Dark Acre Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 My best moment was getting taken off ES restriction. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFTW Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 The Eli drunk picture thread was also a pretty good time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooseneck Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Today with the wonderful "Moving Towards our Future Front Office and Coaching Hires. All the Way to the Water Boy - Adam Peters Hired as GM! " thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtisDriftwood25 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 For me probably drafting of Sean Taylor and all his plays starting from first preseason game. Then 2012 starting from RG3 pro day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinews Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 As a third generation fan, you don't choose it, it chooses you. I'll never be able to switch teams and it's why I'll argue there are different degrees of fandom, although I would stop short of saying one is superior to the other. Maybe more committed is the right designation.  The first season I made it a point to watch every game was 1999 and boy was I set up for future letdowns. I thought it was going to be like that every year. But that '99 season had so many great moments that it really cemented my dedication to the team. Off the top of my head, scoring 40+ on the Bears at FedEx, a really great time. I think it was Dan Wilkinson who intercepted a pass or returned a fumble for a touchdown, bumblin, stumblin all the way, you know how it goes. Loved watching Stephen Davis run the ball as well, although that first game of the season where he dominated (yet was a loss to Dallas in OT in excruciating fashion) was perhaps a harbinger of things to come–flashes of brilliance and great play marred by letdowns and crappy finishes.  Other than that, I was so pumped for the Gibbs revival and was banging the drum for Sean Taylor and ecstatic when we drafted him. My favorite player, no doubt. RIP and to what could have been. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petey hodge Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) Today??? Â When we beat out other teams to land the coach that WE wanted Edited February 1 by petey hodge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 10 hours ago, sinews said: Off the top of my head, scoring 40+ on the Bears at FedEx, a really great time. I think it was Dan Wilkinson who intercepted a pass or returned a fumble for a touchdown, bumblin, stumblin all the way, you know how it goes. That was my first year in the club level and during that game Norv decided at some point to call off the dogs and replaced Brad Johnson with Rodney Peete. The dude sitting next to me was legitimately very upset and throwing a fit, despite my best efforts to explain that we were trying to protect our starting QB against injury in a game we were up 30+ in. That really was a wake-up call in realizing just how stupid some people out there are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petey hodge Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 My best moment as a Washington fan in 32 years?  Not today…. Today is not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Acre Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 On 2/1/2024 at 5:14 AM, sinews said: But that '99 season had so many great moments that it really cemented my dedication to the team. Off the top of my head, scoring 40+ on the Bears at FedEx, a really great time. I think it was Dan Wilkinson who intercepted a pass or returned a fumble for a touchdown, bumblin, stumblin all the way, you know how it goes. Loved watching Stephen Davis run the ball as well, although that first game of the season where he dominated (yet was a loss to Dallas in OT in excruciating fashion) was perhaps a harbinger of things to come–flashes of brilliance and great play marred by letdowns and crappy finishes. 1999 was like 2012 - a great season that ended ignominiously. The team was fun to watch, had an offense, and we were finally thinking, Washington is back. Back like Brigadoon, the mythical Scottish village that reappears from the mist every 100 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c slag Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 September 10, 1995 , that was a loss to the Oakland Raiders, but the last time I went to a game with my dad ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Capitals Stanley cup victory. After pouring blood sweat and tears together for over a decade, they finally won the cup. The first person Ovechkin hands the cup off to is Niklas Backstrom. He's been playing through a nasty hand injury and can barely hold the cup up on his own, so we get this iconic image of the Captain helping his friend support the cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veteranskinsfan Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Gibbs winning 3 Super Bowls with 3 different starting quarterbacks. Also I attended the Super Bowl in Pasadena CA and saw Riggins run down the sidelines to beat Dolphins. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodpecker Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 For me, it’s Q2 with Doug Williams. I was in college at the time, and my buddies and I had a tradition of guzzling a beer when they scored a touchdown. Needless to say, I have very little memory of the second half of the game!  of course Riggins is the obvious answer, but I didn’t quite have enough time invested as a fan at that point to truly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearfeather Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Well, just under 32 years ago, this game, right here. December 13, 1992. My father, an old friend of his who had known me since I was born, and myself took a bus trip including tickets to the game and a ride to and from the racetrack in Laurel, the Saturday before the game. This was a nailbiter throughout, until the fumble at the 3:12 mark. We were sitting in the lower level seats, but in the opposite endzone. It took a while for people to figure out what happened, because I'm not sure everyone paid attention to or could see that Danny Copeland had the ball in his hand, running away from the pile. Was his knee down ? Was it a safety ? Was it a touchdown ? And then the signal came. The place erupted. The three of us grinning from ear to ear. Me, letting out a couple yells. There was still a few minutes left, but somehow, we knew. We had just beaten the Cowboys and we were.going to the playoffs.  It's not my greatest of all time. That still belongs to Riggins 10 years earlier, but it's way up there.    1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 11 hours ago, Spearfeather said: There was still a few minutes left, but somehow, we knew. We had just beaten the Cowboys and we were.going to the playoffs. Great memory and great game. However, we were fortunate to make the playoffs that year. After that great win against the Cowboys, we lost at Philly and then at home to a mediocre Raiders team on a Saturday to finish the season 9-7. The next day, the Vikings, having already clinched their division and with nothing to play for, beat the Packers, and that's how we got in. If the Vikings had laid down, they would've played the Packers in the wild card round, Instead, they played us, and Brian Mitchell had a monster day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearfeather Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 28 minutes ago, hail2skins said: Great memory and great game. However, we were fortunate to make the playoffs that year ...  Well, yeah we didnt clinch with that win , but it was more about the feeling and sitting at 9 -5 instead of 8 - 6 with two games left, we felt confident we would get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 54 minutes ago, Spearfeather said:  Well, yeah we didnt clinch with that win , but it was more about the feeling and sitting at 9 -5 instead of 8 - 6 with two games left, we felt confident we would get there. I remember four seasons later exiting the Vet after beating Philly and thinking at 8-3 there's no way we're not going. Ugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearfeather Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 23 minutes ago, hail2skins said: I remember four seasons later exiting the Vet after beating Philly and thinking at 8-3 there's no way we're not going. Ugh! Â And I remember thinking the opposite walking out of Fed Ex after the Buffalo game, following Sean Taylor's death. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVAskins Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyHolt Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Â --Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mexican Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Probably when we beat TB in our last playoff win (2006). Â Good game. Classic Gibbs since the Bucs had defeated us just a few week earlier in a real nail-bitter. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 16 minutes ago, El Mexican said: Probably when we beat TB in our last playoff win (2006). Â Good game. Classic Gibbs since the Bucs had defeated us just a few week earlier in a real nail-bitter. Â Â Crazy that this team hasn't won a playoff game in nearly 20.yesrs. Â The regular season game waa a shootout, while the playoff one was one of the uglier games you'll see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskinscub Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 2nd qtr in super bowl vs broncos  any win vs cowboys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavooo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Like many others It's easy to say the 91 season.  My most fond memory however was a nondescript home loss to the Titans in 2022. Lol  It was my first game watching my beloved team in DC. Growing up in Eastern NM, I couldn't just pop over for a game. There was always something a little more important going on to justify a trip across country for a game. I also refused to let my first game be in Dallas! Lol I decided it had to be a home game. Now I cheated and my first game was actually in Denver, 10/2021. It was a quick 45 min flight and I decided at 48 I had to go to my first game! After attending thst game I was hooked and started making preparations for a home game. (As an aside, we ran into Chase Young in downtown Denver after curfew. He wasn't very friendly and refused to sign anything or pose for a picture citing his curfew) lol  So my two boys and I went to DC. Of course I would have preferred a game against a NFC east team, especially the hated Cowboys but my schedule didn't jive for those games.  I was like a kid on Christmas morning. I was smiling so much I think my cheeks were sore for the next 2 days! Lol Walking up that hill in the parking lot seeing the beautiful Redskins colors everywhere I looked. I was awestruck. (I also hate the color blue btw and dont own a single garment of clothing thats blue! Lol ) Everywhere I looked I was in awe, the player banners on the light posts, the player caricatures on the stadium walls, the hoggettes were there signing autographs, it was like a dream. Because I wanted to make this day special I made sure I got the tickets I wanted. We sat in the first row directly behind the Redskins bench! We were so close to the action, it was amazing! Aside from the loss it was the most amazing experience. In addition to the game a day earlier I was standing next to the Lincoln memorial, gazing skyward up at the Washington monument! Places I wasn't sure I would ever get to visit!  So undoubtedly this trip was my most memorable moment as a Skins fan!   3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyHolt Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) Glad you got to a game. No picture outside of the Sean Taylor Porta's??? /s  My first game Vikes undefeated came to RFK in 1975 - Ron McDole blocked a FG to ice the game. I think it was snowing. One of the greatest games of all time. Edited March 13 by RandyHolt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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