mooby
11-22-2016, 10:07 PM
Here are some quotes to inspire you:
"...So one time in a meeting during Dallas week, all of a sudden we heard a GONG, ... and here came George (Allen), who was wearing his karate garb .... The whole locker room went crazy. We were shouting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE...' It was electric. He talked about Dallas week and how he wanted to fly to Dallas and meet Tom Landry at midfield and fight him, and if he could beat Landry, we would win. ....Now he had these boards with him, and these other guys were holding the boards. He was going to break two boards with his hands, and two others with his feet, and if he could break those boards, we were going to beat Dallas. The place was going nuts, chanting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE!' Now he started to warm up and was making all kinds of noises and taking deep breaths. It was unbelievable. All of a sudden he screamed, came down, and broke the two boards with his hands and the other two with his feet, and the place went nuts! ..."
- Rusty Tillman, from Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins by Thom Loverro
"George Allen never used to say 'the Dallas Cowboys', it was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' It's the Cowboys' uniform. It strikes hate and loathing in my mind, almost in a Pavlovian sense."
-John Wilbur
"When you sign with Washington, you sign a contract to hate the Cowboys."
-Charles Mann
"If you grow up in metro Washington, you grow up a diehard Redskins fan. But if you hate your parents, you grow up a Cowboys fan."
-Jim Lachey
"We loved to play them. It was always the perfect setting - Monday Night, Thanksgiving Day, a 4 o'clock start, RFK. Those kinds of games still give me goose bumps."
- Ken Houston
"I wanted to just... put his lights out ....because, you know, ...Dallas sucks..."
- Dexter Manley, referring to Danny White whom he knocked out of the first half of the 1982 NFC Championship game.
"It showed our mindset. We honestly felt like we were going into battle."
-Neal Olkewicz, describing the team wearing battle fatigues and black combat boots as they arrived at Dallas International Airport on Dec 10, 1983, dominating the Dallas television news that night. The previous matchup, Redskins had squandered a 23-3 lead to lose 31-30. Redskins record at Dallas was 1-9 over the past ten years. Both teams were 12-2, and the #1 seed for the playoffs was on the line. The following afternoon, the Redskins dominated the game, winning 31-10.
"You just despised that team. It was genuine... I despise them even more now, because they are so flamboyant."
- Joe Jacoby, 1996
"Because of my position, I'm not supposed to think that way. But in the back of my mind, in my heart, I never want to see them win. It's just inbred in my blood since I was a Redskin. I bleed burgundy and gold. I will always have that in my soul - to hate the silver and blue."
- Mark May, TV network analyst, 1996
"I mean, there wasn't a lot of hope for that one, yet we found out, you know, we found a way to win that game, AGAINST our rival, at their place, on Monday night, and uh, the locker room was just -- it was just unbelievable."
-Mark Brunell, Sept. 2005
"I think I love it so much because they talk so much trash, they think they run us. They think they own us. I'm ready. We take little things like that and it adds to our fire. Our fire will start out small, but by game time, it will be blazing and ready to go."
- Sean Taylor, Dec 17, 2005, discussing the Redskins/Cowboys rivalry the day before the Redskins 35-7 blowout of Dallas.
"**** Dallas"
- Chris Cooley, as autographed on one of his photos on his site
This is that good shit right here. Wish today's players felt the same. As weird as it sounds now, my favorite quote in that list was Neal Olkewicz's about wearing combat fatigues and boots at the airport because it felt like they were going into battle. That's the kind of mentality we need to win this week. But man it would be oh-so-satisfying to take the Cowboys down a peg.
"...So one time in a meeting during Dallas week, all of a sudden we heard a GONG, ... and here came George (Allen), who was wearing his karate garb .... The whole locker room went crazy. We were shouting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE...' It was electric. He talked about Dallas week and how he wanted to fly to Dallas and meet Tom Landry at midfield and fight him, and if he could beat Landry, we would win. ....Now he had these boards with him, and these other guys were holding the boards. He was going to break two boards with his hands, and two others with his feet, and if he could break those boards, we were going to beat Dallas. The place was going nuts, chanting, 'GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE!' Now he started to warm up and was making all kinds of noises and taking deep breaths. It was unbelievable. All of a sudden he screamed, came down, and broke the two boards with his hands and the other two with his feet, and the place went nuts! ..."
- Rusty Tillman, from Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins by Thom Loverro
"George Allen never used to say 'the Dallas Cowboys', it was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' It's the Cowboys' uniform. It strikes hate and loathing in my mind, almost in a Pavlovian sense."
-John Wilbur
"When you sign with Washington, you sign a contract to hate the Cowboys."
-Charles Mann
"If you grow up in metro Washington, you grow up a diehard Redskins fan. But if you hate your parents, you grow up a Cowboys fan."
-Jim Lachey
"We loved to play them. It was always the perfect setting - Monday Night, Thanksgiving Day, a 4 o'clock start, RFK. Those kinds of games still give me goose bumps."
- Ken Houston
"I wanted to just... put his lights out ....because, you know, ...Dallas sucks..."
- Dexter Manley, referring to Danny White whom he knocked out of the first half of the 1982 NFC Championship game.
"It showed our mindset. We honestly felt like we were going into battle."
-Neal Olkewicz, describing the team wearing battle fatigues and black combat boots as they arrived at Dallas International Airport on Dec 10, 1983, dominating the Dallas television news that night. The previous matchup, Redskins had squandered a 23-3 lead to lose 31-30. Redskins record at Dallas was 1-9 over the past ten years. Both teams were 12-2, and the #1 seed for the playoffs was on the line. The following afternoon, the Redskins dominated the game, winning 31-10.
"You just despised that team. It was genuine... I despise them even more now, because they are so flamboyant."
- Joe Jacoby, 1996
"Because of my position, I'm not supposed to think that way. But in the back of my mind, in my heart, I never want to see them win. It's just inbred in my blood since I was a Redskin. I bleed burgundy and gold. I will always have that in my soul - to hate the silver and blue."
- Mark May, TV network analyst, 1996
"I mean, there wasn't a lot of hope for that one, yet we found out, you know, we found a way to win that game, AGAINST our rival, at their place, on Monday night, and uh, the locker room was just -- it was just unbelievable."
-Mark Brunell, Sept. 2005
"I think I love it so much because they talk so much trash, they think they run us. They think they own us. I'm ready. We take little things like that and it adds to our fire. Our fire will start out small, but by game time, it will be blazing and ready to go."
- Sean Taylor, Dec 17, 2005, discussing the Redskins/Cowboys rivalry the day before the Redskins 35-7 blowout of Dallas.
"**** Dallas"
- Chris Cooley, as autographed on one of his photos on his site
This is that good shit right here. Wish today's players felt the same. As weird as it sounds now, my favorite quote in that list was Neal Olkewicz's about wearing combat fatigues and boots at the airport because it felt like they were going into battle. That's the kind of mentality we need to win this week. But man it would be oh-so-satisfying to take the Cowboys down a peg.