to a pulp the famed doomsday defense.
This was the famous game Grimm changed Gibbs playcalls in the huddle near the end of the game to run right at HOF'er Randy White and run out the clock.
We do not have that physical play anymore.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUtfX2IMetY"]YouTube - Washington Redskins-Diesel destroys Dallas![/URL][/quote]Thanks for the YouTube memory! What a glorious time that was to be a Redskins fan. Our young O-line really jelled into a dominant unit that post-season. I still say that we could have had the 2nd coming of the Hogs had Marty drafted Steve Hutchinson over Rod Gardner. A young Hutch, lined up next to Samuels would have been completely sick.

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Great memories guys! You remember the punter we had in the early 80's? Haynes? The dude was a threat to fake the punt and take off running. One of the few punters other teams feared.

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These are some of the moments that make what we're witnessing now so challenging. Hopefully, in my lifetime there will come a time when we will return to some semblence of then.

Good work Matty.

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[quote=skinsfaninok;617465]God we need a RB like Riggins, he was an even better Marion Barber!![/quote]

Marion Barber?? He couldn't hold Riggins' jock.

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[quote=CrustyRedskin;617458]I always liked the no namers that always played so hard!!!!
Mel Kaufman
Neil Olkeiwitz
Martin Mayhew
Curtis Jordan
Kurt Gouvea
Don Warren
Clint Didier
Barry Wilburn
Alvin Walton (my fav)[/quote]Where's Mark Murphy:)

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[quote=SouperMeister;617454]RFK. It may have been a dump, but it was our dump, and there wasn't a louder stadium in the NFL. I've attended huge games at both (most recently the 2005 win over the Giants) and FedEx doesn't even come close in terms of ear splitting volume. I hope that acoustics are taken into consideration for the next stadium, because we've lost much of our home field advantage since moving.[/quote]
I went to several games at RFK, and have been to several more at FedEx, and it's not even close. RFK was certainly was an old dump, but it was a magical place.

My first game was in 1987 when the Skins played the Lions. Up 20-13 going into the 4th quarter, there wasn't a fan sitting and the stadium rocked for the entire quarter. I remember the noise of the platforms leading from the concourse to the seats sounds like thunder. Chuck Long was the Lions QB, and I think he threw 1 or 2 picks (of 4) in the 4th quarter. I just remember how awesome it was, and how awesome it was each time I went thereafter. You just don't get that feeling, that aweness at FedEx.

So many fond memories of this team...

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[quote=SkinDogg;617476]Get to 4:00 on this one (playoffs v. Atlanta...it was about effing cold and rained the entire time, one of favorite RFK memories). Anyway, I was in my early 20s during the glory years, and hope those of you of the same age today get a taste of this. You so deserve it. [/quote]If I remember correctly it was this game that Rypien threw a late INT (game was already out of reach) to Deion. On the INT return, Rypien ROCKED Deion. That was one I'll never forget, great hit by Rypien and I couldn't stand Deion even back then. Couldn't find the clip on YouTube.

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[quote=Slingin Sammy 33;617612]If I remember correctly it was this game that Rypien threw a late INT (game was already out of reach) to Deion. On the INT return, Rypien ROCKED Deion. That was one I'll never forget, great hit by Rypien and I couldn't stand Deion even back then. Couldn't find the clip on YouTube.[/quote]

Yeah I remember that play well too. Rypien stuck him good and make a textbook tackle.

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[quote=Longtimefan;617598]These are some of the moments that make what we're witnessing now so challenging. Hopefully, in my lifetime there will come a time when we will return to some semblence of then.

Good work Matty.[/quote]

Longtime, do you remember these?

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[quote=Slingin Sammy 33;617612]If I remember correctly it was this game that Rypien threw a late INT (game was already out of reach) to Deion. On the INT return, Rypien ROCKED Deion. That was one I'll never forget, great hit by Rypien and I couldn't stand Deion even back then. Couldn't find the clip on YouTube.[/quote]

Yeah I remember they started celebrating, typical Deion and his low rent teammates, they were celebrating like the play won them the game. Safety's Danny Copeland and Brad Edwards interrupted their celebrations rather physically, grabbed them and pointed to the scoreboard. Reminded them they were losing something like 24-7. It shut them up qucily, funniest moment of the game.
I remember there were numerous Atlanta area stars (musicians,boxer, etc) on the sidelines line at RFK. SoOme of the Redskins later said they took offense to that.
Man how times have changed. The Joe Gibbs Redskins teams were classy.

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[quote=SmootSmack;617647]Longtime, do you remember these?

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Smack, you have me summoning the depths of my memory. Much of the early and mid 40's I always relied on my Father, and my Uncle to tell me about because I didn't go to my first Redskin game until the 49-50 season. When we played that championship game against the Bears I was only four yrs. old.

My Father would always tell me about Ray Flaherty, and how great the Redskins were in the years immediately following the start of the war. Ray Flaherty then, was our Joe Gibbs now.

That's really good stuff though,and makes me think a long way back.

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Some of you are simply pissed cause you never had this and have no idea what it feels like. The rest of us are pissed cause we know what it feels like and wonder "what the hell happened?" Usually teams have a small dry spell till they pick up players in needed positions but we have been on a drought.

I can remember every one of the SB's in the 80's. I can remember being in high school and our marching band was invited to play in the Parade. Oh, I'm sorry guys some of you might not know what a SB parade is. LOL. I try not to think about what has happened to the team too much cause I sit back and get pissed looking at the product we have now and comparing it to what we had then.

You youngins don't know what you are missing. They only thing the rest of us can share is ....it's like the best day you have ever had at work after a Skins major victory X 100.

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[quote=InsanePianist;617455]Speaking of the glory days, what happened to our home white socks? I might be the only one alive who gives a damn, but our home uniforms just looked better with the white socks and not those solid burgundy ones. Sorry. And I had no idea where to put this... it had just been irking me lol[/quote]

Ha...I actually share this pet peeve. We need the striped socks back.


Thankfully I remember watching SB XXII and XXVI.

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I was born in '89 so unfortunately I have no clue what you old guys are talking about... it is sad though.

I've watched all three super bowls over and over and over again. My whole life I've been watching highlights of those super bowls. It's the only thing I've got to hang on to lol

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They've worn the striped socks this year

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yeah you're right. Giants and Rams

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[quote=SBXVII;617679]Some of you are simply pissed cause you never had this and have no idea what it feels like. The rest of us are pissed cause we know what it feels like and wonder "what the hell happened?" Usually teams have a small dry spell till they pick up players in needed positions but we have been on a drought.

I can remember every one of the SB's in the 80's. I can remember being in high school and our marching band was invited to play in the Parade. Oh, I'm sorry guys some of you might not know what a SB parade is. LOL. I try not to think about what has happened to the team too much cause I sit back and get pissed looking at the product we have now and comparing it to what we had then.

You youngins don't know what you are missing. They only thing the rest of us can share is ....it's like the best day you have ever had at work after a Skins major victory X 100.[/quote]


i'm in the exact same boat here.. looking back, i was blessed growing up with those redskins teams..problem is, i STILL hold the team to those standards and it's frustrating to watch them struggle.

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cant believe how time flies. i remember me and my dad watching the 1972 NFC championship game, when Charlie Taylor burned the rookie Marc Washington,. the skins blew out Dallas 24-3. have the cowboys ever beaten the skins in the playoffs? was there ever a better motivator/ coach then George Allen?

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[quote=dmek25;617796]cant believe how time flies. i remember me and my dad watching the 1972 NFC championship game, when Charlie Taylor burned the rookie Marc Washington,. the skins blew out Dallas 24-3. have the cowboys ever beaten the skins in the playoffs? was there ever a better motivator/ coach then George Allen?[/quote]

I remember that game well also because it had been a long time since we had been actually playing for something. The stands in RFK were rocking that day, and for the George Allen era, that day the Redskins had arived.

The only other time we played the Cowboys post-season was for the 1982 Championship which we won 31-17 and propelled us to the SB.

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[quote=dmek25;617796]cant believe how time flies.[B] i remember me and my dad watching the 1972 NFC championship game, when Charlie Taylor burned the rookie Marc Washington,.[/B] the skins blew out Dallas 24-3. have the cowboys ever beaten the skins in the playoffs? was there ever a better motivator/ coach then George Allen?[/quote]

32 years later he would change his name to Marcus and sign with the Redskins...I'm telling you all we do is sign overpriced bums

How about our replacement players back in '87. That was a great 3 game stretch led by strong coaching and a unified locker room

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[quote=SmootSmack;617816]32 years later he would change his name to Marcus and sign with the Redskins...I'm telling you all we do is sign overpriced bums

How about our replacement players back in '87. That was a great 3 game stretch led by strong coaching and a unified locker room[/quote]

Strong coaching yes, but the regular players ddn't have any love for that group. We were fortunate that year in that the Giants were the team to beat, and they lost all their scabb games. Parcells didn't have much success with his replacement players, Joe Gibbs got a QB form a half-way house in Va. and for a few games made him look better than Theismann.

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[quote=SmootSmack;617816]32 years later he would change his name to Marcus and sign with the Redskins...I'm telling you all we do is sign overpriced bums

How about our replacement players back in '87. That was a great 3 game stretch led by strong coaching and a unified locker room[/quote]

That may have been the best coaching that I've ever seen. The Skins scabs even beat Dallas despite the presence of several Cowboys regulars who crossed the picket line. Now that's coaching.

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[quote=Lotus;617844]That may have been the best coaching that I've ever seen. The Skins scabs even beat Dallas despite the presence of several Cowboys regulars who crossed the picket line. Now that's coaching.[/quote]

The best coaching ever was done by Joe Gibbs I (on his last year 1992-3 season) the team had so many injuries all around OL/DL/RB etc. and yet they beat Minnesota as a wildcard team and flew to SF and lost to the 49ers 20-13 after the Mitchell fumble (we almost won that game).

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And who can forget...

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[quote=Defensewins;617463]My favorite Redskins moment. Our NFC Championship game against Dallas. THis was the game that told the nation the Redskins have arrived! We beat to a pulp the famed doomsday defense.
This was the famous game Grimm changed Gibbs playcalls in the huddle near the end of the game to run right at HOF'er Randy White and run out the clock.
We do not have that physical play anymore.
Notice in the background the home made banners and painted bed sheets that Jack Kent Cooke allowed fans to bring to the games back them.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUtfX2IMetY]YouTube - Washington Redskins-Diesel destroys Dallas![/url][/quote]

Yeah, I think this was my favorite game from the entire era. The Super Bowl victories were all fantastic and unforgettable, but this was not only the game that earned us our first SB visit of the Gibbs I era, it also came with a "I can't believe it!" feeling. Entering that season, the Cowboys had won the NFC East the previous six years in a row and had made it to the NFC Championship game the previous two. They were the only team to beat us during the regular season, and it was their fifth consecutive victory over us. As [I]badly[/I] as I wanted the win, I really wasn't expecting it. That made Grant's touchdown quite possibly my favorite moment of all of the years I've rooted for the team.

And how great is it to watch replays featuring the Redskins at RFK with Pat Summerall announcing the game?