Redskins stories

gibbsisgod · #1 03-25-2006, 11:22 PM

anybody got any good stories of games they went to or watching with friends?

Meatsnack · #2 03-25-2006, 11:49 PM

The '87 Superbowl, I went to my Mom's to bring back a big TV to my dorm room (yes, I have a very understanding mother). I borrowed a friends rock climbing gear and bought a signal splitter, an amp and a hundred feet of good, black coax cable from Radio Shack. Climbed up the outside of the dorm to tap into the satellite dish signal that was piped to the TV lounge (this was the days of analog satellite so it wasn't really piracy, just really stupid).

The game comes on just as I am climbing back in through the window. We Have Picture! The football gods are smiling! Then BOOM! First Denver play from scrimmage, we are down a touch. I am going ballistic, shouting imprecations on Ol' Horseteeth's ancestry, yada yada. Then we give them the ball right back and it looks like its going to be 14 to nothing and the game is over before it starts. By a miracle, the defense holds them to 3 and we're down 10 to zip after about 2 minutes of play. Not Good.

My best friend puts his arm around my shoulders and says, "It's OK man, Gibbs has pulled out games worse than this before. Keep the faith." Well, needless to say, his reputation as a football Notradamus began that day and the Second Quarter That Has No Equal made us all the happiest bunch of nacho-munching, beer-swilling, satellite-pirating college kids in eastern VA.

A day that will live in my memory as long as I do. I am still keeping the faith. Hail!

Axegrinder · #3 03-25-2006, 11:54 PM

I'll have to give Meatsnack a

for that story.
Thanks for sharing.

gibbsisgod · #4 03-25-2006, 11:57 PM

that rocks 35 pts in the 2nd qtr how friggin awesome was that

BandWagon · #5 03-26-2006, 12:04 AM

Meatsnack,

Damn we must be basically the same age and of equal common sense. I and a few of my hall mates participated in a similarly, um well..., exercise...To protect myself, I refer to the generic "we"....

We, using an angled screw driver were able to remove lock assembly from the basement access door in our dorm. Didn't pick the lock, mind you, just removed the bolts that attached it to the door. We then snuck up through the underground access tunnel until we were directly below our 4 dorm rooms and carefully routed cable...from a similar source as yours...through carefully drilled holes through our closets. Then! When everyone was gathered in the TV lounge watching Cosby....we wanted to hear the reaction...we cut the cable, spliced in the splitter and in less than 30 seconds were back online. You can imagine the screams from the lobby.....

Anway...we actually watched the Super Bowl from our on campus pizza/beer joint. Everytime we scored I ran to the pay phone to harrass my friend Brian, who hated all local teams. I was exhausted after the second quarter running back and forth.

Thanks for bringing back the memories!!

Meatsnack · #6 03-26-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by BandWagon

Meatsnack,

Damn we must be basically the same age and of equal common sense. I and a few of my hall mates participated in a similarly, um well..., exercise...To protect myself, I refer to the generic "we"....

We, using an angled screw driver were able to remove lock assembly from the basement access door in our dorm. Didn't pick the lock, mind you, just removed the bolts that attached it to the door. We then snuck up through the underground access tunnel until we were directly below our 4 dorm rooms and carefully routed cable...from a similar source as yours...through carefully drilled holes through our closets. Then! When everyone was gathered in the TV lounge watching Cosby....we wanted to hear the reaction...we cut the cable, spliced in the splitter and in less than 30 seconds were back online. You can imagine the screams from the lobby.....

Anway...we actually watched the Super Bowl from our on campus pizza/beer joint. Everytime we scored I ran to the pay phone to harrass my friend Brian, who hated all local teams. I was exhausted after the second quarter running back and forth.

Thanks for bringing back the memories!!

The things you do for love, man. The things you do for love...

I credit you with far more sense than I have, though. You didn't need someone bottom-roping you while you were splicing cable.

If I ever manage to make it out to the hR tailgate from LA, we'll have to compare stupid-things-I-did-in-college stories. I am sure the statutes of limitations are up by now...

Hail!

BandWagon · #7 03-26-2006, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Meatsnack

The things you do for love, man. The things you do for love...

I credit you with far more sense than I have, though. You didn't need someone bottom-roping you while you were splicing cable.

If I ever manage to make it out to the hR tailgate from LA, we'll have to compare stupid-things-I-did-in-college stories. I am sure the statutes of limitations are up by now...

Hail!

Yes, I have a feeling they would be surprisingly similar. And while we were ferreting things out underground...you definitely took the higher risk route. Aerial...amazing....

Red Bear · #8 03-26-2006, 02:28 PM

haha good stories.

one of the fondest redskins stories i have really isnt about a single game, but an entire season. back when i was about 12 and my dad would spend sundays around the house watching the redskins game, from the start of the season i was right there with him cheering on the redskins. i had been into football before, but this was the year i really started to learn about football, and my dad would explain to me what i didnt understand. this was the year i became a hardcore redskins fan, even tho i had liked them for years before. so i spent the whole season living in our NC home watching every redskins game with my dad. and now that my dad has been deceased since 1996 thats the one season i will always cherish, not just because the year i speak of was 1991 and we went on to crush many teams and win the superbowl, but for the time and memories i spent with my dad while watching redskins games.

#9 03-26-2006, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gibbsisgod

anybody got any good stories of games they went to or watching with friends?

Didn't we just do a thread like this???

I mean I just answered one on the "Quarter". feels like cross examination

#10 03-26-2006, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gibbsisgod

anybody got any good stories of games they went to or watching with friends?

Didn't we just do a thread like this???

I mean I just answered one on the "Quarter". feels like cross examination

1984
The Giants at Redskins game when we beat them 36-20 at RFK. We had the entire Fun Bunch, D. Green, Riggo, Joey T and Hogs, with Gibbs and Pettibone at the helm. Parcells had Simms, LT, Carl Banks, Harry Carson, Mark Bavaro, ReneThompson, and it was Redskins' trouncing of the Giants via Defense. One upped the Giants vaunted defense. We sacked Simms 5 times and got picks, including one by D. Green

I wasn't even supposed to be at the game, just came home on furlough from the Army, before heading back that Tuesday. However, the person I bought the ticket from didn't sell his neice's ticket. So naturally she was at the game. There I was, as an E4 Spec. from the Army, sitting with this surprise guest. Very fine indeed, but as we went to her car, her tires were slashed, because she wouldn't pay a tribute to proctect her car. I got to a phone (no cells back then), called for AAA and she gave me a lift home.

Little did I know she was a featured guest in EBONY Magazine as one of the 100 most eligible bachelorettes in the U. S. She was an assigned U. S. Army officer, Captain, to the veteranarian staff of then President Rondald Reagan.
It was also one the best dates I had ever been on in my life and yes I got a chance to kiss the girl.

We never knew each other's rank, because we didn't ask.

skinfan43 · #11 03-27-2006, 02:50 AM

One of my most memorable to date was last year's final regular season game vs. where we beat Philly IN Philly to secure our first playoff berth in the new millenium!! Here's my story, as told on HR in January '06:

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Let me try to explain the day from my perspective:

Smoak came to pick me up in the AM, got to The Stink at 10:45am. Lot had some Eagles fans in it already, lots were supposed to open at 11am, guess the cops let them in earlier. Met up with halter91, RSfan10, hailskins, PGiddy, openallnight, skinz4lyfe, colkurtz, and many other HR and various Skins fans in our section. (sorry if i forgot anyone, brain is still on overload, sure Smoak will help with the details!)
Well around noontime, a virtual CARAVAN of Skins fans started to stream in, car by car, by car, by car, by van, by bus, by car......it was AWESOME to hear all the horns honking and the shouts of "HTTR!!" from everyone as they passed by - just blissful! Lots of Egirls fans were getting pissed at our turnout, i just savored every little bit of their jeers and moronic cursings, living up in the Philly area has had me have to put up with WAY too much BS over the last five years, this was SO sweet! I actually felt proud and ENJOYED how pissed and demoralized their rants towards us were...HAHAHAHA!!! Just laughed in every one of their faces, and they had nothing to back up their "duh, Redskins suck" or "get off of our turf" weaka$$ed comments.
The game was great from our section, 134. Plenty of obnoxious Egirls fans, tons of Skins fans there too, ALL of them screaming and chanting and pointing at each other in acknowledgement of our Skins brother and sisterhood we all share, was SO awesome, I'll never forget the feeling of completely OWNING The Stink when the game ended and all of the thousands of Skins fans piled out onto the concourse, all of us SCREAMING the HTTR fight song, high 5-ing, hugging each other in jubilation, no matter WHO we were!!! IT WAS SUBLIME!

SO many details will be given by Smoak when he writes his take in this thread, but to close, I'd just like to say to walk out of that cesspool, head held high, SO effing proud.......was just incredibly PRICELESS.

Wow, that was fun to re-live, just going to find that thread in the HR archives allowed me to check out ALL of the threads going on at that time - what utter JUBILATION!!

(I'm proud to have this PARTICULAR post be a celebration of that memorable day with my HR friends

- thank you to all of you for making my first year here on HR utterly AMAZING!)