A Coincidental Tribute To Sammy Baugh

At last night’s San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, TCU defeated Boise State by a final score of 17-16. One of TCU’s most famous football alumni passed away a week ago, Redskins great Sammy Baugh. (You may remember this being mentioned here a few times.) When Baugh was with the Redskins, his jersey number [...]

Redskins v. Eagles – Sammy Baugh Sticker

The Redskins are wearing burgundy jerseys and white pants. Santana Moss, Clinton Portis, and Shawn Springs as usual, are wearing shoes with yellow trim. Devin Thomas is wearing yellow compression sleeves. And everyone is wearing a black 33 sticker on their helmets in memory of Sammy Baugh.

Yes, There Will Be A Sammy Baugh Tribute Sunday

I haven’t yet been able to find out the specifics, but there will definitely be some sort of tribute to the late Sammy Baugh at this week’s game. I had hoped to have more details before posting about this, but the number of emails became overwhelming enough that this was the quickest way to answer [...]

Remembering Sammy Baugh

The flags were at half-staff outside Redskins Park today, to commemorate the passing of Sammy Baugh, which got me poking around to see what other Baugh memorabilia I could find. Some of it was obvious — the Hall of Fame picture that I posted earlier, for example, or the picture of the 1937 championship team [...]

Thursday, December 18: More on Sammy Baugh

Sammy Baugh, who passed away yesterday at the age of 94, was arguably the greatest Redskin of all time. For obvious reasons, though (i.e., his playing career ended more than fifty years ago), many of us never got to see the man play, and can’t fully appreciate just how remarkable he was. Tarhog and TK-IV [...]

Sammy Baugh, 1914-2008

Redskins Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh passed away Wednesday in a hospital in Texas at the age of 94, the last surviving member of the first class of players inaugurated into the Hall. His 33 jersey is the only one the team has officially retired. In a statement, team owner Daniel M. Snyder said, “Sammy [...]

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 [...]