Glory days

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

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

Here's your man:

This guy is the next Riggins.

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

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

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.

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

Video could also be called Dexter Destoys Dallas. 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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)Where's Mark Murphy:)