I love this from Mike Wise article:
washingtonpost.com
"We're getting ready to ice the game," Joe Theismann remembered that day against Dallas at RFK Stadium, Jan. 22, 1983. "We're linin' up. And Russ and Randy White had been at it all day. I mean this is a war. This is a physical, UFC, battle royal.
"So all of a sudden I get in the huddle and I call '60 Outside.' And Russ looks at me and he says, 'No.' "
Which made Theismann do a double-take.
"I said, 'What do you mean no? Joe [Gibbs] wants to run 60 Outside.'
"He says, 'I want to run '50 Gut' right at Randy [White, the Cowboys' Hall of Fame defensive tackle].'
"Well now I gotta make an executive decision, you know, I'm middle management."
They ran the play Grimm, not Gibbs, wanted. White was run over and the Redskins gained four yards. Theismann looked back toward Joe Gibbs, two weeks before he guided the franchise to their first of three Super Bowls. The coach wanted his play run.
"Joe signals in 60 Outside," Theismann said.
"I step in the huddle. I go, 'Spread right, short motion, 60 Outside.'
"Russ goes: 'Didn't you hear me? No!'
"I said, 'Okay, fine.' We run 50 Gut again."
And White goes to the ground again. First down.
"Next play, I don't even look at the sidelines anymore," Theismann said. "We ran like 11 consecutive 50 Guts. It was just Russ Grimm against Randy White and we were going to absolutely pummel him to the ground. When I think of Russ Grimm and all the memories, this was his moment."
"I always felt the huddle wasn't a democracy," Theismann added, "until that particular time."
Former Redskins tackle George Starke reminisced by telephone Thursday night as he was awaited his storm-delayed flight from Washington to Canton. "Nine of those times we ran it right up Randy's [behind]," he said.
Before every play, Starke recalled, ornery center Jeff Bostic looked at White across the line: "He said, 'Randy, you better dig in, we're coming again right at you,' " Starke said of Bostic. "He had a nasty-ass attitude. I loved Jeff.
"Then after every play, Mark May would kick Randy White in the butt because he didn't like him," Starke recalled. "Randy would punch Russ, who would get angry. Then we'd do it all over again."