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Robiskie detests 'Skins like any foe

By Harvey Fialkov | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
September 8, 2007

DAVIE - Although Dolphins receivers coach Terry Robiskie received his first opportunity to be an NFL head coach when he led the Washington Redskins, he said there would be no emotional ties when walking onto FedEx Field for Sunday's season opener.

"I'm one of those guys who doesn't have to work somewhere and get fired to hate the other team," said Robiskie, 1-2 as Redskins interim head coach in the final three games of the 2000 season after taking over for a fired Norv Turner.

"When they put the team on our schedule I hate them, even if my cousin worked for them."

Robiskie was nostalgic about venerable RFK Stadium, but not FedEx Field, home of the Redskins since 1997.

"The Redskins lost whatever it was that [coaches] George Allen and Joe Gibbs built in RFK," Robiskie said.

"When you walked down that tunnel, climbed those little stairs into the dugout those ghosts were there, like the Gladiators were going to war, and you knew something special had happened there, and something special was going to happen again."

Robiskie thought he had a chance to get the interim tag removed after beating the Arizona Cardinals and their interim head coach Dave McGinnis in the season finale. However, Redskins owner Dan Snyder told Robiskie he was looking for a big name and wound up hiring Marty Schottenheimer.

"After we beat Arizona 20-3 we got a standing ovation, and I thought I had a shot," Robiskie said.

"The next day Arizona hired McGinnis and in the end, he got Marty and I was out."

Schottenheimer lasted one year in Washington before becoming Cam Cameron's boss in San Diego, and Robiskie headed to Cleveland, where he eventually got another stint as interim head coach, going 1-4 in the final five games of the 2004 season.