Skins history in Boston & World Series

[freddyg12]

There's only 1 big game for New Englanders tonight - Roanoke.com

This is an article from my local paper about Boston sports & how little tonight's #2 BC v. #8 VT game (go Hokies!) is of interest compared to tonight's world series.

What this guy failed to mention was the Skins v. Pats on sunday & that George P. Marshall moved the Skins from Boston to DC in 1936 after a field hockey game got more press than a Skins win in the playoffs. Boston has only recently become somewhat of a football town due to the pats success.

Unfortunately, sundays game at the Pats is followed by the world series at 8:00 in colorado. thus, not a lot of ticket holders will miss the game as they can see both.

Still, the series might have more of their attention and the energy level may be much lower at Gilette. I do believe that the energy level & expectations of fans has an impact on a game. If the fans in Boston are just watching this game & expecting a win before they go watch the sox, they're in for a surprise!

[SmootSmack]

Why should he even mention the Skins vs. Pats game? It's not on tonight

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Why should he even mention the Skins vs. Pats game? It's not on tonight

It isn't that he needed to mention it, but as a footnote to Boston sports history it certainly is worth mentioning.

Actually Boston College's footballl team this year is almost a dead on parallel to the Skins in Boston between 1932-6. The team was doing well yet nobody in Boston noticed just like BC is now as the writer points out. ESPN also did a story recently where they walked around Boston & asked people about BC; who's the qb, coach? etc.

Most people had no idea they were ranked in the top 10.

[SouperMeister]

Boston has always been, and will always be a baseball town. In the last Patriots Super Bowl vs. Philly, Eagles fans outnumbered Pats fans in Jacksonville by 4 or 5 to one. I just laugh when friends from Boston try to say that theirs is a better pro football town than Washington.

[70Chip]

The problem for Marshall was that Pro Football was generally viewed as a 2nd rate sport all over the country in the 1930s - not just up there. At that time the college game was where it was at.

I think that he would have had similar troubles in Washington were it not for the emergence of Sammy Baugh as the biggest star in the entire NFL. I think it was Baugh that saved the franchise more so than the move to D.C.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

The problem for Marshall was that Pro Football was generally viewed as a 2nd rate sport all over the country in the 1930s - not just up there. At that time the college game was where it was at.

I think that he would have had similar troubles in Washington were it not for the emergence of Sammy Baugh as the biggest star in the entire NFL. I think it was Baugh that saved the franchise more so than the move to D.C.

Baugh did for the early Redskins teams, what Sonny Jurgensen did for later day Redskins - both led exciting passing attacks that made for exciting games, win or lose. I'm hopeful that Jason Campbell will be among the Redskin QB greats someday.