Photo Contest: First Place WINNER

The runaway winner, with eleven first place votes, is Donald Robinson’s shot of LaRon Landry frozen in midair. One of those first place votes came from Santana Moss. “Oh, that’s cool,” Moss said. “Did he catch that thing?” Good question, and I didn’t know. So I asked LaRon. This picture of you won the fan [...]

Photo Contest: Second Place

Photographer Mike Rudy calls this photo “TheWord,” a reference to his own designation of Coach Zorn as RedskinsPope, which is what spawned this entire contest. This image was a favorite of Redskins staffers who saw it on my desk — “That’s a really good photo,” said Casey Husband, editorial director of publications — and pulled [...]

Photo Contest: Third Place

“Ohhhhh! Looks like you were in a pie eating contest,” says Randy Thomas. Thomas was one of the guys who got Chris Samuels the birthday cake, and also one of the guys who smashed it into his face. “At some point, when you’re not looking, I’m going to get you for this,” Samuels says. “You [...]

Photo Contest: Fourth Place

Andrew Markowitz’s shot of rookie WR Horace Gant going up for the ball earned only one first place vote … from Horace Gant. You just voting for that because it’s you? “No!” Gant said indignantly, “It’s a great action shot!” Enough other voters agreed that this image comes in fourth place.

Photo Contest: Fifth Place

“It’s a good picture,” said James Thrash, “but I like the one of me running better.” The rest of the voters didn’t agree, and Jon Biegler’s photo earned enough votes to finish in fifth place.

Photo Contest Runners-Up

Well, the voting for the RedskinsPope photo contest is done. A panel of more than ten players reviewed and rated the pictures, and the top five photos (including our prize winner) will be revealed tomorrow. The runners-up are after the jump, in no particular order. And thanks to everyone who entered.

Tuesday, July 29: Announcing the RedskinsPope 66 Photo Contest

Redskins fan Mike Rudy sent in an email suggesting a training camp photo competition, in which readers could send in their photos of players from camp and the players would vote for the best of them, as a way of wrapping up the open-to-the-fans section of camp. Ordinarily, I’d have dismissed this as a fairly [...]