Where did YOUR love for the Skins Originate!?!?

redskinsranger · Post by **redskinsranger** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:13 pm

Hey Guys,

Ever since I was a wee lad I have always loved the Redskins. It's kind of strange because at my house, THEY ARE ALL 49ers fans! AHK! tell me all about the origination of your skins fan-age....IS that a word!?? hahaha

Skinsfan55 · Post by **Skinsfan55** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:45 pm

My dad was a Redskins fan, so I just became one too...

But don't let that downplay my devotion to the team... This was about 1994, when Heath "The Future of the Franchise" Shuler was drafted, so I suffered through the bad, the slightly better, the average and the bad again.

Now we have Patrick "The Next Bret Favre" Ramsey to lead us to the promised land!

Go Redskins!

Webskinner · Post by **Webskinner** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:36 pm

While enrolled at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and working in the PX on weekends. The Skins games used to be on the TV in the PX where I would watch Sonny J toss TD passes to Charlie Taylor. My idea of a relaxing Sunday afternoon in military school.

Norton

silent1903 · Post by **silent1903** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:11 pm

My father was on an exchange to work at the Walter Reed Hospital in DC back in 1980, so, being at boarding school in England, my two brothers and I got to go out there when school was out. If you live in the DC area (Bethesda MD) and know nothing about the game, you HAVE to support your local team, even if it was the downside of the Jack Pardee era, 3-10 until we won the last 3 games. Then we found out we just signed a new head coach, his first HC job, a guy from San Diego called Joe Gibbs, and went 0-5 as we went back to England. Wonder what happened to him.....

4bz · Post by **4bz** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:16 pm

Whats going on? Wow Heath Shuler, lol. Havent heard that name in years. Most of my family wasnt to into football, but my aunts boyfriend was a big time skins fan. This was back in the early 80's. Was just a kid then, but always watched the games and 20 or so years later, here I am. Nice site btw, newbie here.

Jeremy81 · Post by **Jeremy81** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:20 pm

my dad was a huge redskins fan. he was stationed in Virginia and often hung out with john riggins. Riggins would give a lot of redskins stuff for me every time i saw him (not very often). but I kept it, loved it, and loved the team. The superbowl in san diego against the broncos sealed the deal. die hard fan for life. Art monk was my idol, i took his jersey number when i played football and I've been jeremy81 since.

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:25 pm

God. I'm gonna regret posting this because I'm gonna sound like a chick. When I was 11, all of the boys were wearing those two-tone jackets. You know the ones....cloth in the middle and some kind of vinyl/pleather material for the sleeves. My mom offered to get me one...I just had to pick one.

So, at age 11, I decided to go with the best colors: burgundy and gold. Ever since then, I've watched Redskins games...and became a fan.

Yep, it's a chick answer....but it still got me started down the right path!!!!

RedskinsRule56 · Post by **RedskinsRule56** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:49 pm

I am from Maryland and I have been going to Skins game since I was 8! My dad got season tickets by luck! One of his friends did not want their season tickets anymore this was back when the Redskins were terrible so my dad took the tickets off his hand and we have had them ever since! From going to ever game every year I became a diehard Skins fan with a unhealthy hatred for the Cowboys! I miss RFK Stadium so much! I live and die Burgundy and Gold! I am so excited for this season with Joe Gibbs "The God" coming back!!! Hail to the Redskins!!

MO-HOG · Post by **MO-HOG** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:09 pm

My father was a redskin fan,We lived in DC.
I became a fan the year Sammy Baugh retired.
(1952).
I just wonder if anyone can tell me who replaced him as the starting QB?
That is a Question you can stump alot of people with.

Irn-Bru · Post by **Irn-Bru** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:26 pm

I come from an almost stereotypical Washingtonian background: my dad was born and raised in Falls Church, VA; and I was born and raised in Lanham, Maryland. Around those parts of town football is the only pro sport worth watching, and my dad was raised a Skins fan (and so I inhereted a lucky family loyalty).

CHAZZ777 · Post by **CHAZZ777** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:46 pm

I GREW UP 4 BLOCKS AWAY FROM RFK .....WE WOULD WATCH THE GAME IN OUR BACK YARD WITH THE TV SOUND DOWN AND REDSKINS RADIO ON THE ROAR FROM RFK IN THE AIR AND THE GOODYEAR BLIMP FLYING OVERHEAD.....MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD WAS THE ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEBATE WITH THE COWGIRL FANS...I NEVER UNDERSTOOD HOW SOMEONE THAT HAVE NEVER LEFT THE METRO AREA COULD NOT SUPPORT THE REDSKINS......SUPPORT YOUR HOME TEAM !!!!!!!!!!!!
HTTR

NJ SKINSFAN · Post by **NJ SKINSFAN** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:47 pm

My father was stationed at Andrews air force base in 1969, a friend took him to RFK. He was a fan eversince and the rest is history.

Redskin006 · Post by **Redskin006** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:21 pm

When i was about 8 or 9 years old my friend introduced me to the redskins. i got hooked. there's just something about the redskins. im sure u all know. plus my sister is a cowboys fan so that fuels me even more to love the redskins!!!

GibbSkins · Post by **GibbSkins** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:28 pm

i grew up in Carlisle Pa. and ust to go watch the skins pratice at dickison collage.my first time i was about 7 years old( im now 36 ) and myself and my brothers walked to the pratice feild by our selfs and i got to watch them pratice..i had a bunch of autograph from the players back then but as i moved around alot over the years i have lost all of them..it was always a great time in the area when the skins came to town...not to mention it was great for the local economy...when i was old enough to drink and ust to hang out in the Gingerbread man ( a downtown Carlisle bar ) the skins would come in and have a few drinks it was always a great time..except it was harder to get laid when they were in the bar cuse all the chicks flocked to them...knda a double edge sword..

...i no longer live there but am saddend that gibbs isnt bringing them back there to pratice...
when gibbs left i was crushed...and the team has been in diseray ever since..i have put up with nothing but browl beatings from all my freinds..non of whom are skins fans where i live in the poconos Pa. there all either philly,steelers or giants fans..i never thought gibbs would come back...but since he has the browl beatings are not as harsh as they have been...im proud to be a life long skins fan skins fan..through thick and thin!!!!!!

andyjens89 · Post by **andyjens89** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:41 pm

I was born with Skin in my blood!!! $\:D/$

skinz74 · Post by **skinz74** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:55 pm

That one's easy...because I hated the cowboys...it just seemed logical. Oh, and not to mention a Redskin/cowpie game was the first one I ever watched (age 9.) I loved watching Theismann and Diesel, the Hogs, etc. Love @ first site...

I'm the only one in my whole family that likes the Redskins and no one can figure out why.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:06 pm

Mo-Hog wrote:

My father was a redskin fan,We lived in DC.
I became a fan the year Sammy Baugh retired.
(1952).
I just wonder if anyone can tell me who replaced him as the starting QB?
That is a Question you can stump alot of people with.

I was born in 1948, at old Garfield Hospital, which was along the third-base side of Griffith Stadium. Third-generation Washingtonian. Rooting for the Redskins and Senators was automatic, win or lose. Even when the Colts became really good, in the late '50's.

I was not quite old enough to know about Sammy Baugh when he was playing, but I think he was replaced by Eddie Lebaron, the little general. The only early-50's QB's I know of are Lebaron, the U of Maryland's Jack Scarbath, and Al Dorrow. Scarbath never made it. I remember (guess?) that Lebaraon and Dorrow alternated...Lebaron was drafted and did a couple of years in the Army at the end of the Korean War.

So, Mo-Hog, who was it?

treehouz2 · Post by **treehouz2** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:20 am

first time I ever laid my eyes on a footballgame it was Washington and Miami, of course i picked Washington, 25 years later Im still a fan HTTR

skin_to_the_bone · Post by **skin_to_the_bone** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:28 am

I guess I was born with a vision :lol:

I loved that they played for the Nation's Capital, My father was a history teacher so I think that all played into it. The weird thing is he is a huge Cowboy's fan. We agree on every sport BUT Football. It actually made us very close, because we grew to respect one another's opinions becaue of the other sports we agreed on.

My earliest memories of the skins was The ending of George Allen coaching Career. Riggons, the Smurfs, Mark Mosely, and the when Gibbs first came over from San Diego's Air Corriel Offense. The Hogs were amazing, Dexter Manley and Cherles Mann, Monk, Clark, Sanders (Ricky not Deion :lol:

)Theisman, Marshall, Schreoder, Warren, wow I could go on.

Oh how we've seen so much since then lots of ups and lots of downs. The best thing that happened after Gibbs retired was his return. Man its gonna be a wild ride. And either way it pans out I will always love to be a Skins Fan.

Fight For Ole' DC!!!!!

SkinsChic · Post by **SkinsChic** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:22 am

Born with Burgandy & Gold Blood....no chance to be any other fan.

tazlah · Post by **tazlah** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:38 am

I fell in love with a Redskins Fanatic! Since I knew nothing about football, other than the guys wore tight pants and the game took forever to play (!), he had the chance to groom a new Redskins fan from "birth"!

taz

Britskin · Post by **Britskin** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:12 am

Watching the Theissman,Riggins,Monk team play hard nosed Championship football. They were the real deal and were coached by the real deal,Coach Gibbs.

oafusp · Post by **oafusp** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:49 am

...burp...I was truamatized into a Redskin fan.

When I was a piglet my parents would have Redskin parties every Sunday. Their friends would be over eating chili, drinking beer, next to the fire place, watching THE GAME.

But, the room was gated off to keep the me and my little brother from crashing the party with our toys and whining (we were too little to pay attention to football). Well, I was old enough to realize that something on the other side of the gate was good stuff, so I would sit against the gate and listen. I could hear Frank on the radio, "Touch Down, Washington Redsins!!!" And the buzzed adults would erupt in cheers.

Finally, I was spotted peering into the room with sincere interest, and like all true Skins fans....I was welcomed into the festivities.

The rest is history....and I have surpassed all of them as a Skin fan. I showed them the next level, but they could not handle it.

-cheers -drinking

daddywatson · Post by **daddywatson** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:18 pm

I was 7 yrs. old and always liked football. Happened to catch a Redskins game on(didn't happen very often living in the Pacific Northwest.) I guess it was the helmet and the colors. They won that day and that was all it took. Redskins fan for life!!!!

HTTR

DG28 · Post by **DG28** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:26 pm

Born and raised in DC always reppin the home team. Born into a Redskins family too heh.

~one~

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