Tuesday, December 2: Dr. Z’s Redskins Love

According to Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback column yesterday, Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman, arguably the dean of SI’s football writers, suffered two strokes last week and is recovering in the hospital. Zimmerman has been writing about football for what seems like forever, long enough that when King picks out “four passages from not so long [...]

Art and Darrell Get Their Rings

Pictured above are Darrell Green and Art Monk, two new enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame — two very cold new enshrinees. They are standing behind their Hall of Fame busts and in front of enough balloons to fill eight bar mitzvahs, getting ready to receive a pair of rings that represent the [...]

New Jewelry for Darrell Green and Art Monk

In addition to a football game that is apparently somewhat important, Sunday night will also see Darrell Green and Art Monk, the most recent Hall of Fame Redskins, receive their Hall of Fame rings during a pre-game ceremony. If you’re attending the game, be sure to get to your seats early for the ceremony. Also, [...]

Friday, September 19: Hall of Fame Wall Update

The pictures of Art Monk and Darrell Green arrived for the Hall of Fame wall, replacing temporary (and unofficial) inductee Ethan Albright. If these pictures had been put up in real time as players were inducted, the wall wouldn’t have changed since George Allen’s induction in 2002. Which means that if some Redskins blog had [...]

Darrell Green: Greatest Redskin Ever (According to 14,101 People)

The results are in on ESPN SportsNation’s “Franchise Players” poll, which purports to determine the “best of all time for every NFL team.” The winner for the Redskins is Darrell Green, although not by a particularly overwhelming majority: of 47,481 votes cast, Darrell has 29.7% of them, the lowest percentage of any team’s winner. By [...]

Making Monk’s Case: Talking to David Elfin

You may have heard that Art Monk was enshrined in the Hall of Fame this weekend, and that he had something of a long wait to get there. It’s been frustrating for Monk’s many fans, but very few people could do anything about it. David Elfin could. For the last two years, as the Washington [...]

Taping Hall of Famers: Bubba Tyer on Green and Monk

Director of sports medicine Bubba Tyer is a Redskins institution. This is his 37th season with the team, so he seemed like a good person to go to for some reflections on Darrell Green and Art Monk. His office was being vacuumed when I got there, so our conversation started in the hall in front [...]

Local Redskins on the New Hall of Famers

There’s a few guys on the current roster who list D.C. or one of its suburbs as their hometown. After practice today, I tried to track them down and see what they remembered about the guys who are being inducted. (There are two interesting conclusions you might draw from their memories. One is that one [...]

Wednesday, July 30: Some Excerpts from an Art Monk Conference Call

The NFL held a conference call with Art Monk yesterday. I didn’t manage to get a question in, but here are a few of the more notable Qs and As from what may be the longest conversation I have ever seen with the notoriously quiet soon-to-be-Hall-of-Famer. Q. Is it a special meaning to have waited [...]