Jump to content
Washington Football Team Logo
Extremeskins

Favorite Redskins Victories


WonderBoy

Recommended Posts

Sorry if this has been done, but I searched and did not find. I'm gonna list my top 5 Redskins victories starting with the 2000 season which is when I became a fan. You can list your top 5 as well or as many as you want.

Here we go:

 

5. '01 season vs. New Orleans Saints, 40-10 Redskins. Aaron Brooks and the Saints take an early 10 point lead. The Redskins score 40 unanswered points and win on a Monday night!

 

4. '00 season vs. the defending super bowl champion St. Louis Rams, 33-20 Redskins. Another Monday night where we didn't embarass ourselves! Again, our opponents take an early 10 point lead. But Jeff George!! Jeff George decides to show up, throw 3 TDs and lead the 'skins to a victory!! We got a safety in that one too, Satisfying win!

 

3. '01 season vs. Carolina Panthers, 17-14 Redskins. We were 0-5 going in and looking like the worst team in the NFL by FAR. Down 14-0, La'Var Arrington wakes the team up with a beautiful pick 6! The next Redskins drive, Tony Banks launches a bomb to Rod Gardner to tie the game 14-14. We march down the field again with Banks completing passes downfield. We stall out in the redzone and I was sure Conway was going to miss the chip shot opportunity somehow. But it was good! 17-14 'skins!

 

2. '12 season vs. Dallas Cowboys, 38-31 Redskins. Thanksgiving day with rookie RG3 turning it on and throwing 4 TDs. The first one being a beautiful downfield bomb to Aldrick Robinson. For the first time in a long time it looked like we had found our franchise QB. It looked that way... But yet, still a very exciting win!

 

1. '05 season vs. Dallas Cowboys, 14-13 Redskins. A Joe Gibbs team is down 13-0 on a Monday night. Mark Brunell is not producing and we are looking boooooring. Out of nowhere, Brunell throws a bomb to Santana Moss. I'm thinking to myself, "Yeah, whatever, doesn't matter really, we're not gonna beat the Cowboys in Dallas on a Monday night.. forget it" Well he does it again, 70 yards this time! My dad says "We scored too quick." We were able to hold on and win! This gave us the confidence to crush the Cowboys later in the season 35-7! It was tough to not list that one in the top 5 but it gets an honorable mention.

 

I would like to read about your favorites, perhaps from some of the championship years which were before my time :( Let me know if I missed some obvious ones!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Troy Vincent block FG game vs. Dallas is one of my favorites ( Nov.2006)  Sean Taylor picked it up and then was Dallas was flagged for a facemask on Taylor.   . Novak kicked the game winner 22-19! 

 

The 1987 (season) Championship game vs the Vikings.  I miss Summerall and Madden together...their voices take me back to my youth :(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That list is so so sad. I feel you tho because I'm only 22 myself.

My list is just as pathetic I guess.

1. 2012 division clincher over Dallas

2. 2006 Wild Card win over TB. Awful game btw.

3...um....

Um.....

2005 Playoff clinching game over Philly? We went down early then fought back.

4. 2012 Season opener versus NO. This game actually makes me more sad than anything else now

5. Monday Night Miracle in 2005

(And ppl wonder why I'm a jaded, cynical **** lol)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'm a crusty old guy (48) so I'll try to pick one from each of the decades I've been a fan:

 

1970s: Skins over Cowboys 30-24, 1975: OT thriller at RFK that ends with a Kilmer QB sneak. Unfortunately, didn't make the playoffs that season.

 

1980s: NFCCG over Cowboys and XVII over Dolphins: if I had to pick one it'd probably be the NFCCG, but 70-Chip is too iconic to leave off the list

 

1990s: win over Eagles in wild-card round, early 1991: sweet revenge for the Body Bag Game and seeing Buddy's fat rearend waddle off the feld, Gibbs dismissive wave, and Ryan getting fired the next day was the cherry on top

 

2000s: 35-20 over Giants, late in 2005: must-win in the "five in a row or we don't go" stretch. Great atmosphere at FedEx.

 

2010s: division-clinching 28-18 win over Dallas at FedEx in 2012

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Troy Vincent block FG game vs. Dallas is one of my favorites ( Nov.2006)  Sean Taylor picked it up and then was Dallas was flagged for a facemask on Taylor.   . Novak kicked the game winner 22-19! 

 

 

 

This is definitely the best game I've been in attendance for.  The Jets beating us 3-0 in 1993 is probably 2nd on my all-time favorite list for games I've been to.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The 35-7 ass whooping of Dallas in 2005. Everyone talks about the close games but in the biggest game of the season between both teams we completely annihilated them. Soooo satisfying. Anyone still have that pic of Parcells looking sad with the 35-7 score in the background?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The 3 super bowl wins of course, in order 92, 88, 83.

 

Non Super Bowl: '82 NFC Title Game.


The 35-7 ass whooping of Dallas in 2005. Everyone talks about the close games but in the biggest game of the season between both teams we completely annihilated them. Soooo satisfying. Anyone still have that pic of Parcells looking sad with the 35-7 score in the background?

 

I do!

 

tuna.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Skins 45-0 over Detroit to open the 1991 season.  That was after a disastrous preseason.

 Damn near lost Rypien; he was wanting to get paid and it wasn't looking good for awhile.

Thank god they had patience back then...

 Not sure its my favorite, but the paloffs against da'Bears in 87.

 Walter Payton's last meaningful game, was cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra, and of course Summerall and Madden.

I've mentioned it before but its worth repeating; after Summerall had made a comment about William's gloves coming outta his pocket, Madden had to go and say 'when its cold like this your spit freezes, your sweat freezes, hec ANYTHING hanging on ya will freeze'.

A gem.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

OK< NOT Counting the Super Bowls, because obviously they are

1. Super Bowl 26 because it capped off the most dominant season we ever had.

2. Super bowl 17 because it was our first, and it came down to a 4th quarter 4th down run that will be remembered forever

and 3, Super Bowl 22 which is great, but a total blowout. It's awesome that Doug Williams won after getting injured, and being down 10-0 right away, but once the defense and OL decided they'd had enough, the Broncos had no chance at all. Williams stood back there and floated those passes like he was on a Sunday stroll, and Timmy Smith had holes so big the National Park service offered tours through them.

 

So after Super Bowls

 

5. Redskin 9 , Cowboys 5
1978, Monday night football.
Wow.  I've been a fan of defense ever since.There were two 4 down goal line stands and the defense held the Cowboys to a single field goal, while theirs held us to three field goals... It was a straight up toe-to-toe slugfest.

In the end the cowboys were trying desperately to stop us from running out the clock, and Joe theismann ran around in circles backwards about 40 yards before finally running it out of the back of the end zone as the clock hit zeros. it gave them a safety.

 

4. Redskins 40 - Saints 32
 RG3 coming out party. He was awesome. I don't care what anyone says about him now. He was awesome.

 

3. 1991 Divisional playoff game
Redskins 24 Falcons 7
All that mouth all that flash and neon, and the Redskins shut them down like 4 year olds in timeout. In a nasty n'oreaster that knocked cable out in my area right before kickoff.. everywhere,, so my buddy and i rigged up an aluminum foil thing with an old FM snake antenna and hung it out the window. The picture was terrible, but it was obvius.. the Redskins just pushed th showboat Falcons into the mud til they stopped squirming. 

 

 

2. 1990 Wild card playoff game
Redskins 20- eagles 6.
Th is is the part of the Body Bag game that nobody talks about. This was six weeks after Philly had their bounty game and put all sorts of Redskins in the hospital and everybody left us for dead. And we went into the Vet and gave up two turnovers, spotted them 6 points and kicked their ass.
Kicked. Their. ASS. Art Monk got mad, and that was it.

Any Eagle fan who ever brings that game up, remind them of this. Til they die.
F Buddy Ryan. Friggin' clown.

 

1. Redskins 37, Raiders 35

An awesome game. a 99 yard touchdown pass, a 97 yard punt return for a TD, a 4 down stand (howie long pointing at riggins is forever immortalized by NFL Films), BOTH teams overcame two score deficits in the 4th quarter ,, capped off with the infamous "rocket screen".. the time it WORKED and joe Morris went 69 yards to set up th game winning TD as time ran out.

800 yards of passing.
Best game i have ever seen.

 

~Bang
 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1. Redskins 37, Raiders 35

An awesome game. a 99 yard touchdown pass, a 97 yard punt return for a TD, a 4 down stand (howie long pointing at riggins is forever immortalized by NFL Films), BOTH teams overcame two score deficits in the 4th quarter ,, capped off with the infamous "rocket screen".. the time it WORKED and joe Morris went 69 yards to set up th game winning TD as time ran out.

800 yards of passing.

Best game i have ever seen.

 

~Bang

 

Did you mean Joe Washington?

 

Washington_Joe2_Redskins_vs_Raiders.jpg

 

Man, Joe Morris used to kill us.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I can think of several, but one I don't hear people talk about a lot is the 2011 game in Seattle.

That was one from the get-go that the Seahawks were trying to intimidate us and starting fights with some of our players. That was also one of those rare Roy Helu sightings as well, had a really nice hurdle play that made me believe he was back for a second.

One of those high character games I look for even when we suck, and stuff like that keeps me going as a fan (I'm 27).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

] I do!

That was my first game at fedex. My cousins wife bought him two tickets for his birthday. One for him. One for me. I'll never forget that day. We traveled from Gastonia,NC. Joe Gibbs on the sideline. Santana terrorizing safeties all year long. Sean Taylor at safety . Clinton Portis gutting defenses and knocking out blitzers. Cpt. Chaos earning every inch. All of them contributed to that glorious day that we beat the hell out of the Dallas Cowboys in a game both teams had to have. We sat beside a Dallas fan. He left the stadium at half time. I'm 32 years old. Skins fan my whole life. That is something that always makes me smile every time I think about it. I truly crave a day when we can have a consistent team that I can plan trips like that every year for.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Did you mean Joe Washington?

 

<STAFF EDIT, RULE 11 VIOLATION, DON'T QUOTE PICS. MEMBER PENALIZED>

 

Man, Joe Morris used to kill us.

 

It was Joe Washington, bang just prob got too excited flashing back. lol.

 

I should add 1 other game, the 83' paloffs against the Los Angeles Rams.

A bad-ass RB named Eric Dickerson who was blazing the league with his tall but fast running style, ROY tagged, torching opponents with 150+ yds rushing per game, was all but shut down to a mere 16 yds. He did do us a favor by knocking out Dallas the prior week, but against the Redskins he was stifled.

Headlines in Monday morning's newspapers read; Rams advice to 49ers, stay home, Redskins too tough'.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1) Nov. 1966 ... first game I can remember (11 yrs. old) ... listened on the radio ... we were  living in Springfield ... 72-41 over the Giants ...

 

2) 1972 NFC Championship Game at RFK ... beating Dallas ... we'd moved to Florida, but I was still a 'Skins fan ...

 

3) 1982 NFC Championship Game ... 31-17 over, who else, Dallas ... Darryl Grant intercepting, and then bulling his into the endzone ...

 

4) 1987 SBXXII ... "The Quarter" ... the complete destruction of the Denver Broncos and John Elway ...

 

5) 1991 NFC Championship Game ... destroying the Lions ... defensive domination ...

 

Of course, there are many more, but those I chose made me proud, in the moment, to be a Redskins fan ... HTTR !!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Damn near lost Rypien; he was wanting to get paid and it wasn't looking good for awhile.

Thank god they had patience back then...

Not sure its my favorite, but the paloffs against da'Bears in 87.

Walter Payton's last meaningful game, was cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra, and of course Summerall and Madden.

I've mentioned it before but its worth repeating; after Summerall had made a comment about William's gloves coming outta his pocket, Madden had to go and say 'when its cold like this your spit freezes, your sweat freezes, hec ANYTHING hanging on ya will freeze'.

A gem.

Rypien holdout was after the 91 season. He was there for the Detroit opener and you knew we were going to be good. All three phases of the game clicking, I remember screaming at Gibbs taking a knee with a couple minutes left, denying rookie Ricky Ervins a TD chance after he relieved Byner. I was also worried about missing out on the division based on fourth or fifth tie breaker, points. Man times have changed.

My favorite SB of the three wins was XXII and the best quarter of football ever. My favorite playoff win was the NFC Championship game in 82. I was very young but I remember pieces in real time. I then watched Hog Day Afternoon the next year until our beta VCR broke. My favorite game where I was in attendance was an early season one in San Diego where we came from way back (86). My favorite regular season game was the 1990 comeback in Detroit with Jeff Rutledge forced into action (for the young fans he was basically Loiller's personal holder). My favorite recent game is Santana in Big D.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The 35-7 ass whooping of Dallas in 2005. Everyone talks about the close games but in the biggest game of the season between both teams we completely annihilated them. Soooo satisfying. Anyone still have that pic of Parcells looking sad with the 35-7 score in the background?

I remember Cooley going off (3 td's...right?) in that game.  It was sweet.  Wasn't that the same year as the "Monday night miracle"?  Kind of a magical year.  Hail

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The 82 Championship game is about as good as it gets for us Skins fan I believe at least the ones old enough to remember it

 

 

Yep.

 

Fans to young to remember that time may not believe it, but back then the Redskins were the darling of the NFL World. :)

 

So many football fans loved them. The media loved them. They had a lot of personalities. Like "Mr. Hollywood" Joe Thiesmann, "The Rebel" John Riggins, Dexter Manley, the Smurfs, the Fun Bunch. That's why the media loved them, because they were a personality-driven team and great to read about and see.

 

Moreso, they were an exciting team to watch. They could light up the field on offense or defense.

 

That was in '82 and lasted through the '83 season, then the dynamics of the NFC East changed. But it was fun to see. :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...