Welcome to the Skins Super Bowl Festival.
While the Washington Redskins may be defunct, the champions who played for them are not and never will be.
Super Bowl VII: George Allen was the incarnate god of Enthusiasm leading the Over-the-Hill Gang to the Super Bowl. Sonny Super Bowl.
Super Bowl XVII: Somewhere on Football Mount Olympus, Vince Lombardi must have smiled on John Riggins.
Super Bowl XVIII: Two words: Rocket Screen. Biblically horrifying. A modicum of revenge was retrieved a few years later. That was 1986. The Redskins featured a strong-armed fair-haired Quarterback named Jay Schroeder, the Giant Killer of 1985, and a talented performer with a penchant for challenging Joe Jackson Gibbs' nervous system.
The 1983 Skins were like a machine. It featured the highest scoring offense to date and a loquacious Joe Theismann, the League MVP. The Super Bowl was easily their worst performance of the year.
The best game of the talented 1986 team's year was the defeat of the defending Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears at legendary Soldier Field.
Super Bowl XXII: It was shaping up to be another biblical horror. Elway goes for the bomb at the outset Ricky Nattiel 56 yards touchdown. The first quarter ended with another AFC West team dominating the Redskins, 10-0. Would Washington under Joe Gibbs get pummeled for the second straight time in the Super Bowl? The Football Gods had different plans. Blessed by the Gods was one Doug Williams.
The 1987 Team featured the lightning strike that was Doug Williams and the best coaching job of Joe Gibbs' career.
Super Bowl XXVI: This Redskins Championship Team was as much a force as the 1983 team with the difference being they won the Super Bowl. Some memorable games were the victory over a Jerry Glanville Falcons team that refused to back off the blitz in the which Mark Rypien threw for 442 yards and SIX TOUCHDOWNS, the Dallas game at RFK, and the opening rout of the Lions.
The Defense of 91 gave up over 100 yards rushing only five times the whole year. It was a stellar year for the offensive line. The Hogs burped up a ridiculously small total of 9 sacks all year. Andre Collins had 151 tackles. Martin Mayhew, our Front Office Guy, had 108.
Here are a few favorites from that season: John Brandes, Ravin Caldwell, Kurt Gouveia, Tim Johnson, Eric Williams, Fred Stokes.
The 1991 Redskins were the best team in franchise history.
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