Redskins @ Ravens – A Familiar Sign, For A Different Reason

They’re handing out signs at M&T Bank Stadium tonight. One side reads “Whacko 4 Flacco,” which is cute enough, I suppose. (I’m not sure what the Redskins equivalent would be. “Ramble for Campbell,” maybe?) The reverse of the signs, though, is grimly familiar to any Redskins fan even if the colors are wrong. That’s right: [...]

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, [...]

Preliminary Hall of Fame List Chock Full of Redskins

The list of preliminary nominees for the 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame was released yesterday, and the Redskins are well represented. It’s mainly by guys who have been preliminary nominees for years now, or guys who technically spent a few years here but are much more closely identified with other teams, but they’re there. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sonny Jurgensen on Rookies and the Hall

I had to leave the group of rookies and legends touring the Hall of Fame on Saturday to get into my seat for the enshrinement ceremony, which meant that I didn’t have a chance to follow up with anyone involved. Luckily, I was able to catch up with Hall of Fame QB Sonny Jurgensen today [...]

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 [...]