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Flashback Friday: The 1986 Washington Redskins
Published: May 8, 2009
The hard part is getting knocked down and then winning it all again.
In 1986, Joe Gibbs and the Redskins showed that they could get back to the top. No, they didn’t win the Super Bowl; they had a Giant obstacle in their way. But they set the table for their Super Bowl XXII championship the following season. And that’s why the 1986 squad is one of my favorite Redskins teams.
After winning it all in 1982, the Redskins started a slow roll downhill. They lost the Super Bowl the next year, lost in the first round of the playoffs in ’84 and missed the postseason in 1985.
The Redskins went into 1986 without two of the mainstays of their Super Bowl teams. John Riggins was released in March and Joe Theismann, unable to recover from the horrific broken leg he suffered the previous season against the Giants, flunked his physical.
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