TD Super Bowls: No. 33, 1982 Redskins
Ranking all of the Super Bowl winners, from the legendary to the just-decent.
Ranking all of the Super Bowl winners, from the legendary to the just-decent.
There’s been plenty of ramped-up debate of late about the Washington Redskins’ mascot name, and whether or not it ought to be changed to respect what some deem a racist or derogatory term belonging to an NFL team as a mascot. The latest, per the Washington Post, is a proposal from a D.C. Council member [...]
For the first time in what seems like forever, the Washington Redskins are not The Winners of Free Agency. A major reason for this is that the NFL has imposed a two-year, $36 million cap penalty on the team as a punishment for the way Washington navigated the league’s salary cap during the uncapped 2010 [...]
The Redskins have some cap issues, partly because of $18 million dollars worth of cap penalties remaining from the NFL’s decision to punish Washington for “inappropriate contract structures” during the uncapped 2012 season. As a result, the team has decided to release DeAngelo Hall ($9,5 million in 2013) and Santana Moss (S6.3 million in 2013) to help clear some [...]
The Washington football franchise has come under a lot of scrutiny lately, as the campaign to get the team’s potentially politically offensive mascot name changed to something less prickly. But today, Redskins GM Bruce Allen met with local reporters and said that no consideration has been given to changing the “Redskins” name, and that to [...]
Few sports try to shove patriotism down the throat of America as much as football; the Super Bowl has essentially become a giant advertisement for the U.S. military. But if you’re the kind of person who likes these kind of connections, then here’s another one for you. Esquire Magazine has a long, really good profile (factual errors aside) [...]
Apparently, Manti Te’o wasn’t the only one. Nor will he be the last, unless athletes smarten up about fake online identities. According to a story from NFL.com‘s Jeff Darlington, a handful of Washington Redskins players were duped into communicating with a fake online account, and may have been convinced to do more than talk online [...]
Redskins first-year LB Keenan Robinson was on the short end of the stick for a time-tested sports tradition last night: the team dinner, paid for by the rookie. As live-tweeted and Instagram’d by his fellow linebackers on Monday, Robinson wound up footing a $7,000 bill. The social media evidence, via @KeenanRobinson1 and others: Rookie dinner tonight!! [...]
The Seahawks, and specifically Richard Sherman, are developing an interesting reputation. They’re also a really good and tough team, which sometimes can get confused with cheap shots. Either way, here’s what the Redskins are now saying about Seattle, via USA Today: The chippiness of Sunday’s NFC wild-card game culminated with Washington Redskins left tackle Trent [...]