fuji869 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Here is another blast from the past Redskin Photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunBunch7 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimster Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 ole' Joe's got some pork chops going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuji869 Posted July 31, 2006 Author Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? It aint George Allen so I am assuming that it is who ever the GM was at the time. :whoknows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shsu1 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? Is it Jack Pardee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimster Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Is it Jack Pardee? No - Pardee just retired as a player the year before. - He would have been much younger at that time - 1974 - which was also the year JKC bought the team. The person in the picture must have been the GM or President at the time. It's not Edward Bennet Williams either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? Chris Berman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tastes Like Chicken Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Homer Simpson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba9497 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 it looks like Gene Anderson now how many people know who I am talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsGuy Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 it looks like Gene Andersonnow how many people know who I am talking about? I believe you mean the pro wrestler who, with his brother Ole and Arn, wreaked havoc in the NWA for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba9497 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I believe you mean the pro wrestler who, with his brother Ole and Arn, wreaked havoc in the NWA for a while. :laugh: dang right off the bat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HapHaszard Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 it looks like Gene Andersonnow how many people know who I am talking about? Way before my time Bubba :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskinsfan79 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 :laugh: dang right off the batmen in tights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xavmit Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I think it may be John Bassett, Sr. I think this is an introduction for the Toronto Argonauts and not the Redskins. The following text appears next to the above photo if you do a search on the photo's origins. excerpt from "THEISMANN" by Joe Theismann with Dave Kindred, 1987 Contemporary publishing: - In any case my visions of the Heisman Trophy making me rich as a first round pick in the NFL were gone like air out of a football. I was left to choose between going to the NFL as a fourth-rounder, or accepting an offer from the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Before the NFL draft the Argonauts offered me $50,000 to sign and $50,000 a year for three seasons. Miami first offer was $17,000 a year. I about died. Then Joe Robbie got into the negotiations. Mr. Robbie asked "What do you want?". "Thirty-five, 45, and 55, and a $35,000 signing bonus broken down over 3 years." Mr.Robbie said "Fine." I went on Miami television to sat "Come hell or high water, I'll be a Miami Dolphin." What I didn't count on, though, was a rider to the contract written up by Mr.Robbie. The rider said I had to repay all of the signing bonus if I ever failed to make the 40-man roster, even in the second or third year of the contract. That wasn't part of any deal I'd agreed to. We argued for weeks, until the Dolphins finally relented, saying, "OK the bonus in unrelated to your making the team and you don't have to pay it back." But by then i was so disillusioned with the Dolphins and the negotiating process that I had asked the Argonauts if their offer still stood. The money wasn't much more than Miami's offer, but yes, it still stood and it hadn't changed. Toronto dealt straight with me and I felt Miami didn't. So I flew to Toronto and, probably to keep me from changing my mind again, Toronto owner, John Bassett, Sr., wouldn't let me leave without signing the contract. He said. "If you leave the offer is off the table." I signed and asked him to not announce it until I had had a chance to call Don Shula and the Dolphins. Well Mr.Bassett owned a newspaper in Toronto as well as some radio stations. He wasn't going to sit on a scoop. It was in the paper and on the air the next morning, as I learned when the phone rang. It was Ara Parseghian saying, "Joe, what have you done? Don Shula is on the line and he is mad as can be. He says you have a moral obligation to the Dolphins. What are you doing?" "The Dolphins took a hard line wouldn't budge, and I grew tired of it." At Notre Dame, you come out of the dark tunnel and you saw 60,000 faces. At Toronto, the first thing you saw was a ferris wheel because the stadium was on the Canadian National Exhibition Fairgrounds. The Canadian Football League was a classy operation, and my three years were fun. Somehow, the Toronto Argonauts were pretty good. Our coach, Leo Cahill, was and still is, the No.1 football personality in Canada, a colourful performer who was fired and rehired by the Argonauts so often his autobiography is entitled Goodbye, Leo. What a team - we had two Ph.D.s. Paul Desjardins. my center, was a biochemist, my wide receiver Mike Eben, was an expert in Germanic languages. We also had some American football players, such as Jimmy Stillwagon and Granville Liggens. We even had a running back called "X-Ray" because most of the time he was invisible. He ran so fast no one could catch him. That first year we played Calgary in the Grey Cup, the CFL's version of the Super Bowl. With four minutes to play our defensive back Dick Thornton, who'd been a quarterback at Northwestern, intercepted a pass and took it back to the six-yard line. Dicky figured he'd won the car that went to the MVP. Next play, I threw an incompletion. Second play, we ran a sweep with X-ray - and he fumbled. We lost the ball and the game. I was content with my situation; conditions were good in the CFL, and it was good enough football that a coach by the name of Bud Grant came out of there and succeeded in the NFL. The second year in Canada I broke my leg in the season opener. Running out of bounds, I pivoted on the artificial turf to take one more peek up the field. Right then somebody jumped on my back, and my foot stuck to the turf. With me sidelined for most of '72 the Argos won one game and Leo was fired. our new coach was John Rauch, who had been let go by the Oakland Raiders in '68. By then I also was in a contract dispute with the Argonauts general manager, John Barrow, who had been a Canadian All-Star lineman in his playing days. When he offered $75,000 to sign again, I said "That's not enough the NFL will pay me that. You have to give me a reason to stay here." Barrow was angry. "You're just a typical kid who got too much too soon." To which I replied "And you're just a washed up lineman who didn't get anything and is envious about it." All I wanted was out, It had been fun but I wanted Joe Namath's league. Coming so close to the Grey Cup made me hungry to win a Super Bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sknsnation Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 it looks like Gene Andersonnow how many people know who I am talking about? "The Minnisota Wrecking Crew".....RIP Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grhqofb5 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? L. Ron Hubbard? L. Ron, is that you!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamus Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 That is actually Joe's introduction to the Toronto Agronauts - the coach of the Agros is pictured with him - Leo Cahill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncskinsfan71 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 "The Minnisota Wrecking Crew".....RIP Gene Actually, that's the "Minnesota Wrecking Crew" ,cousins to the 16-time World's Heavyweight Champion. Woooooooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridironmike Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=page&id=59 An excerpt: Argonaut owner John Bassett opened his check- book for 1971 and Leo went to work improving his already strong team. He signed Detroit Lion quarterback Greg Barton and Notre Dame Star, Joe Theismann. Theismann was a high draft pick of the Miami Dolphins who were stunned when they lost him to Toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex03 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 How pissed was Don Shula after Theismann beat him in the Super Bowl?! Pretty interesting story. Did anyone ask Shula about his feelings on that after the fact? I have never heard anything about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tastes Like Chicken Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I wonder if his first leg-breaking was as gruesome as his last. Anyone ever go to his restaurant in VA? Is Tully Blanchard still alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwbiggs Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Who is that next to him? Why it looks like Steve Czaban to me. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Elvis Theismann :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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