100 Things Redskins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things Sports Fans Should Know...) - Softcover

Snider, Rick

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ISBN 10: 1600789366 ISBN 13: 9781600789366

Verlag: Triumph Books, 2014

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Most Redskins fans have taken a trip or two to FedEx Field, have seen highlights of a young Art Monk, and know the story of Super Bowl XXVI. But only real fans know their way around the team’s training camp facilities, the words to “Hail to the Redskins,” or in which famous baseball stadium the Redskins played in the team’s early years. 100 Things Redskins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of the Washington Redskins. Whether you’re a die-hard booster from the days of Joe Kuharich or a new supporter of RGIII, these are the 100 things all fans needs to know and do in their lifetime. Author Rick Snider has collected every essential piece of Redskins knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Rick Snider is a sports columnist for the Washington Post Express and DCPressBox.com. He is the author of Hail to RFK! 36 Seasons of Redskins Memories and was named the 2010 co-National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Washington, DC Sportswriter of the Year. Charley Casserly enjoyed a 23-year career with the Washington Redskins that began as an unpaid intern and ended as general manager. From 2000 to 2006, he was the general manager of the Houston Texans, and he currently works for NFL Network

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100 Things Redskins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By Rick Snider

Triumph Books

Copyright © 2014 Rick Snider
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-60078-936-6

Contents

Foreword by Charley Casserly, 
Acknowledgments, 
Introduction, 
1. From Braves to Redskins, 
2. Team's First Black Player, 
3. RFK Over LBJ Stadium — A Political Game, 
4. "I Like Big Hairy Men", 
5. Real Indians Played in 1933, 
6. Gibbs Almost Fired at 0–3, 
7. Tailgate With the Best, 
8. Visit Samu's Museum, 
9. Baugh Almost Chose Baseball, 
10. Visit Cooke's Grave, 
11. How Snyder Owns the Team, 
12. Greatest Single Performance?, 
13. Why Fans Hate the Cowboys, 
14. The Wreath, 
15. The 2:00 a.m. Revolt, 
16. Seat-Cushion Game, 
17. Start Your Own Podcast, 
18. 1937 Debut in Frederick, 
19. The Dallas Redskins?, 
20. Nine Untouchable Numbers, 
21. Sex in Stands, 
22. Rookie Hazing, 
23. Career Ends on a Coin Toss, 
24. "I Like Sonny/Billy" Bumper Stickers, 
25. Heisman Modeled After Redskin, 
26. Attend All 20 Games, 
27. Sam Huff — Tough Guy, 
28. Kick Field Goals With Moseley, 
29. George the Gorgeous, 
30. Thomas Almost Wore No. 33, 
31. RG III — Most Hyped Redskin Ever?, 
32. Second Acts, 
33. Was Dietz Really an American Indian?, 
34. The Intern Who Became a General, 
35. "Hail to the Redskins" Lyrics, 
36. Flaherty Says Anchors Away, 
37. Visit Gibbs Racing Fan Fest, 
38. The Squire, 
39. Visit Canton, 
40. Cover the Team, 
41. The Payback, 
42. The Basketball Team, 
43. Lambeau, as in Lambeau Field, 
44. Unwanted Marshall Memorial, 
45. Redskins Cheerleaders, 
46. The Richard Nixon Play, 
47. Redskins and World War II, 
48. No Return to RFK, 
49. Turk Brothers Were Fun, 
50. George Allen and Jhoon Rhee, 
51. Finding the 1937 Trophy, 
52. Throw a Ball Back, 
53. Duncan's Bar, 
54. Cowboy Chicken Club, 
55. The Greatest Moment?, 
56. Possible Hall of Famers, 
57. Best Trade Ever, 
58. Watch Film With Casserly, 
59. The Road to Raljon, 
60. Learn to Deep Snap, 
61. Strike Team, 
62. Many Faces of Portis, 
63. The Fight, 
64. Milkshakes by Marty, 
65. Visit RFK, 
66. The Art of Gaining Autographs, 
67. Lombardi's Look of a Winner, 
68. Attend Welcome Home Luncheon, 
69. EBW — The Overlooked Boss, 
70. Attend Training Camp, 
71. RFK Fades to Black, 
72. Pearl Harbor Game, 
73. Join Redskins Marching Band, 
74. Win Your Point on Sports Talk, 
75. The Bingo Caller, 
76. Best FedEx Field Seats, 
77. Name Controversy, 
78. Visit Carlisle, 
79. 133 mph to Jail, 
80. Lombardi and McVean, 
81. Two-Time First-Rounder = 0, 
82. Coach Out of His League, 
83. Casserly — Intern to GM, 
84. Buy One Piece of Memorabilia, 
85. Looney — The Name Says It All, 
86. How Zorn Became Coach, 
87. Women On the Road, 
88. Fantasy Ball With Redskins, 
89. See Redskins in the Super Bowl, 
90. Lombardi's 5 O'Clock Club, 
91. Owners Beyond the Grave, 
92. Road Trip to Dallas, 
93. Dudley Scored Nine Ways, 
94. Greatest Nicknames, 
95. Go to Green Bay, 
96. Buy a Jersey, 
97. Biggest Draft Bust, 
98. The 73–0 Loss, 
99. The Future is Now 2.0, 
100. The Last Thing You'll Do, 
Bibliography, 
About the Author, 

CHAPTER 1

From Braves to Redskins

Let's end the myth right away — the Redskins were not named to honor Native American Indians.

The legend has some truths and certain common sense, but a story in the Boston Herald on July 6, 1933, explains the name change from Boston Braves to Boston Redskins before later moving to Washington in 1937.

Under the headline, "Braves Pro Gridmen To Be Called Redskins," the story stated, "Along with the change in coaching, the Boston professional football team has undergone another change, this time in name. Hereafter, the erstwhile Braves of pro football will be known as the Boston Redskins. The explanation is that the change was made to avoid confusion with the Braves baseball team and that the team is to be coached by an Indian, Lone Star Dietz, with several Indian players."

Let's go back over that paragraph one point at a time.

No. 1: Owner George Preston Marshall, who started the team in 1932, changed coaches after one year. The team played one year using the same name as the town's baseball team. Football was the new sport, and many football owners deliberately named their teams after baseball teams to piggyback on the latter's name recognition. Eventually, they changed their team's name when they developed their own following.

Marshall was trying to mesh the new name with two other teams. Using Redskins was a reworking of Braves. But it was also an alliteration of the crosstown Red Sox. Red Skins — Red Sox. Get it?

No. 2: Marshall hired Dietz on March 8, so he was in place when the name was changed. Was Marshall really changing the team name to honor his new coach? It's doubtful. But Marshall was a marketing wizard and knew a good opportunity. In one move, he got away from the Braves name, loosely aligned his team with the Red Sox, and found a new marketing niche with Indians, which in those days was common. Marshall even positioned a cigar-store Indian outside his Washington office in later years.

The Redskins name worked several ways for Marshall, so he went with it. But it wasn't designed to honor Native American Indians, nor was it designed to denigrate them. It was just something that worked well.

Marshall was worried more about the color of money than the color of skin. He was the last NFL owner to sign a black player in 1962, and he did so only after being forced by Congress, which owned the new D.C. Stadium where the Redskins were relocating. But part of the reason behind the delay was that Marshall saw black players as bad for business because the Redskins were the NFL's southernmost team with an extensive radio network throughout the South. Marshall thought he would lose business if he had black players.

But Marshall played Native American Indians in 1933, largely as a carryover from Dietz who came from coaching at the Haskell Institute (now the Haskell Indian Nations University) in Kansas. Dietz brought players he personally knew, which wasn't unusual then. Even now, coaches such as Steve Spurrier signed a few of his former Florida players when he came to Washington in 2002.

Marshall made his Indian players pose in full native garb for photographers before the 1933 home opener against the New York Giants. In later years, there were photos of new players being tossed in the air by teammates while wearing headdresses. The team's cheerleaders were dressed as squaws.

The team's fight song included the following lines:

Braves on the warpath!
Fight for Old D.C.!
Scalp 'em, swamp 'um
We will take 'um big score
Read 'um, Weep 'um, touchdown
We want heap more.

One by one, the team stopped using Indian references until they were left solely with the name, which critics now want changed because they say the name is politically incorrect. Marshall died in 1969, but he surely would have loved the publicity about the name.

Marshall would say he was being a pragmatist. Redskins was a...

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• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1600789366
• ISBN 13: 9781600789366
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