Yeah Spurrier was at least entertaining. Best season ending press conference ever: Ok, we wound up 5-11! Not very good! But there was some worse ‘un us. I guess that’s one positive way to look at it, we weren’t the worst team in the league. But it wadn’t very good.
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Every time I see Spurrier's likeness the name OSAKA just reverberates through my brain.One of the low points for me was watching Jeff George getting dragged around the field by Dallas after a sack while the entire OL stood around doing nothing. Can you imagine the Hogs letting that happen to any QB they protected?
Another one would be seeing Dan Snyder dancing at a bowling alley with RGIII. So cringe inducing on every single level. That Snyder thought he was cool? That RGIII though he was cool? That RGIII was above the rest of the team? It was at that moment that I realized neither of them cared about anything important.
This was another one for me:
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I highly recommend Spurrier’s Gridiron Grille in Gainesville FL if you’re ever passing through. I’ve been there twice on the way up I-75 from Tampa and it’s excellent!
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Never heard of the bowling thing until now.One of the low points for me was watching Jeff George getting dragged around the field by Dallas after a sack while the entire OL stood around doing nothing. Can you imagine the Hogs letting that happen to any QB they protected?
Another one would be seeing Dan Snyder dancing at a bowling alley with RGIII. So cringe inducing on every single level. That Snyder thought he was cool? That RGIII though he was cool? That RGIII was above the rest of the team? It was at that moment that I realized neither of them cared about anything important.
This was another one for me:
If this is the incident you're talking about, yep pretty cringey.
Never heard of the bowling thing until now.
If this is the incident you're talking about, yep pretty cringey.
It’s pathetic. I honestly felt really sorry for him when I first witnessed that (lo those many years ago), and then I remembered what a douche he is, and laughed my ass off at him.
Clown. That’s all there is to it.
Not a banner week for former Cornerbacks who were drafted by the Redskins and also played for the Vikings.
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It took me a minute to figure out what neglecting support was. I guess he doesn’t like playing child support. Didn’t know you could go to jail for that.
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Man I needed this reminder I totally forgot. Lot of late meetings today for a Friday.
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JP Finley is in full fanboy mode on Twitter tonight. He must be angling for Julie Donaldsons old job.
They just teased 'a gap in the clouds players will come out' but looking at the radar year it looks messy into the 9 o'clock hour.
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It takes a whole lot of willfully ignoring the courts and/or just being astronomically stupid to get arrested. But yes, it's possible.
A quick skim through the Loudon County court records shows 5 different cases in the last 5 years in which he was a plaintiff over failing to pay a debt of some sort. (And he has actually lived in Maryland, so who knows what those records include.)
Editing to add: The specific phrase "Failure to comply with support obligation" constitutes Violation of a court order which seems to be punishable by imposition of a sentence up to 12 months for contempt of court.
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The Gibbs era was more of an all-encompassing thing than a series of memorable moments. We were just really good for a really long time. Two of the "most memorable plays" mentioned here were huge runs our D gave up on drives that probably ended up with TDs for the other team. Great Darrell Green moments, but not exactly our best overall.
There were caveats, too. Two of our titles came in controversial strike seasons IIRC, we were one of the big-spending teams during that pre-cap time, there were some big losses, big injuries, and failed experiments. Not being able to get our hands on a true #1 QB during that era probably cost us a couple titles, but that was a byproduct of success, I guess (not drafting high and being before the free agency boom).
None of that tarnishes it for me though. I loved the Redskins.
They really need to do more to help these guys manage their money. The league and players association should get together and set up mandatory programs. It's insane that this guy is less than 2 years removed from a $12 million career and is already up to this kind of shit. And I don't wanna hear the "But after taxes and agent fees it's really only X million" bullshit.
Someone should be in these guys' faces in an official capacity saying, "By NFL standards you are an unremarkable DB. Your career will not last forever and you will not make big money. You need to save every dollar you can," while showing them the statistics about how 80% of them end up broke a short time after their careers end.
This shit is tragic and happens way way way too often.
I was 8 when they won their first one. I remember how pervasive it was in the community. EVERYONE was up for that game. It was everywhere. In our elementary school class they did this huge thing on the big bulletin board where everyone go to "be" one of the players and had to pick a number from a hat. I got 77, so I was gonna be Daryl Grant who'd just come up huge in the NFC title game. I was jazzed.
Then I found out I was a f***ing Dolphin. A.J. motherf***in Duhe. Heartbroken, I tell ya. Goddamn loser could have iced the game for the Dolphins but Theismann knocked the ball away from him. (Duhe was actually pretty great.)
That guy never got enough praise. So mild-mannered. If he'd been a shit-talker like Deion the whole world would remember him (same for Art Monk being similarly soft-spoken).
There was a thing on NFL network a few years back where they had a handful of HoF DBs having a roundtable discussion. Deion and Darrell were both there, but Darrell barely said anything. Deion couldn't shut up. Someone brought up being "The NFL's Fastest Man" and Deion went on and on about how much faster he was than Darrell, and Darrell was really good-natured about it but finally said, "Hey, you wanna go outside and race right now?"
Deion didn't want any part of that "Darrell runs a 4.4 40 at 50 years old" stuff. BIg laughs all around.
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