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Darrell Green is still faster than you (and most cornerbacks)
How does Hall of Fame defensive back Darrell Green celebrate his 50th birthday? Easy. By running a 40-yard dash. And what did the Redskins great do? Well, he ran a 4.43. I typed that right and you read it right. Darrell Green. Retired in 2002. Ran a freaking 4.43. That is faster than all 36...
Redskins Free Time: Golf and Camps
OTAs are over and now we enter vacation time. Two things are on the radar. Chris Cooley's football camp for kids in Fairfax, June 13-14, and Bobby Mitchell's Hall of Fame Golf Classic. I'll talk to Sugar because I would like to attend both of these. Bobby's golf tourney has quite the star-studded...
Did The Draft Help The Bears?
I wrote a similar post last season to see if the other NFC North teams really helped themselves in the April draft. I'm starting with the Chicago Bears. Chicago improved from 7-9 in 2007 to 9-7 in 2008 and missed the playoffs in both of them. This isn't the same team that made it to the Super Bowl...
2nd Annual Jason Campbell Golf Classic Announced
Join Jason and his teammates for the 2nd Annual Jason Campbell Classic on April 27, 2009, at the Lowes Island Golf Club in Potomac Falls, VA. Last year, the event raised $150,000 to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkins disease and myeloma,...
Darrell Green is the people's choice, and they're wrong
Via TORB (Gymnast of the Apocalypse!), Darrell Green is the people's choice: The results are in on ESPN SportsNation’s “Franchise Players” poll, which purports to determine the “best of all time for every NFL team.” The winner for the Redskins is Darrell Green,...
Colts/Redskins recap: So Jim Zorn coaches quarterbacks?
Let's get this out of the way: Your Head Coach wins his game-calling debut 30-16 and his quarterbacks play out of their minds, the hyperbole will run wild. So that I don't have to keep reminding reader(s) of the fact below, all my pending effusive phrase should be contextualized by the fact that it...
Preaseason preview: Indy Colts @ Washington Redskins 8:00PM Eastern
Tonight. Football is back. In an attempt to put some much needed structure and regularity to my pregame posts for the coming season, here is me trying on a few typical commentary type sections. These are not set in stone and I encourage reader(s) to tell me what's up or not below. I'm listening....
Jim Zorn, Dr. Darrell Green, and Dexter Manley get to catch up
First, who is this Dr. Darrell Green? Redskins 360: Green was introduced as Dr. Darrell Green. Did No. 28 receive a doctorate in the land of the rising sun? No. Green said he has honorary doctorates from George Washington, Marymount and St. Paul's (Va.). Indeed he does, per Wikipedia which...
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