Dirtbag 28 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 My grandfather was a HUGE Skins fan, he influenced my mom and dad and ever since then Ive been a mad/insane fan. The last game at RFK, I stormed the field and got a huge piece of turf and put it in a glass case, the rest of the dirt I spread on my Grandfathers grave. THANK YOU GRANDADDY!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchwood Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I have always said that Being a redskins fan was beaten into my head since I was a baby. Let me explain: When I was an toddler, My father (redskins fan) and my uncle (cowboys fan) were watching a game where the skins and the cowboys were playing each other. A certian young cornerback decided to make a name for himself when he chased down Tony Dorsett from behind. My dad, who was holding me, jumped up in sheer exctasy, and spiked me on the edge of the coffee table. My head split open, blood gushed, the ambulance was called, my mom fainted, the paramedics took me and my mom to the hospital. My dad and my uncle stayed home to finish out that Monday night football game before coming to the hospital. Still have the scar on my forehead to this day. A scar of my undying passion for the team that my dad loved so much that he forgot that I was not a football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCNightHawk Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 because i was born in DC ditto for me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllBusiness Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 My Dad. BTW, King Gibbs, I could watch her do that ALL DAY LONG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk4theHall81 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I was born a Skins fan. My whole family loves em. So naturally I had to. I remember my first favorite player was Gary Clark, still one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouvan59 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I'm an Air Force brat and we lived in St. Petersburg, FL when I started to get interested in sports in the mid-60s. My Mom went to Duke with Sonny Jurgensen (they played in a regular bridge game together) and both my Mom and Dad were Skins fans because of him. We were transferred to the DC area in 1971 and the rest is history. Pat Fischer is my favorite Skin with Charlie Harraway a close 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidenreich Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Here's my story, from Giants country. My dad isn't a big football fan (He's coming around now, mostly with my help). So there wasn't anybody pushing me in any direction. I had watched a couple of super bowls (I remember XIX slightly, I won money off my mom in XX. Why she thought the Pats would win I have no idea.) Back on the subject. I started really watching & paying attention the following year. I would play in my Dad's office pool & actually won a couple of times, so that's the origin of fooball = money for me. Fast forward to Super Bowl XXI. My dad had 0/0 in his office box pool. The Giants score late in the fourth quarter to make it 39 to 20. My brother & I are going crazy, once the point after is good, pops has a grand & we're getting some money too! Then my dad says "He's gotta hit that extra point." I laughed it off, & of course, Raul Allegre shanked it. I despise him to this day. So, to cement my hatred of the Giants, I had to root for a division rival. Arizona (actually, they were St. Louis at the time) & Philly were out immeadiately. So it was down to the Cowboys & the Skins. I did my research, Washington was better, having reached the NFC Championship game that season, so the Skins won out. I thank god every day for that, as well. The next year, the Super Bowl was a little better........ I'm the only skins fan in the family, although I'm working on my cousin. (She's 20 months old). I already taught her how to say Cowboys Stink & Giants Stink. I have to get her to watch a Skins game, if Xmas Day was any indication, she's a Packer fan right now....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28rdsknsfn28 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Wow some of these are great. I love the one about playing HTTR over the fence on a trumpet and the head would. I feel cheated because my only reason is that I was born in DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
44RedskinsFan Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 My Whole Family is skins fans so i was kinda just bought up by it..and now i love em' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21KO Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Straight from the gene pool. My Dad's a Skins fan (as if you couldn't tell from my sig) from way back. He's got a game - I think it's the 72 NFC Championship - Skins 26, Cowgirls 3 - recorded on 8 track. That's right. 8 track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I became a Skins fan because my father would have it no other way! Growing up in DC also helped.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clevelanskins28 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 My Mom's whole family are die hard skins fans, so when the browns left town for five years, I had to like someone. Not to mention spending about a month in DC every year, and another month vacationing in Delaware, which is 99% skins fans anyways. It was inevitable, i was raised a skins fan and will die a skins fan as well.HAIL VICTORY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonnyRules Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Born in D.C.; my Dad took me to my 1st game. It's been a done deal ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJredskins00 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 i was born.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsngibbs4life Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 lets see... -born and raised in DC area -son of a diehard redskins fan that about does it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Being from northern New Jersey I was and still am surrounded by Jets and Giants fans, but when I was little my cousin, who was dating a Skins fan at the time, always took me to watch games with them and root on the Skins. I have been a fan ever since. The sad thing is she went on and married an Eagles fan, but she still bleeds B&G. He will get hell this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HailYeah Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 1988 superbowl was a big step for me. My parents had just moved us to NoVa after my dad was transferred from Germany. They didnt really understand the whole Redskins-hysteria yet. We went to a Superbowl party at a neighbors house and I can remember that as clear as day. We whipped them and I have been a fan ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticVillain Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I been a fan since birth, but I did not become serious until 99 when I was bout 9 years old. The game when we was beating Dallas in the season opener, I think it was 42-21, and they came back and damn Rocket Ismail smoked somebody in they won in OT. I cried and when I did that I knew it was serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 My Dad had been a Skins fan since the days of Sammy Baugh and saw several games in old Griffith Stadium and then in D.C. Stadium where you could buy tickets at the stadium. All that changed in 1965 when my Mom got my Dad season tickets for his 50th birthday. He used to bring the game programs home and I used to look at them and read them. Those game programs got me hooked. We also used to listen to the games on the radio on WMAL back before every game was televised. Steve Gilmartin did the play-by-play and Len Hathaway and Mal Campbell provided color and stats. My Dad took me to see my first game in 1967 against the 49ers when Otto Graham was the coach. That did it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehardskinsfan Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I've been a Skins fan since the early 70's. Went through a lot of tough years before Joe showed up on his white horse. My grandfather who passed in 97' took me to my first game in 76'. My father has always been a Skins fan, so the torch was passed to me. I bare the scars emotionally from that Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas when Longley came in & led that horendous comeback by Dallas. I've always despised the Boys and cherrish everytime that we can pound them into submission. Hail!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9_to_42_td Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Born and raised in the dc burbs. Didn't know any other way. Those were some rough years back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiGsPoRTiS Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I'm a lifetime Skins fan.... I've lived near DC my whole life and have been a loyal die-hard Redskin fan year after year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johaun Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 First game ever saw was DEN/WAS superbowl, my dad hated the broncos and John Wrongway so had to cheer for the redskins. Have been in love with them ever since. Long for the day to actually get to go to FEDEX and watch a game with 90,000 of my closest friends. I think this weekend they might actually hear me in PHL all the way from North Dakota. Go Skins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I grew up in Alexandria and my dad was a skins fan. Nothing I could, or would want, to do about I was stuck. Moved to the southwest in 79 and living in cryboy country has made it even more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IM A REDSKIN FAN Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Two Words... Darrell Green. :helmet: :logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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