Blast from Redskin past: My lost scrapbook surfaces

[pgitta]

Here are a few original newspaper clips from '87 after Theisman went down. I accidentally came across an old scrapbook I never finished and found them.

If they are of any interest to anyone, here they are:

[Dan T.]

Cool blast from the past. Thanks for posting pgitta. Gruesome quote from LT in the first article. Good article on Shroeder too.

[Chris0894]

great read....thanks for posting

[Pessimist]

LT should have been ejected, fined, and suspended for that play.

[FuriousD]

The one thing I remember about that game above anything else was once I realized what had happened, no matter how many times they showed the replay (and it was a ton of times) I just couldn't watch. I truely felt sick to my stomach! Even those diagrams from the clipping make me wince,...

:helmet:

[pgitta]

LT should have been ejected, fined, and suspended for that play.

Nah...it wasn't dirty. There was a whole pile there, and he was just going for a sack.

LT was the first one frantically waving both hands to the Redskin's bench to get the medical staff out onto the field, and all the while JT was down, (and it seemed like forever) he was pacing up and down the sideline like a caged animal obviously distraught.

And he was a non-factor the rest of the game.

I hold no ill will toward him at all.

[Enter Apotheosis]

LT should have been ejected, fined, and suspended for that play.

This is one of those cases where age makes a huge difference. No way LT should get blamed for what was essentially a freak injury... players fall on each others legs all the time and you normally don't see that kind of a break.

[DButz65]

I was acually in arlington hospital the day Joey T went in for his first surgery, (i grew up in arlington) saw him get wheeled by me as i layed on my bed in the hall waiting to get a cist removed from my neck (outpatient procedure) i said tough break joe as he went by, then said to myself "doh you stupid ***** , sthu" :laugh:

[Blondie]

Great stuff.

How many of us can remember that exact moment.

Where we were sitting.......who was with us.....and then the sick feeling in the pit of our stomachs when we realized this leg was broken.

To this day, it makes me shiver.

[Teller]

And thus ended the career of my first-ever favorite player.

[Toe Jam]

Great stuff.

How many of us can remember that exact moment.

Where we were sitting.......who was with us.....and then the sick feeling in the pit of our stomachs when we realized this leg was broken.

To this day, it makes me shiver.

I hadn't even been thought of yet.

[Gerald362]

No way he should have penalized. It was a freak play, and LT was the first to call for help on the field. I remember that play, and the play of LT after that incident, he was not the same. There were tears in his eyes after that happened, and he looked lost. If I wasnt a Skins fan, I would have almost felt sorry for him, watching his face.

LT should have been ejected, fined, and suspended for that play.

[scruffylookin]

Thanks for sharing.

I remember watching the replay only once and that was the very first time they showed it after the injury happened. When I saw his leg bend in a location that it was never meant to bend, that was it for me. I have never watched that replay again to this day.

Even though Joe was having a terrible year that season, he was really the only Redskins QB I had ever known. He was the Redskins as far as I was concerned and it was a shock to see him gone just like that. "Wait a minute, are you telling me that there will be somebody else quarterbacking the Washington Redskins? How is that possible?" That reflects the way I was thinking when the magnitude of Theismann's injury started to sink in.

All that said, after Jay Schroeder came in and had a great night and led us to a big win against the Giants, I must admit I did focus more on how good this guy might end up being for us more so than worry about whether or not Joe could come back and play.

We fans can be such whores sometimes.

[ArmchairRedskin]

I remember they kept showing that replay over and over. Must have been over 20 replays of it. I could only watch it once. I think I was like 14. It was gruesome to see. Schroeder was great in relief, though and he went on to be my favorite player until he got traded. He led a lot of comebacks it seemed like to me. And I remember seeing a lot of long bombs to Clark and Monk. My memory could be skewed, but that's how I got it stored.

[redskinsbandnerd]

That made me really sad.

Good post, though.

[docsandy]

Nah...it wasn't dirty. There was a whole pile there, and he was just going for a sack.

LT was the first one frantically waving both hands to the Redskin's bench to get the medical staff out onto the field, and all the while JT was down, (and it seemed like forever) he was pacing up and down the sideline like a caged animal obviously distraught.

And he was a non-factor the rest of the game.

I hold no ill will toward him at all.

Totally agree. I was sitting right up from where it happened, about 20 rows up.. LT was obviously distraught.. and it wasn't a dirty hit. An unfortunate, freak hit that caused a career-ending injury, but not a dirty one.

Actually I gained some respect for LT that day with his response to the whole thing.. he was the first screaming at the Redskins sidelines to get someone on the field.

[SeattleSkinsFan]

I was acually in arlington hospital the day Joey T went in for his first surgery, (i grew up in arlington) saw him get wheeled by me as i layed on my bed in the hall waiting to get a cist removed from my neck (outpatient procedure) i said tough break joe as he went by, then said to myself "doh you stupid ***** , sthu" :laugh:

Ha ha! Why is it that the smart things that we say, we usually forget, but the stupid things we remember forever?

That game was in November of '85, which would have put me in the sixth grade, and I remember that I had to go to bed at halftime. I lived in Southwest Florida, and there was a hurricane that had come up into the Gulf. When I woke up the next morning, it was on my own, as opposed to my dad getting me up, and I looked at the clock and it was about 8:00. My dad taught school, so since it was this late, I knew that school had been cancelled that day.

I figured that it was either because the hurricane was still close, or because the Redskins had somehow come back and won, and it had been declared a national holiday.

Turns out it was the hurricane. Though I was pleasantly surprised to learn that we'd won.

[MWCREDSKINS]

No LT should not have been ejected. It's football and LT didn't do that on purpose. They way he hopped up and called for help you can tell LT had no intention

[HogLife4Ever]

Hard to believe its been 22 years. I still remember it like it was yesterday.

[Blondie]

Ha ha! Why is it that the smart things that we say, we usually forget, but the stupid things we remember forever?

Cause many times those stupid things come back and bite us in the butt..........

or

Because we spend a life time trying to replay the situation so we can give a different answer.

:laugh: :laugh:

[Gart Monk]

Today's newspaper graphics are much better.

[SeattleSkinsFan]

Today's newspaper graphics are much better.

Seriously! How was that diagram from USA Today, yet entirely devoid of color?

Guess they blew their color budget that day on a pie chart about the rising cost of movie popcorn.

[pgitta]

Seriously! How was that diagram from USA Today, yet entirely devoid of color?

Guess they blew their color budget that day on a pie chart about the rising cost of movie popcorn.

When USA Today was young, they had only very limited color. It was not like it is today.

They saved the color for frontpage items, and it's utilization increased over the years. ( I suppose as new technology made it cheaper and easier)