Redskins Uniform History

Moore To Consider: Welcome to Moore to consider. This is my second half of a show. just did a show on some of the heat that might be coming to the Washington, Washington commander's franchise for dabbling maybe getting too close to, some of the old imagery from the Washington franchise name. And in large it's the spear. It's a spear. So. I just did a whole show on that. Now I'm going to go into what exactly we're talking about. And I wanted to kind of do this as a history thing, because I've lived a lot of it. And what I've done is I have given this to my producer, Laura, that I do shows with. We're getting ready to do some more movie shows. We're going to do some more. did a show the other day on pretty woman. think we're going to do one on wall street and going to talk more and more about the characters and. We did the show with pretty woman about, man, some of the things that are written about it now, certainly the movie was viewed differently. So anyway, that Laura, that is my producer and close friend and on a lot of these shows, I giving her in sequence the pictures that she's going to place into this. So kind of doing a thing where I'm going through a series of pictures that they're going to be posted as I talk about these. And you're going to see the real history. of the Washington risk and uniform. Um, Fred Gerkel, I think was the pronunciation. Fred Gerkel was, I start with this was, um, a player, I think it was a wide receiver. Let me go with Fred here. Let me just make sure. Cause I looked him up earlier and I want to make sure I'm right. Um, he, if I am correct on this, Was the first person to, yep, there it is. Fred Gerkey. I'm sorry. It's Fred Gerkey. Fred Gerkey. I told myself I was going to get that right. And then I did. And so here's my chance. Born 1918, lived to 2002, was an American football player and executive. Now what he's famous for is in 1948, he took his helmet. I think the story was he took his helmet home. played for the Los Angeles Rams. Thought Rams have horns. Why don't I just paint some horns on the helmet? And he did. And I think he came back with this sort of blue helmet with the gold horn, which became, you know, the LA Rams helmet of the future. Now these are leather helmets at the time. They're kind of transitioning from the leather into molded John Riddell was I think it was called. The M1917 helmet was the World War I helmet for United States Armed Forces for troops, the army in fighting the World War I. And I think Patton saw where John Riddell was dabbling in this. is a Riddell. This is a, now again, these are, ⁓ say they're replica helmets, they're helmets. They're the real thing. This is a real helmet. Here's another. So Riddell came up with the point of suspension. You know, there's, it's a six point helmet here, here, there's six times around. And these are rivets ⁓ pull these cotton straps tightly. when you put your helmet, your head in, you've got a, you've got rubber cap at the very top and you have. Like these elastic bands that basically hold the crown of your head in. Anyway, that becomes a thing. becomes the helmet. Again, Riddell was doing the suspension helmet, led to, I believe it was Patton went to him and they changed the World War II helmet to the Riddell. When they went, when the went to the helmet, when they went to the combat helmet, it was a suspension helmet. In large part, I think it was Riddell's design. So he's making football helmets. And at one time it was kind of, I think like molded leather shaped over. a sort of suspension system. And then eventually it became suspension as you, just showed you inside of a plastic shell. And then that type of shell became more and more like difficult to break, crack, didn't crack in cold weather. that can get her to do a whole show about the changes in the, in the pro football helmet. But the bottom line is this guy, Gerkey painted the Uh, horn, the golden horn on this blue helmet. I, when I first heard the story, it's like, he comes back, uh, to practice with the helmets. Like, Hey guys, look what I did. And that the, story was like the owner of the head coach. I tell you what, we'll give you a dollar, a dollar for every helmet you do. And back then the roster was probably 32 guys, 33, I think was 33 guys. So he probably made like 30 bucks, know, 33. He's out to paint probably. He had a paint brush and paint, but he paints it. And that becomes like, oh my, you know, the league was kind of like, oh, how about that? So I say all that to say this. I don't think a team in NFL history had more helmet designs or redesigns than the Washington Redskins. I mean, you think about some teams, you know, the Colts at one time had the horseshoes in the back. They had a blue helmet with white horseshoes. had a white with blue. They changed the movement. The Cowboys used to have a white helmet with the Navy star. Eventually it went to the silver helmet and they'll do the throwback with the white. But what you got? mean, you Green Bay, Green Bay is not changing anything. They had a gold helmet. Then they eventually put the green and white stripes over the center. And it was in the 60 season. They had a blank helmet when they lost to the Eagles in 61, they came out with the G, the Green Bay G that was Vince Lombardi's thing. They came out with that in 61. What are they wearing now? They're wearing the same thing. The Raiders have originally had all different team colors and then they eventually went to the Raider with the eye patch and all of that. The swat, you know, the, like the buccaneer on the side, helmet. Um, and the Bucks are another one. You know, they came out with the cream sickle uniforms originally. They've gone to the pewter and they'll do the throwback. But what I'm saying is when you stop and think about helmet designs. A lot of teams have got two or three in their history. The Washington Redskins have a ton. They've changed up the helmet a lot. They've changed some colors a little bit, but they've changed up the design quite a bit two guns, white calf, which became the standard with the, with the silhouette, for the profile shot of John two guns, white calf. Again, my favorite, my favorite logo. That's John Two Guns White Calf, Blackfeet Indian. a gift from nation ⁓ to Redskins Blackie Wetzel, Walter Blackie Wetzel. All right. So the first picture I'm going to show, the new helmets. And as they knew, changed the burgundy They got from matte back into the kind of glossy look. And then the alternative helmet, they're calling it black. To me, it almost looks like a charcoal gray, but they have a and inside, this is what's caused all the controversy inside of the W. They have a spear in her like interlaced with the W. The spear does not have a feather. And apparently that is at some saving grace for it because if it a feather, I think it would bring up another whole issue. But there you go. as far as, and the big key thing with the Burgundy helmet and with both helmets, but with the Burgundy helmet after last when they did the three games where as Rick Dock Walker, as I mentioned in the last show called it the championship uniform, the old white Jersey with the opposite of Jersey. This is the Jersey in the Burgundy. So the white had. the burgundy and gold on the sleeve trim. That was the championship uniform. It's the one that won super bowls in. So lot of history there. So as, as Doc Walker talked about it, they wore it three times last year and they back to putting the white as I also showed in the last show. The white surrounding the goal center with the two lanes of burgundy left, the helmet color. So you just take white tape, go about the same width of the tape outside and you got goal running the center. So that's been on the helmet since 1972 in ⁓ design. When the Washington commanders first went to the new helmets, they just put a W on the side with a single stripe and it was in that matte finish. So they're making the helmet look as much like a Washington Redskin at the end helmet as you can make without putting John Two Guns white calf on the side. So, and this is what I just did a whole show on was this whole question. I'm going history here, but on this history, where this controversy is coming up is people feel like they're trying to get the nose under the tin again. They're like, okay, we're going to, we're going to go back to the old look uniform. And that's what it is. The burgundy over white and the white over burgundy is the uniform. The only difference is the redskins is off the front. And this was a Reebok jersey, the 75th anniversary. So outside of that, it's the same uniform. All right. So now what I have to show you people the and what going to look like. They're Nike made. So it's got the golden white sleeve stripes, the gold face mask. The gold faced mask was also big because originally when they came out with these burgundy helmets or call it burgundy, they were wearing burgundy mask and they were wearing black helmets with a black mask and had the little W in the front. Everybody hated it. So they've, they've canned all that. Um, going to the gold mask is old school eighties. Well, it started in 78, 1978 was the first year they wore gold mask and replaced the old gray. again, when I'm showing you a helmet like this. was pre 1978. Um, all these helmets I have behind me, they're all covered with footballs now, but I got a bunch of them back there with the gold mask. Uh, I've got gold mask helmets everywhere. Um, they've gone to solid block numbers. Now I wish they go back to the days, like in the sixties, well, even in the seventies under the original Lombardi jerseys, that was the green Bay trim. There was a white It was white numbers on directly onto the color. And then had the burgundy on the white. I never liked the cover. I never liked the, like the drop. It's not a drop shadow. It's a trim, the trim the other color like this. This is gold over the white number. And I'm not a fan. I never was fan of that as much, but what you're seeing, I'm and this is what you'll be seeing in this picture. Number two is Jayden Daniels in the uniform. And then you see some alternatives and one of the alternative pants they have, they've gone to a gold pants it kind of brings up an issue too, that I had with Bruce Allen when he went to the gold pants, when he returned as the general manager, those pants were the Lombardi green Bay style pants. They were not the going forward. Joe Gibbs pants. Joe Gibbs wasn't there in 79, I'm still Jack Pardee, but, But what we associate with victory with Gibbs was white pants with the burgundy and gold stripe. What were worn the Allen years off of Lombardi was gold pants with the burgundy white burgundy stripe, burgundy white burgundy, the same as the Packers. So when they did that thing ⁓ the 2010s, And they brought back the gold pants. loved it because I loved the gold pants, the gold pants, they kind of darkened the helmets and they had the helmets looking really strong. The jerseys were okay, but it was this Jersey. This Jersey trim does not match those pants. And that kind of bothered me. So what I see what they've done now with the gold pants is they've done a burgundy or almost looks dark maroon and white stripe. So they're matching up with what was done. with the 79 uniform going forward. It's team color pants and it's two stripes of the other two colors. So the burgundy pants have a golden white stripe. The white pants have a burgundy and gold stripe. And now what they've done with the gold, instead of having the white running in between the burgundy, they're doing a burgundy and white stripe. I think that's kind of a good move because it's a gold pant. It's gold again, which I like. but it more matches this trim. If they're not gonna do the trim like they did on the old school ones like the Packers, then don't do it. So now you have primary white. It's the same thing in reverse. So they have a picture of Terry McLaurin here And there's a picture there that I want you to kind of take a look at because I think it's pretty cool. It's gonna be worn with the ⁓ W helmet. It'll with the gold mask and you can wear the burgundy pants. You can wear the white pants. You can wear the gold pants. I like that. like all of this. I really do. think, I think they're, I think they're doing a good thing. Now here comes the controversy. So here is the picture of the hail ⁓ razor alternative. And again, the big thing is it's got a spear on it, but what they've done is they have a black Jersey with numbers. With gold trim. It's kind of sexy. don't have a problem with it. And they're showing all here. They're showing black pants with these golden burgundy stripes. I heard something said about they could wear it over the gold pants. I don't know. I don't know that's ever going to be a thing or wearing it over the white pants. I doubt it. these pants are black with the stripes, gold and burgundy. So far as that goes, I kind of like it. So now, in the big scheme of things, the next picture you're going to see is helmet from about 15 years ago probably because it's like one of those VSR4s that I have many of that I have behind me. It was kind of that standard pretty round helmet that Brady liked so much that all these guys started being told because of the concussion changes or the changes in design they couldn't wear them anymore. but it was the helmet for display and it was the best looking shape and everything like that. That was the helmet. I just want to show it to show what the logo last looked like. And it's gone through some changes. As a matter of fact, I'll show you this too. This is more of the 72 logo and the shade of face, skin tone is different. Originally, the skin tone was like this. was much more of a reddish color. And over time it became darker and I've seen it different shades. So skin tone of John Two Guns White Calf has changed over And this right here is fairly dark that you see in the picture here. But this is the standard issue Washington Redskin helmet. Pretty much going up to the last time they wore it in 2019. Now in 2019, they were starting to go to a lot different designs. The helmets now are much more difficult. And I've watched like it Rydell the decal and it's tougher because they got so many more vents on them. got them so they're just not the same design. And I will say this too. And it probably makes sense. talked to a guy years ago that does helmet restoration and he said of all the helmets to ever do the two most difficult teams to get it right. And I've done decal placement. It's tough, but the two most difficult teams were the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins. And think of why. He goes to the Cowboys. If you got the five points of the star going the right direction, Green Bay, the G kind of followed the curvature of the helmet. San Francisco was the same. You can think of a lot of the Chicago Bears, a lot of them are pretty simple. But Washington had the circle and the feather and Miami had the big dolphins, got the tail coming down at the bottom. He's got his head up there inside of a circle. So there's a lot of pitfalls and to get that round part of that decal on there and still line up the tail, the end of it, the feather end of it. It's not easy. was me? I know it sounds like I'm really making a big deal about that, but it is one of the more difficult. It was one of the more difficult decals to get on the helmet. And with the helmets now, like I said, the designs now, it's really difficult to do decal placement. can tell because there's so many more places that the decal can run into a crack or crevice and things like that. So it's different. So now we're going to get into the history of the uniform. So This is Sammy Ball in black and white. You could find some color pictures. I didn't, I just went ahead and went with this one. Cause what I want you to know is in the next frame, the next picture you're going to see, you're going to see the gold of the pants. You're going to see the burgundy of the Jersey and you're going to realize at that time, the helmet was pretty much brown. It was just a brown leather helmet. Ball played from 37 to 52, played 16 years. By the time he finished the game, he was in a plastic helmet. And I want to say he, they had a gold helmet. with the burgundy over the top, a stripe, and then had a little bit of a burgundy with the gold the top stripe, center stripe, and they eventually went to... Sometime in 1958 they went to this. So this is again the replica helmet. This is what I'm showing you now on camera here. This is a replica of the feather over the top. Which I'm going to get into some pictures of that too. But I wanted you to see that the ball picture, that's what they were wearing when they won the championship in 37. So next picture is Eddie LeBaron. This gives you the color scheme. And this is a long time of this. I've watched some film on YouTube of games in the forties with ball playing. This is what they're wearing top and bottom helmets are kind of just brown pieces of leather. The other thing you noticed at that time in the NFL, if you watch old films of the forties, I think it's up through the fifties, probably into the fifties, they didn't wear home and away jerseys. So I've seen film of the Redskins playing the Lions and the Lions are in the Honolulu blue and the Redskins are in burgundy. So everybody's wearing the dark Jersey because that's it. They're wearing one, one style of Jersey. That's a good, that's one of those trivia things that you probably look up is when did they go to, I know the Redskins were wearing a white Jersey in 60. I know that. Um, but in the fifties, it had to have happened in the fifties. Some point during the fifties, they would have gone to, well, you know, though, I can remember seeing film with Steve Van Buren that 48 game, the 48 championship game with the Eagles the Blizzard. And I'm pretty sure they're in the white uniform then too. So I need to look into that, but at some point there became a, an idea that you would wear a dark Jersey and you would wear a white Jersey. The white Jersey was road Jersey and the dark Jersey, whatever your color, your team color Jersey was, was the home Jersey. This is a variation. I've seen it said 1956. I've seen it say 1960. I this is a 1960 card. This is a card for Dick James and he was a pretty famous running back for the Redskins during that kind of bleak periods leading into the sixties. But what you see on that is the same gold pants, the same, again, I think it almost looks like kind of a mustard colored pants. It is a white number on the burgundy jerseys and these jerseys are pretty dark. I mean, when you saw the LeBaron one slide before, LeBaron, you know, it's, it's, ⁓ it's bordering on plum. It's, it's some color burgundy ish. So it's the same thing here, but you've got these shoulder stripes that they didn't have for very long. They, did it off and on. So now you're going to see one of those surviving helmets of the, the feather over the top. And when I say surviving, I mentioned it in the last show, there's only like three in existence, which when the guy explained to me why I said, duh, you know, I guess that guy kind of looks stupid on that. was like, you mean there's only three left? And he goes, well, think about what happened to them. They're in this helmet and they changed to the spear. They just stripped off all the decals. They were property of the Washington Redskins. So they stripped off the decals and threw spears on the side and became the new helmet. I was like, I never thought about that. So the three or so guys. There were like three guys that retired that didn't go to play for another team or something that took their helmets with them with the feather over the top. That's why there's only like three in existence. There may be other helmets from the era that were on the field that would have had the feather over the top, but they got switched out for the spear. So you'll never know which ones they were. Now in this picture, I've gone. Just to show you the 64th season, six and eight, Jurgensen's first year. It's also Sam Huff's first season. That's the standard issue uniform. Now what's weird, cause I've seen a lot of the highlight films from that year. say weird. They were wearing white at home that year, which meant they, it's hard to find a picture of them in the plum or burgundy Jersey because generally wearing white on the road and they wore white at home, which is the thing with Gibbs. When Gibbs came in in 81, I don't know what brought that about, but he started that white over burgundy pants, I remember was seem weird to me because the Cowboys did that. The Cowboys were white over silver or gray, whatever the hell you call that color. That's a Cowboy thing. It wasn't the Redskins thing. And when the Redskins started doing, started forcing the Cowboys to wear the blue jerseys when they came to RFK, which I think is kind of the story. It was a let's force the Cowboys to have to wear the blue because Historically, they don't play as well in the blue. Remember the Eagles did that one time in the playoffs. Yeah, they went to the Super Bowl, Super Bowl 15. forced the Cowboys to wear blue when the Eagles were at home. And the Eagles back down was a good look. When they had that white uniform, different shade of green, wore the Kelly green and the gray pants. That was strong. I don't like the darker one. I like when they do the throwback, what they do in the throwback. The Reggie white ears, what Reggie wore. That was a great look. I'm not a green fan, but I love the Eagles uniform from the eighties when they, you know, when, when those guys were playing, you know, Randall Cunningham and, and, and, and, like I said, Reggie White and guys like that, it was, that was a good look. Seth Joyner. was, that was a good look. All right. this is Sonny Jurgensen. I put, I pulled a lot of Sonny pictures. This is Sonny Jurgensen. In the helmet, and this is the thing about photography, the helmet I showed you looks plum. It looks dark. It is what it is. It's a dark helmet. And there are so many pictures I've seen where pre the 69 screw up on the team color where they kind of went more Cardinal. There's pictures where the helmets look Cardinal and there's pictures when they look dark. So this is Sonny Juergensen and this is Lynn Haas. So I mentioned this in the show after Sonny Jurgensen's death. I got to be friends with a guy that was a helmet guy and you know, he put out on the website, you know, who were the only two players to ever wear of the Redskins decals, the feather over the top, the spear, the R then eventually made it to John Two Guns white calf. As it was three and you know. I said, the two obvious ones are Jurgensen and Charlie Taylor. And he goes, well, I'm not aware of the third. I go, yeah, it was Len Haas. So Len Haas is in this picture. So that Len Haas is literally in this picture wearing it. That's him number 56. He's a rookie from Georgia. was a big fan of Len Haas. So Len Haas, I think started week six and that's him snapping the ball to Sonny. Now his helmet looks in this picture. Sort of dark and sunny's I think it's a reflection of the, of the sunlight pretty red, red ish. So, but anyway, that, that is in fact, the picture of plum helmet. And this is the white, it's kind of the, the mustard colored pants. It's the white Jersey with the shoulder stripes. That's what they wore. So same uniform, different time. Juergensen only wore the helmet over the spear over the top or feather over the top in 64. You can see in the background on one knee, Norm Snead in the picture. I don't know whether he's in the play and he was knocked down and he's come to one knee or whether he's on the bench on the side. And Bobby Mitchell could very well be returning a kick, but that's Bobby Mitchell in that picture. The helmet looks pretty dark. Same thing though. Gold pants, of the mustard colored pants. This was the look. Has to be 62 or 63. Those are the years that those two would have been together. In 64, not only is Norm Snead not going to be in the picture with the Redskins, he just went to the Eagles because he was traded straight up for Sonny Juergensen. Well, there was others involved, but Juergensen and Snead were traded for each other. we're going to have here, same thing, but Charlie Taylor. Charlie Taylor, rookie year, 64. He's rookie of the year. And that's kind of. The Eagles green I'm talking about, but that's a sixties picture. That's 1964. here I got to show you. This is really, it's very hard, like I said, to find too many pictures of the deep plum jersey with the mustard colored pants and the plum socks and all with that jersey. I was getting a lot of white pictures. The picture of the white Jersey, but this is the dark Jersey. It's a good look. It's a good look, but it's the feather over the top. I'm not opposed to the feather over the top. I don't hate it, but, I love the spear a lot more. That's what I grew up with. this is as good as it gets on a picture of Sonny and what he was wearing. And I would swear on this. I'm pretty sure because I've watched a ton of game film. I've looked at all the old videos and everything. They darken the helmet in 68. There's no question. So that helmet I have up top, I think it's a 68 version because this is a picture from 1968. And there's no doubt in my mind. Look at how dark the Jersey is. Look at the pants, but the helmet is super dark. you get that same look, but this is the white Jersey, white Jersey. They had the one simple stripe down the side of the pants, no striping on the socks. And what they did back then, the socks they wore were like stirrup socks, you wear in baseball. So guys would like tape their ankle, pull the stirrups up and then put white socks over. So the white socks came up and met, you know, some part of the stirrup. There were stirrups under underneath some of the teams like the Colts I've seen them, you know, ⁓ seen the socks at the hall of fame. they were stirrup socks, but they have the white stripes on them. Like you might have one of the baseball socks. And, um, but they put it over the foot and then it put the white over that to cover it. So that's the look that the NFL teams generally had. I just found another picture of Sonny with the shoulder stripes on the white Jersey and showing how dark that helmet is in that picture. this is the year of Lombardi. Okay. So in the summer of 69, that was a song, right? That was a Brian Adams song. summer of 69, but yeah, in that summer of 69, um, you see Frank Ryan and Vince Lombardi in the picture and that's Juergensen wearing in 1969, you know, just like in 2019 was a hundredth and the 20th, it was a hundredth season of the NFL. They called it the anniversary, but I guess technically it was a hundredth season. So in 69, it was the 50th season. So in that 50th season in 1969, they wore that patch that NFL 50 patch and I have one, I have it on a jersey. I'm not going to pull it out right now, but I have one of these. It's a replica. That's Frank Ryan, the quarterback from the 64 Cleveland Browns championship, hand the ball to Jim Brown. And sometime he threw it to Bobby Mitchell, play with those guys. At end of his career, he came over to Washington to backup Sonny. Only one season he did it. Um, so in that summer of 69, those Two uniforms I showed before the plum color helmet, the dark Jersey. That's what they wore all summer awaiting the opening of the box. And like I said, when they opened the box, they got that Jersey. you're looking at this Jersey. You see how rare that Jersey is, how plum and how they had to redo the helmet. it's a much better, it was a much better picture of the patch. That is Sam Huff, Hall of Fame linebacker, West Virginia University, the violent world of Sam Huff in the early sixties when he played with the Giants was a Walter Cronkite production. um, Huff became really famous. He, the Giants defense was very famous. had, you know, a Rosie Greer, they had some, some, uh, Dick Mazaletsky. Uh, yeah, he was from the university of Maryland, Mazaletsky. Um, I think that's right. ⁓ gosh, the, guy that played defensive end was, it was a great, but they also had, Emily and ⁓ Chanel was hall of famer cornerback. So they had some great players playing, for the giant defense. And that was becoming a thing. Their defense was kind of outshining their offense, even though they had Frank Gifford and, at that time they had Y.A. Tittle at the end of the time that, Huff was there. So I've had a very bad ending with the giants. Allie Sherman was the head coach and he was in the 61, 62 and 63 NFL championship game. He got beaten every time, got beat twice, one time really bad, 37, nothing by the Packers. Then I think it was 16 to seven and then he lost by a field goal, I believe against the, uh, Bears with Hallis. That's the one where George Allen was carried off the field. as the defensive coordinator, but my point is Ali Shermey lost, Ali lost three championships in a row and was of disgruntled. I think by the whole, how things were going. So he started dumping people. And I think the story was he told Sam Huff literally in a meeting. Now you're fine, Sam, we're going to keep you around. And as he was trading him, like he's, he's kicking him out of the door as he's telling him, he's still on the team. And it broke his heart. always wanted to be a giant. So he comes to Washington upset. They got released by the giants he meets Sonny Jurgensen and they become best friends. And Sonny had some issues in Philadelphia, clearly too. So they both come there with another opportunity to over and they become lifelong friends. mean, the rest of their lives, were less until Sam Huff's passing. They were best friends. ⁓ it's, a really, they say were the, they both referred to each other as the brother they never had. All right. So here's another guy special to me and this is a really good shot of the uniform, the quality of, of, of, think the fabric then there was thicker jerseys and things, but that's Charlie Taylor. see the shoulder patch. You see his spear ⁓ and where that rivet is in the back. They've kind worked the, the decal around it a little bit, but you see the gold, the bottom white at the top, then gold white, you know, on the hanging feather. You can see how red the helmet is because of the color change. You see how red the Jersey is, but you also see clearly the green Bay trim. So when I refer to this green Bay trim, that's it. It's gold, a little bit of the primary color, white primary color back to gold. So with the Packers, it was green. Everything you see in there that you see Burgundy is green with the Packers. It's the same Jersey. It's the same make. It's the same uniform. I threw this in, even though it's black and white, because there's a touching picture to me. This is week two when they played the Cleveland Browns and that's Lombardi besides Sonny. That picture is not in color, but I'd love for it to be in color, but it just thought it was really neat. Sonny's probably taking a knee there. They're watching the defense and Lombardi is And saw him two weeks later, but this, when this photograph was taken two weeks later, they're playing the Cardinals in Washington. The first time in RFK, October 12th, 69. I was at that game first time fans the first time that Washington Redskins ever played in RFK Stadium. was there. That's one of my happiest moments to know that because I love that place. So Lombardi died September 3rd, 1970. So again, he gets through the 69 season with the new colors because of the screw up with the, with his brother-in-law screwing up the team color and having repaint the helmets. So. And summer of 69, and I talked about this when I did the show on Sunny, I'm at the swimming pool, community swimming pool that we we we joined at some point in my youth. and the guy that I went to the games with was at the pool. He and his wife and daughter, I think would come to the pool and I sort of heard him talking to my dad, like in whispered tones. Not for me to hear, but I overheard it anyway. it's like, yeah, it didn't look like Lombardi is going to make it. And I don't know anything yet. It's summer of 69. I'm sorry. Summer of 70. I'm sorry. I messed that all up. It's summer of 70. He makes it through the 69 season. He makes it through that one year in 69. Now he's going to be the coach for 70. And now he's getting ready to implement his next move on the uniform. That's where I'm going with this. So in slide number 22, this picture I'm showing, this was his next attempt. at really going green Bay, the pants had already gone really gold. That's already happened. The Jersey have already gone really burgundy or really Cardinal. And now he wants to get away from the spear helmet and like the green Bay Packers had the green and white stripes with the G on the side. He was going to put an R on the side for red skins. I always thought the G was kind of weird. Why wasn't it GB? You know, it's green. Green Bay, I guess the Bay is assumed, the B is assumed, you know, cause it is a G, it's green, but the, but you know, the town's Green Bay. Why doesn't there a G, but anyway, they put a G inside the circle. So now they put an R inside of a circle with a feather hanging off. Like, okay, that was a 70, 71 helmet. Now this is for Lombardi. So Lombardi doesn't live to see it. He dies September 3rd, 1970. The season opens like a week, two weeks later. I think it's two weeks. I think it's like the 20th of September. So he doesn't make it to opening day. They know he's dying as the season, as the pre-season's ending, they know he's going to pass and he does. uh, but this is his uniform. This was his uniform. that's a really good shot of the helmet. have those. You see the goal when I have up here, right above my hand. That's signed that one signed by Sonny Jurgensen. And it's basically what you see on his head right here. It's just, it's a remake of that model. And you can see how Cardinal, the Jersey is that Sonny and picture 23 picture 24 is the white Jersey. I know that picture is 1970. And that's the same model that you have up here that I have in the room and picture 24. Um, that is the. He wore the RK Redel and then he went to the TK in 71. So he wore two different models of gold helmet with the R on the side. And I have both. I have it in different collection than the one I have sitting up here, but yeah, I changed out the helmet from 70 to 71. Now, I love this picture. that is a picture of Sonny running the offense with the new John Two Guns White Calf. So the John Two Guns White Calf again was offered to the team by Walter Blackie Wetzel, who was a, you know, a leader, a civil rights leader among Native American people and part of the Blackfoot Nation. And he comes in and says, let's put this, let's put this, um, symbol or logo on the helmet. And they do. So you still see the Green Bay trim, all Green Bay trim, Green Bay trim, new helmet. I love the new helmet. That's my favorite helmet. always be my favorite helmet, but that's it. Okay. John Two Guns white calf. Now I concluded this number 26. This is, uh, this is first year and the decal was much bigger. When you see that circle. with two guns, white calf. That's, that's a big, bigger model of the logo. That's first year. Cause what you see right there, that picture is a Superbowl. So they broke out the helmet in 72, go 11 and three, make the Superbowl. And in the LA Coliseum lose 14-7 to the Miami Dolphins. That is from Billy Kilmer in the game, in that Superbowl. You notice the socks trim. The socks trim was also Packard's. It's exactly like the Jersey trim. I like that. I wish it would go back to that. if I, if I had controlled the team, I would darken all these colors and wear that. That would be one uniform, that helmet, that Jersey, those pants got it. And then on the white ones, I would, I would do the white jerseys, but I'm there. I'm going to get to something. One thing I saw live, I was at, This picture back here, I put my finger right on it. That's Levar Arrington scoring on January think it was 2006, the 2005 season. It's the game that Sean Taylor got kicked out of for spitting on the running back Pittman for the, the Buccaneers. was there in Tampa. It's also a game that Sean Taylor picked up a ball on the dead run and scored on a fumble. But Levar, I love Levar. That was the white over white. ⁓ was bad ass. just was. It was a good look. I got it coming up too. And I got just the guy to show you yet, but they did go all white, which I never thought I'd like, but man, I loved that uniform when they did that. Cause they darkened the helmets by that point though five, they were wearing a much darker shade. It's two guns on the side. They got the white Jersey over the white pants. It was clean. It was, it was a good look. really was. All right. Anyway, the Green Bay trim on the Redskins uniform with John Two Guns on the side. And this is Sonny again. So this is Sonny in his gold pants. And you notice that it's exactly what the Packers did where the Packers had that trim that I showed you on the dark Jersey. On the white Jersey for both the Redskins and the Packers, it was color gold, color gold, either green or burgundy, whichever, you know, the two teams. So that's the same trim. And you see Sonny, this is 1974. The reason I know that, and I had a replica made of this helmet, he's wearing a one bar face mask and that's a Rawlings helmet. He always wore Riddell. Why in 74, he decided to go to this helmet? I don't know, but I made one just like it. I found the model and I had my friend fix it up and it looks just like that. So that's, that picture is from 1974, Sonny Jurgensen's last season. All right. The next picture, That's Joe Theismann. And this is to signify the first change about something that since 72, 72 changed the helmet. So you see the same helmet, but what you see different for the first time, they have a gold mask. So this is what they wore in 1978. And 77 was the last year of the gray mask. So. If you saw this picture in 77, it'd be exactly the same except the gray mask. So now in 78, they're still wearing the Green Bay uniform, the Green Bay gold, but the red skins colors, two guns, white calf on the side, but they went to a gold mask. Picture 29 is kind of a spread out picture where you see them playing the Cowboys and you're seeing more players out there. That really shows you the colors. You see the gold mass, that's Chris Hamburger with Jack Pardee. Interestingly enough, they played in the Super Bowl together. When Pardee came in in 71 with Allen, he started at one side, he started left linebacker and Chris Hamburger started right linebacker. So they played together as teammates. So when Allen sent Packett in 77, Pardee comes in to coach 78, 79 and 80 before Joe Gibbs. And what's interesting is he goes exactly 500. He, in the 78 season, he has the, he has the eight and eight season. goes eight and I was trying to the year he did. Yeah. was eight and eight and then 79, the first year of the new uniform that we're going to show that's the year that the Redskins are up by 13 with minutes left and stallback goes down and scores two quick touchdowns and beats them. And knocks him out of the playoffs. And that's when John Riggins didn't come back for the 80 season. lot of things happened after that game. But, so party went from eight and eight to 10 and six. Got knocked out of the playoffs to come back the next year and go six and 10. So that's like, say, I know he's exactly 500. Eight wins, 10 losses, 10 wins in three seasons. And then, you know, that was, that was it. Um, He had flipped identical records in an eight and eight and he was out. Joe Gibbs was in. So this is a picture from 1978 as well. This is Joe Theismann. So this is what the white uniform looked like once they'd gone to the gold mask. This is a pretty good look and you're going to see it because it's going to come back except with the R helmet as a throwback, but it's going to be that uniform on the, on the, bottom side. It's going to be that Jersey, those pants and those socks. So here we go. getting here to picture number 32. I wonder how many can do this, identify these people. So bottom left is Mark Murphy. The next guy's Lamar Parrish, number 24, Joe Lavender who wore glasses. And so did Tony Peters. Joe Lavender is a very tall corner. This is a good defensive too, by the way. Now Murphy. And Peters ended up being in that Superbowl team that won it in 82. They were still around. Um, I think Lavender played that year. think he made it to that Superbowl, but I think he was getting spot time because by this time the corners were Jairus white and Fred Dean, Fred Dean. Um, I'm sorry, Vernon Dean. Fred Dean was an offensive lineman and it wasn't offensive line for the risk. I'm saying Fred Dean. There was a defensive lineman came from San Diego to, I mean, Yeah, came from San Diego to the 49 is also named Fred Dean, but Fred Dean was the starting right guard in Superbowl 17. But anyway, yeah, the starting corners in Superbowl 17 was Jairus White and Vernon Dean, who was a rookie from San Diego State that year. So back to the picture. Murphy was the free safety. And Tony Peters, as you can kind of tell number 23 on the right was a dude. I mean, he was put together. He could play. was all, he was a pro baller. And after they win the super bowl, he gets busted for cocaine and had to set the next year out. And he came back. He was never quite the same, but he was a dude. liked him. I was, I was one of my favorite. He came from the Browns. think he came from another team, but Murphy, parish, lavender, Peters. So I sent that, I posted this picture picture number 32, cause That's the new uniform. So I talk about the burgundy pants, the white top, the trim. That's it. That's it right there. And then in picture 33, it's all of them with their helmets on. So once again, when you look across the picture, you see Lavender, you see Peters, you see Mark Murphy, you see Lamar Parrish. So that's that group that were defensive backs at the time. but the picture number 34 is Dave Butts who passed away here a few years ago, way too soon. 72, I think he wasn't very old in today's standards. And he has on exact opposite uniform, the burgundy over white pants. Now you notice the socks are different. They always, they have been, except when you see, when I show you the all white uniform they wore in the Joe Gibbs time, they wore the long burgundy with the white. They didn't wear the pretty much all white with the burgundy and gold stripe like you see with the burgundy pants. The stripes you see, or the pants you see are made for the white pants. It's the longer burgundy part at the calf and then the white pants. So that's that. Picture 35 is John Regan's. I know this game. It was against the Steelers. was 1985, November, 1885. Joe Theismann's leg is snapped in half by Lawrence Taylor, RFK stadium, kid named Jay Schrader, who I was a big fan of. A lot of people weren't, but I liked Jay. Jay had a big arm. Jay comes in, wins that game, and he's the starting quarterback the rest of the year. What people forget is he went five and one in relief of Joe Theismann and went 14, I'm sorry, in 12 and four the next year. Every time I see them talk about some player in his first 20 starts, he's always listed. He had one of the best starts as a starter in NFL history. Um, he just didn't sustain it. He lost a job to Doug Williams. think the whole thing got kind of ugly. There were people for him against him, whatever, but that's Jay Schrader. That's John Riggins and this is Riggins in his last year. This is Riggins in his last games. Actually. Um, I showed that picture cause it's an 85 picture. this picture I have is, um, Kelvin Bryant from Tarboro, North Carolina went to Chapel Hill, played at Carolina. play with Lawrence Taylor. Do you play with Ethan Horton too? You would have played with Horton, right? Am I telling the right time? Yeah, I think he did. so anyway, he played with some dudes. Carolina had some players come out. Calvin Daniels played on that team. Calvin Daniels was kind of a poor man's Lawrence Taylor. He played with us in Washington a little bit, but he looked like him. mean, ⁓ size nobody played like Lawrence Taylor. Lawrence Taylor was, as I say in every show. The best ever Virginia product, you know that so, but LT was the best ever. But yeah, him and not Kelvin Bryant played together at Carolina. was a big Kelvin Bryant fan. I was a big Kelvin Bryant fan when he was at Carolina. And then he went and played in New Jersey and USFL and we drafted him and we had his rights. And when the USFL busted up, he came to Washington. So that was 1986. And you see in this photograph, you see the patch, which I have several of. On the Jersey, the 50th anniversary, which is a big season for me. I really enjoyed that year, 1986. Cause I like Schrader and you know, Clark was a new thing. Clark was in the second year, second year, third year, third year actually. And they picked up Ricky Sanders from the busted USFL. Ricky Sanders, wore 46 that first year. Then he went on to wear 83. But big Ricky, the posse, the posse was now in town. And so that was the thing in 1986, 1980, I mean, in the picture 37 mentioned super bowl 22, January 88, 87 season. They up and that was kind of back and forth between him and Schrader and Doug Williams gets it in the end. then he picked the best day of his life to have the best day of his life. And 18 plays, we scored five touchdowns and San Diego, Jack Murphy stadium, uh, John Elway, those first pass Ricky and the teal. They beat Barry Wilburn who tragically just passed away. I think he was in a house fire. I saw something the other day and it really kind of broke my heart because I was a big fan. Barry Wilburn had nine interceptions that year, made the Pro Bowl, was a really good player, but he got beat on this touchdown. Denver gets the ball back. They're just about knocking on the for another touchdown. Butts makes a miraculous play to stop Elway from quarterback sneaking like a quarterback draft or draw, draft, draw. He runs a quarterback draw and almost scores, but butt stops him. The kick of field goes 10-0. Williams goes down, he's injured. Schrader comes in for two plays and Kelvin Bryant pretty much ended his time as a redskin because he missed a block and Schrader got sacked. And then he came out of the backfield and Schrader hit him right in the hands and he dropped it. I don't know that he would have made up 22 yards for the first down. But Kelvin Bryant was pretty directly responsible for Schrader playing no more in that game. Cause if he'd had caught fire and thrown a couple of completions, maybe he stays in. But as it turns out, this gives Doug Williams enough time to hobble around the sideline, get his leg right and comes back in. the second half. I want to say first player, the second half, that's second half, second quarter. I'm sorry. Still first half, second quarter. He hooks up with Ricky Sanders, 80 yards touchdown. That is they can't stop. I mean, it's 18 offensive plays. Five touchdowns, 35 points. And so I'll never forget that. mean, anybody from that time will never forget. It's like they scored like, okay, okay. It's 10, seven. We're back here. We scored again. It's 14. Oh, it's over up 14. And I was 21. And it was like, wait a wait a It's 28. No, it's 35. It was 35 to 10 in moments. And the game was, oh, is that a question? And then we come back and, um, scored another touchdown and make it 42. That's the ball game. Okay. So picture 38 is what you see in the prior picture 37 in picture 38. That is a picture of Doug Williams helmet at the hall of fame at Canton. That's not my picture. I've taken that picture myself. Um, I stood right there and looked at it and saw the beauty of the decal and all that kind of stuff. But that's, that's it. That's from something I pulled, um, just pulled off the internet from the hall of fame. But that is a picture of his helmet. And I have been at the hall of fame and taking the same picture. I just wanted to kind of give you a standard issue look at Darryl Green in uniform. So Darryl Green came in as a rookie in 83, famously September 5th, 1983, the first night he played in the NFL. Monday night football, Washington's way the heck up at the end of the first half. I think it was, I don't want to be wrong. But I think it was 30 to 3 or something like that and ended up losing 31 to 30 I don't know that we scored the second half. I can't remember if it was 23, but mean Redskins are beating the hell out of them. They're coming off the Super Bowl They're coming off of beating the Cowboys 31-17 the NFC Championship game in January of 83 coming off the 82 season and Now it's opening night September 5 1983 and it is the night the Darrell Green runs Tony Dorsett down from behind That's famous. Okay. This is first game in the NFL. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember him preseason. He, the first time he touched the ball, returned to kick off or a punt, a punt against the Atlanta Falcons. I remember this in preseason. I was at a wedding that night. I went, I was in a wedding and then we were all sitting around watching the game and ran a kickback and then he got called back on a penalty. But I was like, ⁓ my, he can, he can really run. He wasn't used that much except for famously, course, in the 87 season when it was needed to beat the bears to get, to the Superbowl to beat the Broncos. He returned the kick against the bears. It was horribly cold. And as he ⁓ hurtled a tackler, he pulled something in his rib cage and grabbed his rib cage and made it into the end zone. Green, great player. Recently, right to the screen here, recently acquired this ⁓ I'm a big fan. I, I definitely have some Darryl green memorabilia, but anyway, I wanted to show this picture to just kind of go, Hey, that's what a player looks like ⁓ in our Generally. that's it. That's the white over the burgundy. And this picture Is the Washington Redskins often celebrating in the last moments of Super Bowl 26 Super Bowl 26? got Super Bowl 26 balls all over the place. here's one. Yeah. Anyway, I could pick it up, but yeah, let's pick it up. All right. So off the picture, Laura and back to there is Super Bowl 26 ball played in Minneapolis. and played on Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 26, 1992 Redskins Bills. We win that one 37 to 24. That game was really not that it was really 37 to 10 and Buffalo got some cheapy touchdowns at the end of the game. All right. So again, that picture on our list here, number 40 is a picture of what they look like in uniform. On the last super bowl victory. Now, I'm going to get into some pictures of throwbacks that they've worn. here is a picture of Gus, Gus Ferotte after the Heath Schuller draft and 93 draft didn't work out so well. Is that 93, 94? I'm going to go, I guess it was 94, wasn't it? Yes, it was 94. Cause that's right. 92 was Gibbs last season. 93 was the season that put us in a position two, cause that was Pettibones one season. I think he was three and 13 after beating the Cowboys opening night without Emmett Smith. And then they go, think it, I think it was three and 13. So after the three and 13 to get to pick third overall, and it's, it's kind of a thing, Trent Dilfer, or do we go with Keith Schuller? And I don't think either one of them would have been the right pick, but Schuller kind of turns out to be a bus. Nice guy. North Carolina guys serves in Congress, but it goes to Tennessee, goes to Tennessee, but you know, he's from the Western part of North Carolina. So Gus Farrott comes in from Tulsa in the sixth round and actually wins the job. So this picture, picture 41 is the 75th anniversary of the league, 1994. And they do these throwbacks. So they kind of, they've got the, um, the Indian head. on the sleeve, which was something from the thirties. So I think it's supposed to be a thirties throwback. see the color of the pants and since they're wearing leather helmets at the time, it's not exactly like they can wear a leather helmet. So they just took the decals. They had this dark Jersey with these mustard colored pants or whatever. It's almost golden pants. And they just threw, just took the decals off the helmet and said, have at it. Just wear your regular helmet without the decals. Then the next throwback I got here is Darryl Green. It's the seventh anniversary is 2002. It's the team's 70th anniversary going back to 1932. Um, they got the seventh 70th anniversary patch on here. This one Reebok made the Jersey. They did it better than anybody. They put the spear on the Jersey. They pretty much kind of come close to matching the pants color from the 60. But what they threw here together, none of this ever existed. And I actually heard Sonny Juergensen explain that to Sam Huff on the air one day. Sam Huff's like, that's like that uniform we wore back in 69. And Juergensen's like, no, we kind of wore pants like that, but not the same color. We kind of wore the Jersey like that, but not with this spear on it and not in that color. So, you know, he was kind of, and the spear helmet we wore, I get what Sam Huff was saying. This is sort of like the 69 look. Except the colors wrong. got spears all over the place that they didn't have on those uniforms. I don't hate this. I do like the plum color. I love the spear helmet. Um, I didn't like the angle of the spears either. They had them like straight across instead of working up from the back of the helmet, like they used to in the good old days. But anyway, then on picture 43, it's the same thing only I'm, doing my tribute there to Levar Arrington. I'm a huge Levar Arrington fan. Didn't go well for him there in Washington. He got three Pro Bowls in a row and then they got it was Williams' defensive coordinator or whether it was to some degree Gibbs. They didn't like him or he didn't like something. Something didn't go right there because Williams wouldn't play him at points. And I knew he was a guy ⁓ and I Tom Loviro said this one time, you know, very respected sports writer in DC. Been on the radio for years and he was doing a show with the guy years ago. And I think he's so right about this. He said he was the one guy I saw I thought might be LT again. Like none of them had been. And I think Errington played like 255 or better. I mean, he was huge. Like he was just a big linebacker. He could run. I saw him play live. I saw it. Saw him and Sean Taylor on the same field. Yes, was pretty good. I saw him and champ Bailey before Sean Taylor was there. I mean, I saw champ Bailey really good, big fan of champ Bailey. And I know he was out when Portis was in, but I saw Levar Arrington. I saw him real good. And it's just, when you're at a game live, you're looking down, you're like, that's a big dude. He's, he's bigger than everybody else to play linebacker. And so if Levar, if you're listening, I'm one of your biggest fans, brother. I just always thought you were a great player. And, I missed those days when we were getting magical guys and like champ Bailey and getting LeBar Arrington you know, getting guys like that meant we were bad though, too, though, cause we were picking one and two and three and well, Sean was five. He was a two. champ was a six, I think. So they were all taken high, which meant we weren't doing so well at the time. now. this is the ⁓ next big 2007, same as this. They wore this patch, 75th anniversary patch on the Jersey the Lombardi era, not Lombardi had passed, but well, the 69 uniform is 69 white uniform with ⁓ the Lombardi helmet that didn't live to see. So it's back to the R on the side with the. burgundy stripe gold helmet. I was a fan then. I wasn't a fan of the gold helmet so much when was used. But man, when they came back with it, when it came back in the throwback thing and I was kind of like reliving the childhood, like, okay, that's kind of, I remember that R. I it now. I got several of them in my collection of ⁓ redskin helmets and I love them now. I didn't like them when they played with them. I think it was because they were coming off the spear and I liked the spear. And when they went to two guns, it was over. was like, okay, that's the helmet, especially burgundy. Again, it's dark and they, you know, in all the imagery, I just, love the helmet. So that's Sean Taylor. Picture 45 is Jason Campbell when he was the quarterback. get a little bit different view of that, but that is a throwback. And this is Brian Ryan, Ryan Carrigan and Brian Rockpo when they were both playing for Washington. As defensive ends in this was the 80th anniversary throwback. So in this, they tried to recreate the leather helmet by doing this gold helmet that kind of looked like leather. ⁓ did, they did the same thing when, when, and this is again, they did the thing when RG three was there. They, they did some kind of a. pattern on the helmet that made it look like leather almost like there was pores to I don't know what the term would be exactly but the imperfections you see in the grain leather they made it kind of look grainy like leather to simulate the helmet from again the 1930s and then picture 47 is one I'm want to I say I have a Sean Taylor helmet back here. I'm fan, you know, I grew up a fan, you know, get into all the questions of the team and all this kind of stuff. There's a human element to all this, given the that work with a lot of kids in professional baseball. I've known some people in pro football, but not well, they haven't had close friends. I've known some people that have played professionally, known a lot of people to play professional baseball. You're a celebrity at some level. You're a known figure. You kind of, sometimes you're household name. You're a lot of different things, but you're human. I will just never forget Sean Taylor and what he meant to me as a fan. And I pulled up this picture, this particular picture 47, I got crazy good memories of this. And I got LeVar in the same uniform back here in that picture against Tampa. Sean Taylor. I've said it hundred million times. I'm saying it again. I recognize this again. LT is the best ever defensively. Sean Taylor is the best I ever saw. One giant risking game I went to LT didn't play. I know it. I know it from watching him on TV and I kind of just know it from seeing him. I just know that LT, but I don't know what Sean Taylor ends up going down as if he lives, if he lives past, and he was 24 years of age. He was 24 when his life was taken. And it messed me up as a fan. messed me up as a human being. just, when I heard it, I mean, I know he, he'd made some, he turned some corners in his life. know Joe Gibbs had been somewhat of a positive influence, I'm sure, but he loved his baby and it was back and forth to Florida to see his child as much as he could. He loved his fiance and wherever his life was, doesn't make a damn bit of difference that a young man's life got cut short and it was wrong. It's just bad. But I'm saying some of the sadness that we saw. As fans, as we saw him turning a corner as a player, I never saw anything like him. God bless Ronnie Lott. Ronnie Lott's one of the greatest ever. there are safeties in the history of game. And he was a corner and played safety. There's impact players. get it. ⁓ Ken God love him. The Washington Redskins. Houston, Washington, I mean, played with Houston Oilers and the Washington Redskins. And he made the hall of fame. And I don't know that he's any more. ⁓ an oiler than he was a red scan. had a great, well, he did some crazy things with the oilers too, like kick returns. mean, touchdown returns on interceptions. He had crazy records as an oiler and he came to Washington and finished out his hall of fame career. There's guys. There's guys that are special that play in every position or any of the positions on the field. I mean, it's great kickers, punters. I mean, there's everybody, but when it comes to, just look at this picture. He looks fast in the still photograph, mean, a photograph that still, he looks fast in that he was physical. He was big. And again, when I was at that Buccaneers game, I saw him and LeVar on the same field. And that was something I'm telling you. Cause like there's a, it's, it's like you're at a game when you're live, it's, you see the defensive lineman, there's a defensive lineman size and shape. There's a linebacker size and shape. And there's a, there's a defensive back and Sean Taylor. It's like a father son game. looked like he was in the backyard with his kids. they just, he looked linebacker big. I know people are like, Oh my gosh, you're really bad. No, no, you had to see him play. mean, the dude was huge to play, to play safety, um, play anywhere in the defensive backfield. He was a big dude and Levar would be around, um, was it DeMarcus Washington was it was the other linebacker outside linebacker and he made him look small. Um, And, ⁓ was it Lamar Marshall was playing middle then, and I loved him, but he was like six, four and not very heavy, but could run. It's a good defense. were doing, Philip Dangles was playing then. mean, it was, it was an interesting group they had going. anyway, they won that playoff game. I was there with this all white, this all white was strong. mean, a strong look. And again, you see they have the burgundy socks and he's got the tape on the ankles and everything. He's got a little bit of towel going and he did the fingers. he taped the fingers, but that's a good look. And that helmet had been darkened and that Jersey, the can tell the stuff they're wearing is dark. It's like, it's like a darker burgundy approaching that plum color almost. That's what I want right there in a uniform. That would be one of my alternatives is white on white like that. I hope they do that with the team. I wish there was more on the helmet, course, but yeah. But rest in peace. God bless him. big fan, big fan of Sean Taylor loved him. He was a great player and, just sad the whole, the whole thing that happened with it. it's been 2007. ⁓ And we're approaching 20 years on that too. And I remember it like it was yesterday when I was told when I went straight to the internet and started pulling up stuff, is it true or what's going to happen? And I think he lived 25 hours after he was shot. He made it about 20. And I think there was a, I remember at one point there was a good report that came out that he might make it. was November 28 ish I think like that. Cause I think the game I went to against Buffalo was the first couple of days of December. And they had been to the funeral. They had gone to the funeral and they came back and it's, um, and Gibbs called two times to timeouts back to back. And that costs us the game against the bills. And we ran the first play and, um, Oh, the kid Dowdy, um, that was, that was the safety that had to poor guy had to replace him in the lineup. And they set him the first play. Uh, I don't know that Williams, um, The coordinator told you that I don't know, but they went 10 man on the first play is a tribute to Sean Taylor and then ⁓ Buffalo up like 40 yards on a run. You might've gotten 40 yards on that run anyway. I there might've just been a poor design on the defense or just they got tricked, but it was bad play. So Sean Taylor, great player, great looking at uniform. and I'm going to close on this. This is when they went to the gold pants. And this is what I was talking about. Bothered me. The gold pants and you can't see, so much of it in the picture. The old pants is picture 48 is the old burgundy, white burgundy, green Bay type of pants, but they're wearing the top like this. They're wearing the 79 Ford red skin look and throwing it. On the gold pants from a different era. So I was never a fan of that because I knew better. was like, those two things don't go together. You're messing up and nobody listened. Okay. But anyway, so that's our trip down memory lane, um, about the uniforms. Like I say, I a lot of memorabilia around like that. Um, but I do want to say this in close, this is it. If I had the team tomorrow, we had the name back and we had two guns on the helmet. I would wear the two guns helmet. I would wear the R helmet exactly like Sean and them wore at that time. You know, let them have the gold pants, the white top, the gold helmet. That'd be an alternative. But I would love to see them go back to white numbers a darkened Jersey. Sort of like that plum color, but just go back and put the Green Bay trim and the Green Bay pants in a darker gold color. So I know I'm kind of messing with history a little bit. but I tell you what, I wouldn't have minded if they'd ever gone back to the spear, helmet the plum and just the plain Jersey and the, and the mustard pants. I'd have been fine with that. There's kinds of combinations I could go with when the history and the fact that they can do alternatives and stuff, it'd be kind of neat, but I do like when the colors skew more dark, except that I do like, like that Sean Taylor picture. The helmet was darker. have the different years of helmets and they definitely got darker. I liked that a lot better. The numbers got darker on that white jersey, the stripes on the pants, the socks. It a good look. The white on white was good. And I never would have believed I would have liked it because I'm not a white on white guy generally. ⁓ don't like all white uniforms, but I like some color in the uniforms, but man, that was a good look. Okay, folks, please like, subscribe. me what you think. Tell me if this going down memory lane brings back any good about some players in the past and some of the looks you liked in the uniforms more than others. And again, the Redskins were pretty unique as far as having lots of different looks on the helmet. Changed a lot. But again, God bless you all. Please again, give me some feedback on what you did like about the uniforms. Give me some feedback about the first show. Am I going down too many memory lanes about trying to bring the name back? Did the team kind of cross that line? Are they getting some righteous anger about putting the spear on the helmet? A lot of stuff going on with that. All right. Take care. God bless. Like, subscribe. Share with others. Take care. Bye-bye.