My top ten favorite Redskins of all-time. Yours?

[kbso83432]

Charles Mann was dominant at times.

Left out Fletcher because I have Wilber Marshall, Ken Harvey, Coleman, and a couple of other higher in my mind when it comes to Skins LBS.

Fletcher was great though.

 

[Sportster 72]

There are a lot of good players there. I really think some of our picks had to do with our age at the time. I know my 60s and early 70s picks were when I was a kid or playing HS football. I wore Larry Brown's number in HS because I thought he was the baddest SOB in the valley. He came into the pizza store I worked at and I couldn't talk. LOL

Marshall and Harvey were top LBers. I considered Moss, not Cole's because he was only here for a very short time and he whined until he got out. I didn't pick Monk and that is almost sacrilegious. LOL

I was thinking about some of the DBs we had back in the day who I thought were really good Brig Owens, Mike Bass, Joe Lavender .....

 

[kbso83432]

Wore 84 in HS because of Clark. Lol. All the other skill position players wanted single digit numbers. I grabbed 84 with a quickness.

 

[skinsdad62]

Bass and Fischer might have been our best combo ever

Ken Houston needs a shout out as does Charlie Harraway

 

[Sportster 72]

Gary Clark was just a little bad ass. One of my most favorite ever.

I gave a shot to Ken Houston. What a great safety. Remember him pulling down Garrison on the two yard line to end the game?

 

[skinz2winz]

There are a lot of good players there. I really think some of our picks had to do with our age at the time. I know my 60s and early 70s picks were when I was a kid or playing HS football. I wore Larry Brown's number in HS because I thought he was the baddest SOB in the valley. He came into the pizza store I worked at and I couldn't talk. LOL

Marshall and Harvey were top LBers. I considered Moss, not Cole's because he was only here for a very short time and he whined until he got out. I didn't pick Monk and that is almost sacrilegious. LOL

I was thinking about some of the DBs we had back in the day who I thought were really good Brig Owens, Mike Bass, Joe Lavender .....

Hey, don't forget Mark Murphy! Loved that hard nosed true grit FS play.... In '78 my older brother won a signed Redskins football by answering Redskin history questions from Murphy during his SYA football banquet. Some of the signed names on that football we used everyday before the names were no longer visible:
-Coy Bacon
-Dave Butz
-Fred Dean
-Chris Hanburger
-Terry Hermeling
-Harold McClinton
-Mark Murphy
-Diron Talbert
-Mike Thomas
-George Stark
-Joe Theismann

 

[kbso83432]

Gary Clark was just a little bad ass. One of my most favorite ever.

I gave a shot to Ken Houston. What a great safety. Remember him pulling down Garrison on the two yard line to end the game?

The 360 spin after he scored, the bomb in NY in 91 to FINALLY beat the Giants, the over the shoulder grab in the NFC Championship game vs. Detroit in 91, yeah.....I could go on about my all-time favorite Redskin. Lol

 

[kbso83432]

Mark Mosely should have been on my honorable mention list.

 

[kbso83432]

Hey, don't forget Mark Murphy! Loved that hard nosed true grit FS play.... In '78 my older brother won a signed Redskins football by answering Redskin history questions from Murphy during his SYA football banquet. Some of the signed names on that football we used everyday before the names were no longer visible:
-Coy Bacon
-Dave Butz
-Fred Dean
-Chris Hanburger
-Terry Hermeling
-Harold McClinton
-Mark Murphy
-Diron Talbert
-Mike Thomas
-George Stark
-Joe Theismann

I liked Murphy, but for some odd reason I always liked Curtis Jordan better. IDK why.

 

[Sportster 72]

Hey, don't forget Mark Murphy! Loved that hard nosed true grit FS play.... In '78 my older brother won a signed Redskins football by answering Redskin history questions from Murphy during his SYA football banquet. Some of the signed names on that football we used everyday before the names were no longer visible:
-Coy Bacon
-Dave Butz
-Fred Dean
-Chris Hanburger
-Terry Hermeling
-Harold McClinton
-Mark Murphy
-Diron Talbert
-Mike Thomas
-George Stark
-Joe Theismann

Ha! I thought of Murphy when I was working on my list. I too liked him a lot and was so happy for him when he did so well in Green Bay after his playing days were over. Just one of the many people that ended up doing well some where else. But good for them because they would have been hamstrung here under Snyder. He was a very solid FS that gave Ritchie what he wanted on a very good defense.

 

[kbso83432]

Murphy got that pick at the goal line in XVII.

 

[skinsdad62]

Ok fuck let’s make it a top 25 list

 

[Skin'EmAll]

Redskins got too many greats,

 

[Breed]

Any list that doesn't start with Joe Gibbs ( won 3 SBs with 3 different QBs. That might never happen again) and Darrell Green (for 17 seasons he started every game he ever played in except 2) is just wrong. Monte Coleman was, at least to me, the epitome of what the Redskins were really all about. The Skins had star players, but at their core they were a blue collar team that did what was asked of them. The Hogs, yeah that covers a lotta players, but it is what it is. You can't tell the history of the glory years of the Skins w/o the Hogs. Its just that simple. John Riggins, he marched to the beat of his own drum. Daryl Grant. My most fond memory of the Skins is watching Grant seal that playoff win against the Cowboys with his pick 6 and seeing Skins fans rock RFK back n forth, back n forth. Pat Fischer and Larry Brown, both were key Redskins when I first became a fan. Ryan Kerrigan and London Fletcher. They both consistently produced as Redskins well above the Skins teams they that played for and never really got the credit they deserved. I wish RK well except when the Eagles play the Skins.

 

[kbso83432]

Any list that doesn't start with Joe Gibbs ( won 3 SBs with 3 different QBs. That might never happen again) and Darrell Green (for 17 seasons he started every game he ever played in except 2) is just wrong. Monte Coleman was, at least to me, the epitome of what the Redskins were really all about. The Skins had star players, but at their core they were a blue collar team that did what was asked of them. The Hogs, yeah that covers a lotta players, but it is what it is. You can't tell the history of the glory years of the Skins w/o the Hogs. Its just that simple. John Riggins, he marched to the beat of his own drum. Daryl Grant. My most fond memory of the Skins is watching Grant seal that playoff win against the Cowboys with his pick 6 and seeing Skins fans rock RFK back n forth, back n forth. Pat Fischer and Larry Brown, both were key Redskins when I first became a fan. Ryan Kerrigan and London Fletcher. They both consistently produced as Redskins well above the Skins teams they that played for and never really got the credit they deserved. I wish RK well except when the Eagles play the Skins.

I should have said players. That was the thought in my head when I made the thread. Certainly no disrespect toward Gibbs.

 

[Sportster 72]

Who doesn't love Joe Gibbs, a proven winner with the Redskins and in NASCAR. A guy that never gets the credit due him was Richie Petitbon.

 

[kbso83432]

Great staff. Bugel, Taylor, Sevier.......

 

[Breed]

I should have said players. That was the thought in my head when I made the thread. Certainly no disrespect toward Gibbs.

No worries, homey, and it wouldn't have made a difference to me. I can't think of any person and great relating to the Skins w/o thinking about Joe Gibbs. And keeping it foe real tho Bobby Beathard deserves being mentioned as well.